Integrative Primary Care, Cardiology, Functional and Performance Medicine.
A mind-body/functional approach.
Lifestyle medicine and solution-based wellness programs.
Integrative Primary Care, Peak Performance,
and Lifestyle Medicine
Synergy members receive highly personalized care by doctors at the top of their fields
Evidenced-based, proactive (not reactive) primary care with an emphasis on lifestyle-based and holistic management strategies
Focus on prevention, performance, and longevity leveraging cutting-edge tests and imaging to learn more and to guide
our recommendations.
We help you perform at your peak and extend your healthspan.
Acute illness management providing comprehensive care from doctors who know you well
We at Synergy know that lifestyle choices can contribute significantly to prevention and treatment of chronic illnesses.
We look deeply to find and use the most meaningful information across the dimensions of health.
Improving overall lifestyle habits is the first step toward getting and staying healthy.
Comprehensive Cardiology Services
Synergy Private Health offers its members cutting-edge cardiology services including consultations, advanced testing, and medical management
Dr. Parks is a board-certified Cardiologist on the faculty of Mass General Hospital and Newton Wellesley Hospital, and she holds academic appointments at both Harvard and Tufts. She has deep expertise all aspects of Cardiology including preventive care, comprehensive cardiovascular testing, and disease management. She is also an expert in cardiac imaging and related interpretations including the most advanced methods. She can provide integrative cardiology care for Synergy members including testing and management of arrhythmias, heart failure, coronary artery disease, and more.
All our physicians have significant expertise in cardiovascular disease prevention and management including hypertension and hyperlipidemia. We use the most current and comprehensive blood tests available for lipid (cholesterol) and lipoprotein analyses and cardiovascular risk assessment, as well as cutting-edge imaging studies (including CT Calcium Scores, CT Coronary Angiograms, and more). Synergy clinicians pair this data with an integrative approach including plant-forward eating and the full array of lifestyle management tools, in addition to medications when necessary.
Functional Medicine
Synergy members work with their doctor to address the underlying causes of disease and promote optimal wellness
Functional Medicine is a way of working with patients to determine how and why illness occurs and to restore health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual. It requires a detailed understanding of each patient's genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors.
Functional medicine can be particularly helpful to patients interested in treating or improving a multitude of conditions including digestive disorders (including IBS), fatigue, autoimmune disease, thyroid disease including Hashimotos, and most chronic issues.
Our Institute of Functional Medicine-certified practitioners, offer a functional medicine approach integrated with traditional primary care as part of a plan to help prevent or reduce risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders (i.e. dementia), metabolic disease (i.e. diabetes), and cancer. We can perform functional testing including SIBO breath tests, stool and microbiome analysis, food sensitivity, comprehensive thyroid assessments, hormone analysis, and nutritional deficiency screening.
Synergy members have access to health coaching with our lifestyle medicine experts and board certified coaches.
Our in-house health coaching supports members in taking little steps to make big life changes. Skilled coaches work directly and collaboratively with our clinical team to provide more integrative care between you, your coach, and your physician.
The health coaches at Synergy are all highly experienced and National Board-certified or otherwise certified experts in their respective fields. In this collaborative relationship, a coach partners with you to help you create your desired behavioral and habit changes using science-backed lifestyle modification practices for sustained change.
Each member will have an experience tailor-made to their life and circumstances through personal reflections and connecting with your authentic motivation. You won’t have to worry about being given unrealistic or prescriptive “quick fixes” that don’t stick.
Members have access to:
a personal team of coaches with in-person or virtual sessions available
fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle specific coaching
InBody assessments including muscle mass and visceral fat evaluations
coach-curated education resources
mindfulness tools including access to our Somadome, a technology enabled therapeutic pod
Wellness Programs and Culinary Medicine
Synergy members have access to a number of premium wellness offerings including content curated by our industry-leading experts.
The art of food and cooking to create an individualized approach to food choices. There is robust evidence showing that many chronic diseases can be prevented or improved with simple dietary changes. Through our Culinary Medicine program including live demonstrations and virtual/asynchronous programs, Members learn how to understand the value of food and cooking, and how certain foods contribute to chronic disease and wellbeing. We provide a simple approach to bringing delicious, health-promoting foods into daily life.
Equipped with our Synergy Rx full teaching kitchen and event space, Members enjoy our novel Culinary Medicine program and Food-as-Medicine curriculum in addition to a full array of Wellness events and topics.
Curated by our top industry experts, our evidence-based holistic health education topics include breath-as-medicine, tai chi, metabolic health, introduction to herbalism, stress resilience, food-as-medicine, hormonal balance, and much more.
Members may attend live classes, receive a monthly newsletter with high quality / high impact content created by our own team, monthly food-as-medicine recipes, participate in demonstrations by experts, and have exclusive access to our full library of content via our Members Archive including education resources and tip sheets
Exclusive wellness-topic-focused events often feature renowned guests across field such as Sleep Medicine, Pranayama, and Tai Chi. Synergy’s guest presenters have included:
Dr. William Li | “Eat to Beat Disease”
Dr. Drew Ramsey and the Mental Fitness Kitchen
Dr. Uma Naidoo | “This is Your Brain on Food’
Ramel Rones Tai Chi
Dr. Amit Anand | Pranayama Rx
Here are some examples of the recipes cooked up in our teaching kitchen
Mindful Mondays
Members receive a newly-created guided mindfulness practice each month featuring timely themes and practices.
Exclusively and lovingly created by our highly-trained and certified practitioners, each month we deliver to members both practical skills and tools to enhance their stress resilience and well as a customized video-guided practice.
Synergy Private Health members are invited to take advantage of special offers and discounts on wellness, healthy living, and related services through our exclusive Membership Program.
Synergy's Wellness Partners are curated with care by our wellness team, who chooses providers of services and products that support our members in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and achieving their health and wellness goals.
Meet the Team
