Meet your lifestyle, functional & weight-loss physician

Meet Dr. Aubre A. Weber

Dr. Aubre Weber is a triple board-certified physician. She carries board certifications in Internal Medicine, Obesity/Metabolic Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine. In addition, Dr. Weber is also a trained functional medicine physician through the IFM.

Dr. Weber explains why she is passionate about this field of medicine:

I started my medical journey as a traditionally trained physician in a busy hospital trauma center.  After graduating from my residency, I joined another hospital trauma center as an attending academic hospitalist leading a team of resident physicians and medical students that was responsible for admitting and treating severely sick patients into the hospital. These were patients who’s medical situations had gone off the rails for various different reasons. I had the opportunity to step in when people were acutely ill, required immediate hospitalization and often could help the patient contain and even reverse a potentially fatal medical situation.

It was demanding, intense, required complex medical knowledge including ICU protocols and management, constant meticulous review and understanding of daily testing of all different types, procedures done at the patient’s bedside, supplement and medication review in a fast and clear manner and most of all, I found myself delivering all of this complex news to a bewildered patient and understandably upset group of family members.  They frequently had little insight as to how this all happened and more often than not would leave the hospital with my instructions only to have it happen all over again a month or two later.

I knew how to treat an acutely ill patient, but I wanted my patients to leave the hospital knowing how to prevent it, how to learn from it and not come back. I was the physician they didn’t want to have to need. These years were some of my toughest years as a physician. They taught me a lot about what was missing for these patients and why these patients continued to come back to the hospital. I realized that I loved hearing my patient’s stories. I would spend hours at my patient’s bedside talking with them and their family members. I learned a lot during these conversations and many times it changed my medical  management. I knew I needed to make a difference earlier, I needed more time to get to know my patients and their families.  

But, I couldn’t do this in the hospital. The hospital is a place for acute medical care, not a stop for a long, in-depth medical relationship that understands you from birth to current. At the time, I was also a new mom and going through some significant health issues with my two daughters. Watching my daughters’ health journeys combined with my experience with my hospitalized patients, I kept finding that traditional medicine wasn’t enough and was falling short for my loved ones and my patients. Not everyone’s medical care or ailments can be identified and treated in an acute hospital visit or a 15-45 minute outpatient traditional medical visit.

With this in mind, I decided to expand my training to incorporate lifestyle, obesity/metabolic and functional medicine because I found the gross majority of our lives are made up of thousands of small decisions around lifestyle which may or may not lead to chronic conditions such as cardiovascular compromise, autoimmune disease, obesity and/or metabolic derangements (including cancer) ultimately needing a deep, intense, foundational knowledge of internal medicine with an arsenal of not only traditional but functional medicine to treat and most importantly prevent unnecessary medication, medical visits and worst of all, hospitalizations and death.  

I am a mother to two daughters with special needs. I am a daughter, a granddaughter, a daughter-in-law, a sister, a sister-in-law, a pet mom, a wife, a physician. I have seen and experienced many medical journeys in my professional and personal life which have enriched my professional understanding. As I live and walk side by side my family members, my patients, I have seen first hand the shortcomings and the accomplishments of modern traditional medicine.

Traditional medicine is not the enemy as so many would have you believe.  However, there needs to be room for the alternative medicine that was there before our hardened traditional pharmaceutical and surgical landscape arrived.  There needs to be a space for the methods that are up and coming, alternative methods that continue to flourish, and soon to translate into new evidence-based medicine for the future.  Medicine that can take evidence-based techniques of today, add in the past where needed and incorporate the future to further optimize is the best kind of medicine.  It is inclusive, leaves no stone unturned and provides a deeper patient medical journey that leads to a well-understood patient.

For many years now, I have been driven to dive deeper. To dig further. To find the “why”, to find the root cause, to thoroughly understand, and not just treat symptoms. Treating symptoms is what I did in the hospital and although it stopped tragedy more often times than not, it was frequently a temporary fix and certainly didn’t find the root cause, the why.

When you have a precise understanding of the “why”, that is a powerful place to be. From there, you can accurately treat the cause with both traditional and non-traditional medicine, you can cure that which has been elusive without stopping there, but instead go further and truly optimize. It is through this methodology that you can live your best and healthiest life. 

I hope to bring my experience to you, to help you through my specialized focus on Lifestyle, Functional and Obesity Medicine. It is now more important than ever.