Generative Health LLC
Dr. Meghan Gonick
Dr. Meghan Gonick believes in the body’s natural ability to heal given the right conditions. However because we are each individuals our needs differ based on our genes, environment, biome (bacteria), stressors, and lifestyle. She seeks to treat each person as the individual they are and tailor their treatment and recommendations for them. She uses her skills as a naturopath and acupuncturist to create and individual treatment plan using: herbs, personalized nutrition, supplements, and Traditional Chinese Medicine to enhance your health and wellbeing.
Dr. Gonick's personal journey in Natural Medicine
Meghan’s journey into complementary medicine began as a child watching her grandmother manage her congestive heart failure using not just medications, but vitamins and exercise. As a teen Meghan was drawn to herbal medicine, which she used to help treat herself and friends. After she left Lancaster for Carnegie Mellon University, she found she was still drawn to herbs and the abilities of the human body. After suspending her studies she became a massage therapist with intentions to continue to study herbal medicine. As a massage, therapist she became interested in Acupuncture and East Asian medicine.
Working as a massage therapist, only increased her desire to study the human body and botanical medicine. She completed her bachelor's at Millersville University, cum laude with a BS in Biology with specialties in Botany, and a minor in Biochemistry. There she worked with the Millersville Herbarium, the Lancaster County Conservancy, and performed research on potentially therapeutic plant constituents. Following her degree, she worked with Native plants before finding Naturopathic Medicine. She attended the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, which allowed her to visit her grandmother and offered an excellent acupuncture program as well as Naturopathy.
Since Meghan has been practicing Naturopathic medicine on herself, she has been able to virtually eliminate her migraines and clear her skin of her lifelong battle with a eczema-like condition known as hyperkeratosis pilaris.
Dr. Gonick's credentials
Meghan graduated summa cum laude from both the University of Bridgeport’s College of Naturopathic Medicine and the University of Bridgeport Acupuncture Institute. During her time at the University, she was a pioneer student in the schools Pathfinder Program, a mentorship program which provides advanced training in the fields of molecular systems biology and computational medicine, and she was mentored by Dr. Peter D’Adamo. She did her rotations in the University clinic, the Center of Excellence in Generative Medicine, Sound Shore hospital (now Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital), Chemical Abuse Services Agency Inc (CASA), AIDS Project Greater Danbury, and Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
Meghan won the University's first scholarship, allowing her a short internship in Shanghai China, where she assisted Dr. Yang in providing acupuncture, moxa, baguan, and other Traditional Chinese Medical treatments to patients, and received advanced clinical training, and the following semester she received the Golden Needle Award for her treatment of patients in the Clinic.
Post Graduation, Dr. Gonick was invited to continued her training with Dr. D’Adamo as a resident and teaching assistant in Generative Medicine, and served as President of the Institute of Naturopathic Generative Medicine. That year she also gave birth to her wonderful daughter. She joined the Center of Excellence as a staff physician and the University of Bridgeport Acupuncture Institute as an adjunct professor and clinical supervisor. Dr. Gonick currently teaches: Botanical Medicine, Laboratory Diagnosis, and Public Health to graduate students in the Acupuncture Institute.
Dr. Gonick holds a Naturopathic physician's license through the state of Conneticut 000542, and Pennsylvannia Acupuncturist license AK001188 as well as her NCCAOM certification.