Under the Sisterhood

Marching for Health: Dr. Maizes on a Lifetime of Integrative Care and Change

Elizabeth Elfenbein Season 5 Episode 3

Today we’re marching for change with Dr. Victoria Maizes a mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, friend and mentor to all women and the Founding Executive Director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and a Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arizona.  She is internationally recognized as a thought leader and innovator in integrative medicine and together with her team at the Center, she created and implemented educational programs that have trained thousands of health professionals and impacted the care of millions of people. 

She is the editor of the Oxford University textbook Integrative Women’s Health and the author of Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child. Her newest book: Heal Faster: Unlock Your Body’s Rapid Recovery Reflex comes out on January 13, 2026. She co-hosts the popular podcast Body of Wonder with Dr Andrew Weil and was named one of the world’s 25 intelligent optimists by ODE magazine. 


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