Heather Pickett DO

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Display name	Heather Pickett DO
First name	Heather
Last name	Pickett
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Bio	Heather is a retired Air Force Colonel Family Physician who graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1988 and the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1992. She completed a General Surgery internship at Wright State University in 1993 and then a Family Medicine residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2001. Dr. Pickett started out in rural medicine for a year, as the lone doctor on a 2X4 mile island in the middle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. She was then sent to Edwards Air Force Base in California as a flight surgeon where she worked with the US Air Force Test Pilot School flying in numerous aircraft and was the Commander of the Space Shuttle Medical Recovery Team. Her progressive program in occupational medicine at Edwards AFB, won her the prestigious “Air Force Flight Surgeon of the Year” award in 1998. She also received the “NASA Space Flight Awareness Dept. of Defense Honoree” award. After her family medicine residency, she moved to Germany where she practiced full scope family medicine and aviation medicine. The last 10 years of her career were spent teaching as full-time faculty for the St. Louis University/Scott AFB Family Medicine Residency and the Nellis Air Force Base Family Medicine Residency in Las Vegas. She has been an Assistant Professor with the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Las Vegas, and the University of Nevada School of Medicine. She completed a Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2008. As an osteopathic physician who has been using her manual medicine skills throughout her career, she was one of the first Air Force Physicians in 2005 trained in Medical Acupuncture through the renown Helms Medical Institute Physician Acupuncture Program affiliated with UCLA and Stanford University. She has taught acupuncture techniques across the US, UK, and as part of the first Department of Defense/VA ‘Battlefield Acupuncture’ program. She is Board Certified and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Family Physicians and American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. She has had numerous publications, presentations and research related to family and integrative medicine. After AF retirement in 2013 she worked in the Pain Management clinic through the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Medical Center. There she performed medical acupuncture and osteopathic manipulative medicine to a wide range of patients with pain and mental health issues. In July 2018 she became the Medical Director for the Prime Meridian Health Flagship clinic in Pleasant Grove, Utah where she practices full scope Integrated Family Medicine for the DoTERRA International employees, their families and the community. Spanish is her 2nd language and she has participated in medical missions to Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Ecuador, Russia, South Africa, the Middle East and Guatemala. For the last 2.5 years she has been utilizing the low carbohydrate lifestyle with herself and her patients with tremendous success.
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