Hyla Cass, MD

Hyla Cass, MD is a nationally acclaimed physician, board-certified psychiatrist, and one of the country’s foremost authors and experts on the subject of integrative medicine. She combines the best of leading-edge natural medicine with modern science in her more than 20-year clinical practice, writings, lectures, and nationwide media appearances.

Quoted widely in newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, and People Magazine, she also appears regularly on radio and television, including The View, E!Entertainment, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and MSNBC. She is the author of several popular books including User’s Guide to Herbal Remedies, St. John’s Wort: Nature’s Blues Buster, Natural Highs, 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health, and her latest, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutrition.

Dr. Cass also maintains a busy schedule of speaking engagements around the country, with topics ranging from complementary medicine and psychiatry, anti-aging, women’s health (including natural hormone therapy), weight management, to stress reduction, and natural treatments for addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression.

Dr. Cass would love to see a more natural approach to treating mental disorders emerge in the field of psychiatry over the course of the next 10 years.  “In my practice of integrative psychiatry, I look for the root cause, treat as naturally as possible and use drugs very sparingly and only as a last resort.”Says Dr. Cass, who maintains that looking for nutritional deficiencies, toxicity (heavy metals, pesticides, and other chemicals), hormonal imbalances, or infections can show up as psychiatric conditions but are in fact fully treatable by removing the source of the problem rather than trying to cover up the symptoms with medication.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Dr. Cass obtained her pre-medical and medical education from the University of Toronto School of Medicine. Her residency training was completed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she then served as an attending staff physician for 10 years. In addition to her current work as an integrative medical practitioner, Dr. Cass served for over 20 years as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine. She also is a Board Advisor for the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM); Advisory Board member at Taste for Life Magazine and Medical Editor at Total Health Magazine.   When asked about her participation in our symposium, Dr. Cass responded by saying “Beauty is an inside job.  The right diet, nutritional supplements, bio-identical hormones when needed, exercise and other lifestyle elements will create and maintain beauty from the inside.”