Speaker

DR PATRICK HANAWAY, MD is a board-certified family physician trained at Washington University. Dr. Hanaway served on the Executive Committee for the American Board of Integrative Medicine and is Past President of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. For more than 25 years he was worked with his wife, Dr. Lisa Lichtig, in clinical practice @ Family to Family: Your Home for Whole Health Care in Asheville, NC. 

After 10 years as Chief Medical Officer at Genova Diagnostics, Dr. Hanaway became the Chief Medical Education Officer for the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) where he oversaw the development and implementation of IFM’s programs worldwide, while leading the GI Advanced Practice Module.

In 2014, Dr. Hanaway worked with Dr. Mark Hyman to develop the collaboration between IFM and the Cleveland Clinic, where he was the founding Medical Director, then Research Director. 

The primary focus of Dr. Hanaway’s work is to leverage his skills and perspective to add value in healthcare organizations, through education, research and clinical care, particularly in the areas of nutrition and the microbiome. 

In 2018, Dr. Hanaway was diagnosed with Stage IV Laryngeal Cancer. His life has been transformed through a functional and integrative approach in concert with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, community support, ‘forest-bathing’ and prayer. ‘No Evidence of Disease’ is considered a cure, though life continues to be filled with uncertainty.

Importantly, Dr. Hanaway was initiated in 2009 as a Mara’akame [indigenous healer] by the Wixarika [Huichol] people of the Sierra Madres in Mexico. He is chairperson of the Blue Deer Center in upstate NY. Patrick holds community fires, leads ceremonies and pilgrimage to sacred sites, and offers traditional healing sessions ‘around the fire’ at the Sacred Fire Council House in Weaverville, NC.

Dr Patrick Hanaway will be speaking in the Advanced practitioner Conference taking place on Saturday 20th June 2026. The full conference programmes will be announced in February 2026.