Ronald D. Whitmont, MD is a second-generation homeopathic physician practicing in Rhinebeck, New York. He was raised in Westchester County, New York in a Jungian-Gestalt, Judeo-Christian-Anthroposophical household where he was exposed to Yoga, T’ai Chi, and meditation from an early age.
Ronald graduated from Hampshire College where he studied biology and psychology, and received his doctorate in medicine at SUNY Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn. He completed his medical internship and residency training at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, New York and the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in West Reading, Pennsylvania. He was board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABIHM).
He has worked extensively in medical clinics both in rural India, and at the Pine Ridge Indian Health Service Hospital in rural South Dakota. He is a US Navy veteran, former president of the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), and the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (HMSSNY). He served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at New York Medical College where he taught 3rd and 4thyear medical students the essentials of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine (CAIM).
Ronald is currently president of the National Homeopathic Product Certification Board (NHPCB), a trustee of the AIH, and medical advisor to the consumer action group Americans for Homeopathy Choice (AFHC). He has lectured and published extensively in the US and abroad on a broad range of health topics including homeopathy, Lyme Disease, lifestyle medicine, and the human microbiome. He is an avid devotee of organic, biodynamic and sustainable community-based agriculture.
