Sheila A Patel MD

Summary

• Dr. Sheila Patel is a board-certified Family Medicine physician based in Vista, CA, with a subspecialty in Ayurvedic Medicine. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at Ventura County Medical Center after graduating from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health. Dr. Patel has served as a Clinical Preceptor in Ambulatory Care and Clinical Instructor in Integrative Medicine at UCSD's Department of Family and Preventive Medicine since 2011 and has been a physician at Melissa Hurd Medical Corp practicing outpatient family medicine since 2010. Previously, she practiced full-spectrum family medicine for 12 years in rural AK and WI. She was also the Medical Director at the Mind Body Medical Group from 2010 to 2019 providing integrative medical consultations, and was Chief Medical Officer of Chopra Global until 2023. Her expertise extends to creating wellbeing using Ayurvedic medicine as well as understanding the mechanisms of action of mind-body therapies. Dr. Patel has authored multiple publications, including those on meditation and heart rate variability, ayurvedic diagnostics, and mind-body health. Her work has been cited in various publications.