Medical Director, Founder

• Education & Training: Dartmouth (M.S. Outcomes Research), Larner College of Medicine – University of Vermont (M.D.), Wake Forest (Postdoctoral Fellowship, Integrative Medicine).

• Specialty Training: Functional Medicine, Medical Acupuncture, Lyme disease treatment, Walsh Approach holistic psychiatry, Klinghardt ART, PRF regenerative aesthetics, advanced light therapy.

Lari’s journey in healthcare began early, when she volunteered as a candy striper in high school and discovered her calling to help others. That spark led her to pursue a Master’s in Outcomes Research and a role in the cardiovascular research department at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she helped design informatics systems and analyze patient outcomes. While the research was rewarding, she felt a growing pull toward direct patient care and the chance to impact lives more personally.

In her thirties, Lari went on to earn her medical degree and began practicing in conventional medicine, but quickly grew frustrated by the system’s limitations—too often focused on managing symptoms instead of preventing illness. Determined to offer a better path, she trained in Integrative Medicine through a postdoctoral fellowship at Wake Forest University, completed medical acupuncture training at the Helms Medical Institute, and studied extensively with the Institute of Functional Medicine. She has since pursued advanced training in Lyme disease treatment, holistic psychiatry through the Walsh Approach, Klinghardt’s Autonomic Response Testing, anti-aging and regenerative aesthetics with PRF EDU, and light therapy applications through ISLA in partnership with Weber Medical.

In 2012, she founded MyHealth1st to bridge the gap between evidence-based research and personalized, root-cause medicine. Her approach is grounded in the belief that every patient’s story matters, and that true healing comes from understanding and treating the whole person—not just managing their prescriptions.

Outside of medicine, Lari’s proudest role is being a mom. Her daughter Lilly now works alongside her at MyHealth1st (Lari famously took Lilly to medical school lectures as a newborn, studying in the library with her in tow), and her son Kaelan is training to be a paramedic, often stopping by the clinic to help out. At home, Lari’s passion for health shows up in everyday life—she loves cooking homemade meals for family and friends, keeping up with her workouts, and sharing good books. She has a soft spot for nonfiction, especially stories of great thinkers in science and medicine, and if you ask her for a recommendation, you’ll likely walk away with a whole reading list.