Meet Dr. Lauren Swerdloff

Combining conventional medicine with nutrition, herbs, homeopathy,

and other alternative approaches to problems in the interest of

improving the quality and the longevity of my patient’s lives. 

After completing my Bachelor’s degree in Art, I returned to school for a second Bachelor’s degree in Biology and my MD degree and Family Practice Board Certification. After more years of training I am also board certified in Anti-Aging Medicine, and Nutrient Medicine and a Fellow in hormonal therapies. I am fluent in English and Spanish and speak some French.

My extensive and varied training background allows me to approach patients with an open mind and be truly integrative in partnership with my patients to help heal them, improve their quality of life, and prevent illness.

My goal is to use my Knowledge, Clinical Skills, and Intuition to integrate Conventional and Alternative strategies in the field of Healthy Aging, to prevent and reverse the devastating and debilitating effects of aging for all members of the family.

Patient Testimonials

I focus primarily on wellness rather than dis-ease.

Dis-ease is a state of being to be prevented, 

if it has already occurred, then the problem is to be investigated and solved.

DR. SWERDLOFF HAS RECEIVED THE PATIENT’S CHOICE AWARD in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016 and COMPASSIONATE DOCTOR AWARD in 2009
Awarded by: MDX Medical

Every month, more than 40,000 patients across the U.S. provide online feedback about their experiences with their doctors. They rate various components such as bedside manner, doctor-patient face time degree of follow-up, courtesy of office staff, and overall opinions.

While physicians generally receive positive reviews from their patients, only a select few receive uniformly rave reviews with near perfect scores, like Dr. Swerdloff did. In fact, of the nation’s 720,000 active physicians, less than 5% were accorded this honor by their patients.

Dr. Swerdloff is, indeed, the Patients’ Choice; one of the physicians most highly regarded by their patients.

My goal is to provide excellent quality health at the most reasonable price I am able to. The health care I offer is individualized toward each patients needs. I integrate both the latest conventional (allopathic) and alternative approaches to preventive and therapeutic medicine. I would like to help my patients find the “Joie de Vivre” that will enable them to live more vital, healthier, and longer lives.

I am open to using nutritional supplements, acupuncture, homeopathy, herbs, intravenous treatments, bio-energetic mind-body medicine, and spiritual techniques.

I work with adult and children patients who have hormone imbalances, fatigue, nutritional, and energy deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, gut disturbances, and environmental illnesses and autism spectrum disorders.  Assist them in living longer and healthier lives with quality and vitality.

My office is a calm, supportive, and comfortable environment designed to promote healing during times of difficulty and stress to support spiritual and emotional healing. We have developed protocols for complex medical issues such as environmental illness, chronic fatigue syndrome, bowel disorders, cancer, and viral illness. Because the dynamic nature of medicine and our culture, we are continually researching new therapies and are a clinical model to determine the effectiveness of non-conventional therapies.

Certifications

• Board Certified Family Physician, by American Board of Family Practice,
  • • 1991, 1997 & 2003, 2013
    • ACLS, BCLS Certified 2006, 2013
• Fellow in Hormone Therapy by the International Hormone Society, 2012
• Diplomat in Nutritional Medicine from the World Society of Anti-Aging Medicine “With Great Distinction,” 2009
• Diplomat in Anti Aging Medicine from the World Society of Anti-Aging Medicine “With Great Distinction,” 2008
• Diplomat Eligible American Board of Anti-Aging Regenerative Medicine 2008

 

Dr Swerdloff has an unusual gift, her experience, open mind, and insight allow her to address health problems that are usually difficult to resolve and enable her to help her patients heal. She accomplishes this by approaching each patient as an individual with a unique set of circumstances creating the current situation and as she listens to the patient she begins to unravel and uncover the variables to help the patient solve the equation equaling better health through nutrition, a full complement of bio-identical/natural hormones, detoxification, Homeopathy, and exercise. Integrating and blending conventional and alternative techniques she pays attention to the mind, body, and the spirit in her approach and solutions.

What patients really like best about Dr. Swerdloff is that she listens to them, she hears what they are saying and asking.   If you ask her she will say she learned it from her mother who was a phenomenal listener.  That upbringing combined with her extensive training in conventional medicine, hormones, prevention, alternative therapies, nutrition, and Anti-Aging medicine and an open mind allows her to draw upon a wide range of possibilities for optimizing health.

When she was 17 years old Dr. Swerdloff’s new puppy was found to have a disabling type of arthritis and she was told he needed to have expensive surgeries to insure that he would be able to walk again.  Back then surgery on dogs was not so common or accepted as it is today and not within her families means.  So when another dog owner whose own dog had failed the surgery and was destined to using a cart to move his rear end, suggested an experimental program for acupuncture on dogs as a free alternative.  Dr. Swerdloff brought her dog limping in and watched as he limped in and walked out week after week for about three months.  When the dog stopped limping and lived for nearly 15 years without limping, Dr. Swerdloff knew that there was something to Acupuncture beyond placebo that helped heal her puppy.

After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Art she followed the Universities Student health center’s Doctor to his new private acupuncture practice.  She experienced first hand the benefits her old dog had felt so many years before.  She returned to school for a second Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a plan to go to medical school followed by acupuncture school.

Ten years later, after many acupuncture treatments her MD degree and Family Practice Board Certification behind her, she decided not to continue on to acupuncture school but chose to refer instead.  Her own experiences with allopathic medicine’s misdiagnosis and delayed treatment of a common hormonal imbalance nearly left her childless and debilitated.  Her searches for answers for her own recovery lead her to explore alternative medical treatments and bio-identical hormone replacement.  And finally to the physician whose great grandfather discovered how to treat hypothyroidism.  After more years of training she is now also board certified in Anti-Aging Medicine, Nutrient Medicine.  Currently she continues her studies as a fellow in hormonal therapies.

Her extensive and varied training background allows her to approach patients with an open mind and she is truly integrative as she works in partnership with her patients to help heal them, improve their quality of life, and prevent illness.

Along the way she was introduced to the use of Thermography as a no radiation adjunctive scanning technique for Breast cancer prevention and treatment monitoring as well as for many other conditions.

 

Dr. Swerdloff’s Curriculum Vitae

Training

• Internship Los Angeles County King/Drew Medical Center, Family Medicine 1988-1989
• Residency Los Angeles County King/Drew Medical Center, Family Medicine 1989-1991
• Fellowship in Hormone Therapies, International Hormone Society 2008-2012

Education

• Medical Doctorate, University Of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. 1988
• BA Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. 1983
• BA Art, University Of California, Santa Cruz. 1978

Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor Family Practice Medicine 1991 to 2005. Los Angeles County, King/Drew Medical Center Los Angeles, Ca

Employment:
Private Practice

• Integrative Medicine/Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging. 1821 Wilshire Blvd. Suite # 220 Santa Monica, CA 90403
  09/01-Present
• Valley Urgent Care. 9346 Corbin Northridge, CA 91324
  9/01 to present
• Urgent Care/Occupational/Family Medicine
  5/00 to present
• Cynthia Watson MD, Integrative Medicine
  530 Wilshire Blvd. #203 Santa Monica CA 90401
  9/00 to 9/01
• Motion Picture & Television Fund. 23388 Mulholland Drive, WH CA  91364
• Occupational/Family Medicine/Urgent Care
  3/00 to 08
• Clinica Latina. 4316 E Slauson Av., Maywood CA 90270
• Family Medicine/Urgent Care
  2/00 to 10/00
• Ocean View Medical Group Pritikin Longevity Center. Weight loss and Lifestyle changing medicine. 1700 Ocean Ave. SM, CA 90401
  10/99 to 8/01
• Kushner and Associates Family Medicine. 2865 Atlantic Blvd. Ste#207 LB, CA 90806
  9/95 to 10/99
• Doctors on Duty, Urgent Care. 1910 N Capitol Av. San Jose, CA  95132
  1993
• Centinela Medical Center, Family Practice and Urgent Care. Manhattan Beach, Fox Hills
  1992 to present
• Avalon Hospital, Family Practice and Urgent Care. Catalina Island
  1992 to 1993
• Western Medical Group, Urgent Care. Palmdale, California
  1992 to 1993
• Bayshores Medical Group, Urgent Care. Redondo Beach
  1992
• Los Angeles County King/Drew Medical Center, Associate Professor Family Medicine
  Los Angeles, CA
  1991 to 2008
• California Medical Center, Urgent Care.
  Los Angeles, CA
  1990 to 1996
• Stanford University, School of Medicine, Lab Technician. Palo Alto, CA
  1984
• University Of California, Santa Cruz, Lab Assistant, Division of Microbiology. Santa Cruz, CA.
  1982
• University of California, Santa Cruz, Teaching Assistant, Dynamics of Infection, Cardiovascular Disease and Health
  1982-1983

Hospital Affiliations:

• St. John’s Health Center, 2000 to 2007
• Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, 2000 to 2007
• Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Provisional Privileges, 1995 to 1999
• Daniel Freeman Medical Center, Temporary, 1994 to 1999
• Centinela Medical Center, Temporary, 1992 to 1996
• California Medical Center, Limited, 1990 to 1997
• Los Angeles County King/Drew Medical Center, Active Staff, 1988 to 2005

 

Professional Organizations:

• International Hormone Society; 2007
• World Society of Anti-Aging Medicine; 2007
• American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine; 2007
• American Society of Clinical Hypnosis 1991
• American Board of Family Practice; 1988
• American Medical Association; 1987
• California Medical Association; 1987
• California Academy of Family Physicians, 1986
• American Association for the Advancement of Science; 1986
• American Medical Women’s Association; 1985
• American Medical Student’s Association 1984-1988

Achievements and Scholarships:

Residency

• Outstanding Resident Service, 1989-1991

Medical School

• Head/Neck Surgery Honors
• Student Research Fellowship, 1987
• Student Research Fellowship, 1986

Research:

• Investigation of the Influence of Opioidpeptides on Lymphocyte Function; USC Dept. of Neurology, Dr. Leslie Weiner; 1986
• Analysis of the Cell Specificity of Beta-endorphin influence on Lymphocyte Function; Gilmore, Swerdloff, Weiner, USC Dept. of Neurology; 1985.
• Investigation of the Effects of Electrical Stimulation on the Marine Host vs. graft response in-vivo; UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Immunology, Dr. Hilgard, 1982

Highlight Activities:

• Residency:  Director of Grand Rounds, 1989-91
• Medical School: Flying Doctors of Australia, 1988
• Family Practice Club; 1984-1988
• Hospitality Health Clinic; 1987
• Sierra Club, since 1987
• Health Center Recommendations Committee; 1987
• USC School of Medicine Yearbook Committee; 1985-6
• USC School of Medicine Psychiatry Club; 1984-86
• University: Santa Cruz County Fair award for Sculpture, 1981
• Exhibited Art in the Director’s Guild of America Art Show; 1980
• Retrospective Debut, an art exhibit by Lauren Swerdloff, 1978
• Exhibited artwork in a show entitled clay, 1977

 

Lauren Ciel Swerdloff MD Medical Corporation Inc.

DITI Functional Imaging of Santa Monica, an ACCT Approved Thermography Clinic

1821 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 220. Santa Monica, CA 90403

(310) 829-5189 | [email protected]