Episode 11: Dr. Ashley Maltz

Jane Q. Public

In this episode of the podQast, Q talks with her friend Dr. Ashley Maltz about family, identity, and what drew her to establish her own integrative medicine practice in Austin, Texas.

Find Dr. Maltz online:

• Dr. Ashley Maltz MD
• West Holistic Medicine in Austin, Texas

On social media:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Linkedin

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After Dr. Maltz earned a Medical Degree and Master in Public Health from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, TX, she completed a combined Internal and Preventive Medicine Residency at UTMB. She then pursued and completed a 2-year clinical Integrative Medicine Fellowship at Stamford Hospital, in Stamford, Connecticut.

During her Fellowship, she underwent clinical training in Medical Acupuncture, trigger point injections, meditation, spirituality, clinical nutrition, mind-body therapies, botanicals and herbs, as well as an intensive 1000-hour online curriculum created by The University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Program founded by Dr. Andrew Weil. During this time, she also completed a 300-hour Medical Acupuncture course through the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate.

Dr. Maltz's specific interests include helping her patients improve their health through lifestyle interventions including, but not limited to, eastern medical practices, nutrition, botanicals, mind-body techniques and decreasing environmental exposures.

She is passionate about social justice, environmental restoration and creating healthful lifestyle change for patients and healthcare workers alike. In August 2016, she hosted an advocacy event at the Texas State Capital to bring awareness to the epidemic of medical student and physician suicide and in September, 2017, she joined a virtual rescue operation in SE Texas for Hurricane Harvey relief work.

Earlier that year, she founded the Austin Wellness Collaborative, a 2000-participant Facebook group for health and wellness professional collaboration in the Texas Hill Country. It is a robust organization serving residents of Central Texas.