Dr. Kat Lopez Sankey

A California native, I studied cognitive neuroscience at UC Berkeley, then lived abroad in South America for a year learning about rural jungle medicine. I attended the University of Michigan Medical School and spent an extra year doing integrative cancer research. After entering my family medicine residency at Providence Milwaukie Hospital, I realized that pushing pills and training to see over 20 patients per day in 15 ­minute visits, did not fulfill my deep passion for healing and top­-notch training. So I followed my heart, completed only the first year of my family medicine residency in 2013, and obtained my general medical license.

From 2014 to 2020 I worked very closely with a renowned leader and educator in natural medicine, Dr. Satya Ambrose ND, LAc. It is her great wisdom that has informed my clinical approach; she taught me a great deal of what I know today. Not only did we work side by side in the same clinic, but I reviewed thousands of patient cases with her to learn her approaches. We also taught a number of seminars together over the years. I have attended a variety of naturopathic continuing education seminars, including Dr. Tori Hudson’s Women’s Health Institute, as well as the Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s professional training program (basic and advanced) and Food as Medicine seminars. In 2017 I completed the Osteopathic Cranial Academy's 40-hour course in cranial osteopathy and I am honored to incorporate this approach in my work.