Dr. Aaron Hartman, MD - Richmond Integrative & Functional Medicine - Finding Hope In The Uncurable

Dr. Aaron Hartman, MD is a board-certified physician, clinical researcher, and founder of Richmond Integrative & Functional Medicine ( https://richmondfunctionalmedicine.com/ ). 

Trained in conventional family medicine, Dr. Hartman earned his MD from the Medical College of Virginia and served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force, where he led medical clinics in both the United States and Europe and received additional training in cardiology, dermatology, and nuclear and biological warfare medicine.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Hartman has participated in more than 70 clinical trials, published research including work in The Lancet, and cared for patients across four continents in more than 100,000 clinical encounters. He is triple board-certified, with advanced credentials in integrative, functional, metabolic, regenerative, and anti-aging medicine, and he previously served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Dr. Hartman’s professional focus was profoundly reshaped by a deeply personal experience: adopting his daughter Anna, who was born with severe neurological injury and cerebral palsy and was labeled “incurable” by conventional standards. Her extraordinary progress—achieved through personalized, root-cause, and systems-based approaches to care—became the catalyst for Dr. Hartman’s transition into functional and precision medicine.

Dr. Hartman is the author of the 2025 book Uncurable ( https://www.amazon.com/UnCurable-Hopeless-Diagnosis-Defying-Odds-ebook/dp/B0FWQ21FDV ), which blends memoir, medical critique, and practical strategy to challenge how modern healthcare defines—and limits—healing. In the book, Dr. Hartman argues that many so-called incurable conditions reflect systemic blind spots rather than biological absolutes, and he calls on patients and clinicians alike to rethink personalized care, patient advocacy, and the foundations of health.

Today, Dr. Hartman continues to practice, teach, and research while advocating for a more individualized, curiosity-driven, and human-centered model of medicine—one that treats patients not as protocols, but as complex, exceptional individuals.

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