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Dr Tania Dempsey

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Dr. Tania Dempsey, MD, ABIHM is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Integrative and Holistic Medicine. She received her MD degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and her BS degree from Cornell University. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at New York University Medical Center.

In 2011, she founded her own Integrative medicine practice which has evolved into the AIM Center for Personalized Medicine, a destination Medical Center in Purchase, NY, focusing on complex, multi-system diseases. Dr. Dempsey is a leading expert in Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Dysautonomia, ME/CFS, Tick-Borne Infections and Autoimmunity. She is a newly elected member of the Board of Directors of ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society), a faculty member of the ILADS Vector-Borne Illness Fundamentals course, and a frequent presenter at their annual conferences. She is also a member of the U.S. ME/CFS Clinician Coalition, the American Academy of Ozonotherapy, and the American College of Physicians.

She is an accomplished international speaker, writer and thought leader. She is well published in the medical literature on topics related the MCAS and was a co-author of a chapter titled “Urogynecology and Hypermobility” in the 2020 book, Disjointed Navigating the Diagnosis and Management of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders. She was involved in a research study in collaboration with the TILT team at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio which led to the publication: Mast cell activation may explain many cases of chemical intolerance. She is also a co-author on the groundbreaking paper, Diagnosis of mast cell activation syndrome: a global "consensus-2". Her most recent paper from August 2023 is titled: Learned cautions regarding antibody testing in mast cell activation syndrome.

May 16, 2024

98. Environmental Triggers of Mast Cell Disease with Tania Dempsey, MD

*Please note that I misspoke during the introduction saying ME/CSF rather than ME/CFS. "CSF" is pretty hard wired in my brain after years and years as an anesthesiologist. Thank you for your understanding. Dr. Tania Dempse...

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Jan. 11, 2024

85. Making a MCAS Documentary with Drs. Weinstock, Dempsey, Bluestein…

The Bendy Bodies with the Hypermobility MD podcast episode unfolds a substantive conversation among esteemed healthcare professionals actively engaged in a comprehensive initiative centered around Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Dysautonomia, and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (HSD). This multifaceted endeavor encompasses …

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