Hello and welcome to the Brooklyn, NY Functional Forum!  My name is Valery Greene and I host this Forum and three others: Washington DC, Hoboken, NJ, and Westchester, NY.  I look forward to meeting you and becoming a valuable resource for the functional medicine community in Brooklyn and surrounding areas.  

My parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents all hail from Brooklyn, so I feel especially lucky - and very at home - in this community. 

I have worked in the medical field for the past twenty years as an educator, writer, event manager, and currently Medical Sales Manager for Gaia PRO, the healthcare practitioner division of Gaia Herbs. Additionally, I produce our healthcare practitioner education program, which focuses on natural, functional, and herbal medicine. 

I have lived in the NY metropolitan area my entire life. I currently reside in Monmouth County, NJ with my husband and our 18-year-old identical twin sons, who are leaving for college very shortly and causing me a wealth of emotions.  :-(

I am a passionate people person and ‘connector’ whose interests include nutrition and cooking, genetics, the calmness of the beach, the hustle and bustle of the city, and a really good book.

In addition to the offerings on this website, and with the generosity of our sponsor, Gaia Herbs, I plan to host four events each year.  Our first live event will be held this fall, please be sure to join this community and be the first to hear about it. 

I'm very excited to grow this Functional Forum community where I can connect practitioners and patients alike. Thank you for being here and thank you for doing the hard work you do. I can’t wait to meet you!

In addition to the offerings on this website, and with the generosity of our sponsor, Gaia Herbs, I plan to host four events each year.  Our first live event will be held this fall, please be sure to join this community and be the first to hear about it. 

Thank you for being here and thank you for doing the hard work you do. I look forward to accomplishing great things together!

Healthcare practitioners and clinicians, you are not alone.

Since 2014, the Functional Forum has been the place where like minded healthcare professionals have come together to learn, build their communities and enhance patient care and practice management. As a branch of the Functional Forum, our community provides a space for functional integrative healthcare professionals from all disciplines to thrive and catalyze the transformation of medicine.

Clinicians join this community so they can meet like minded practitioners and:

• Gain trustworthy referrals
• Expand their clinical toolboxes with exclusive resources and information
• Brainstorm with peers on patient cases
• Gain access to thought leaders in the industry
• Connect with new patients
• Learn best practices for running a modern practice

Who can become a member?

This is an inclusive community of health professionals passionate about root-cause care.

• Conventionally trained practitioners interested in functional integrative medicine
• Generalists (primary care, family medicine)
• Integrative Medicine (chiropractors, acupuncturists, physical therapists, dentists)
• Specialists (psychiatrist, pediatrician, cardiologist, etc.)
• Food focused practitioners (registered dieticians, nutritionists)
• Lifestyle medicine, precision medicine and naturopathic medicine practitioners
• Health coaches
• Medical stakeholders
• Digital health entrepreneurs

“Building local communities of integrative practitioners around the world is the most important next step for the reinvention of medicine” 

- James Maskell, Founder of the Functional Forum

Questions? Contact your local host, Valery Greene.

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