Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Dr. Tracy Gaudet joins James Maskell live at the IFM Annual Conference to discuss whole health, the patient-practitioner relationship, the risks of paradigm "veneers," and the new Doctorate in Whole Health Leadership transforming healthcare from the inside out.


- About the Guest

Dr. Tracy Gaudet is a physician and national leader in whole health transformation, best known for spearheading the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Whole Health System — one of the largest whole-person healthcare transformation efforts in the country. She helped design and now teaches in the first Doctorate in Whole Health Leadership program at Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU), training clinicians, administrators, and educators to lead system-wide transformation toward humanized, whole-person care. Tracy's work centers on shifting healthcare conversations from disease and diagnosis to purpose and meaning as the true foundation of lasting behavior change.

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