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Sangeeta Pati MD, FACOG, ABOIM

President & Medical Director

Sangeeta Pati practiced obstetrics-gynecology in the Washington, D.C. and New York area for 13 years before opening an integrative medical center in Orlando, Florida. She graduated at the top of her medical...

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Karen Kelly, APRN

Nurse Practitioner

Karen Kelly, APRN was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2007 through the University of Memphis, Loewenberg School of Nursing...

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Todd E. Gegerson AP, DOM, MSOM

Acupuncture Physician

Todd Gegerson is a Board Certified and Licensed Acupuncture Physician. He studied at the Florida College of Integrative Medicine and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Professional Health Studies...

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Bridgette Ruge Barlow MA, CPT, RHC

Regenerative Health Coach and Personal Trainer

Bridgette has a Masters Degree from the University of Central Florida in  Exercise Science and has been a practicing health coach and personal trainer for 15 years. In addition to being a SaJune certified...

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Gloria Rangelova ND

Naturopathic Doctor

Gloria Rangelova studied and graduated with a Naturopathic Doctorate degree from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Prior to that she obtained her Bachelor of Science...

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Viji Ramakrishnan MS-HCA

Executive Director

Detail-oriented and visionary are just some of the words most often used to describe Viji Ramakrishnan, Executive Director of the SaJune Institute and MD Prescriptives....

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Loretta Shepherd, LMT

Massage Therapist

Loretta Shepherd attended Florida College of Natural Health massage program and was licensed by the State of Florida’s Department of Health in 1999.....

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Scott Coleman, SMC-C, LMT

Stress Management

After 25 years of training and practicing as a Licensed Massage Therapist, working in pain management, advanced Cranial-Sacral therapy, hypnotherapy and conducting training for LMTs, I became certified as a...

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Karen Kelly, APRN

Nurse Practitioner

Karen Kelly, APRN was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2007 through the University of Memphis, Loewenberg School of Nursing. She completed her internship as a registered nurse in the emergency department at LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center; which has been recognized as being among the “Nation’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News and World Report; the hospital serves as the region’s primary level I pediatric trauma center.

Karen relocated to the Central Florida area to expand her nursing career in emergency services. In caring for patient’s patients of all ages and throughout their life span, giving her over 12 years’ experience in emergency medicine actively caring for patient’s in all stages of life.

In 2017, she completed the Family Nurse Practitioner program through South University graduating with a Master of Science in Nursing and obtained her board certification through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

She began her journey as a Family Nurse Practitioner working primarily in Women’s Health at a private obstetrics and gynecology practice walking along side women in some of the most delicate phases of their life from pregnancy prevention, family planning, pregnancy, menopause, and other medical conditions unique to women’s health. After two years, Karen transitioned into Family Practice where she enjoys focusing on the whole family and each of their individualized needs from primary care to urgent or acute illnesses. Her extremely versatile background has given her an overall appreciation of caring for the family as a whole working together to implement an integrative approach to facilitate disease prevention, chronic disease management with an emphasis on the healing power of natural and holistic measures.

For the last two years, Karen, has been caring for patients at Whole Family Healthcare, an integrative medical practice, providing primary care services for all ages, as well as hormone balancing, nutritional counseling, thyroid management, and treating autoimmune disorders.

Goals: Optimize the health and well being for the whole family, using the power of natural and integrative medicine to prevent, manage, and treat chronic and acute medical conditions.

LORETTA SHEPHERD, LMT

Massage Therapist

Loretta Shepherd attended the Florida College of Natural Health massage program and was licensed by the State of Florida’s Department of Health in 1999. She has received special training as a Reiki Master Teacher, Massage Instructor, Reflexologist, and Equine Massage Therapy. She massages with a unique rhythmic flow while applying appropriate pressure and specificity where needed. She utilizes a variety of massage modalities to facilitate healing such as Reiki, Reflexology, Cranial Sacral, Deep Tissue, and Range of Motion stretching. Loretta is joined by a canine therapist, Bliss.

RAMONA HUNT, MD

Director 

Ramona Hunt, MD is currently the Director of Functional Medicine at Rosen Medical Center in Orlando, Florida, where she has founded and passionately implemented the Lifestyle Management Program. She is exceptionally well-versed in Integrative Medicine, bioidentical hormones and pellets, including a full training at SaJune in 2014. Dr. Hunt is a BioTe Pellet provider in SaJune. She is a board-certified family practitioner who is compassionate, kind and has dedicated her medical career to promoting health, healing and wellness.

Dr. Hunt equally loves medical practice and teaching. Her career highlights include a tenure at Johns Hopkins University, Emory Adventist Hospital and a recent calling to UCF School of Medicine as adjunct faculty. She has published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, shared her wisdom as guest lecturer, television moderator, as well as participated in numerous fundraising projects, that include team training with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Cancer Society, American Cancer Society, and the Susan Koman foundation. She enjoys medical missions, which have led her to such places as Jamaica, Gabon, and Nigeria in her quest to provide healthcare to the underserved population.

VIJI RAMAKRISHNAN, MS-HCA

Executive Director

Detail-oriented and visionary are just some of the words most often used to describe Viji Ramakrishnan, Executive Director of the SaJune Institute and MD Prescriptives. With many years of both clinical and administrative healthcare experience, Viji is uniquely qualified to lead both organizations into the future of healthcare. Throughout her career, she has developed and mastered skill sets that have contributed to her success and the success of the organizations she has been affiliated with. Viji is a strong leader and administrator, with extensive experience in practice management, operations, human resources, marketing, and finance.

Viji began her academic career as a physician in India, where she was immediately inspired by the human condition and her ability to make a difference in people’s lives. After completing her education and training in India, she moved to California, where she continued her academic career at California State University, Hayward, where she earned her master’s degree in healthcare administration. During her work at Hayward, she entered in her professional career with First Clinical Research, where she quickly developed both her clinical and administrative acumen. After graduation, she worked at a dermatology office, where she was challenged as an administrator to significantly improve the practice's operations side. She exceeded all expectations in that role, focusing on practice management, operations, HR, and marketing.

She then relocated to Florida, where she met the founder and medical director of SaJune, Dr. Sangeeta Pati, and subsequently took on her role with the practice. She immediately found her calling and felt inspired being surrounded in an exceptional clinical and administrative environment. After taking a break from SaJune to focus on her family and children, she returned to the practice and quickly picked up where she had left off. Because of her visionary leadership and exceptional business acumen, she took on the dual responsibilities of both SaJune and MD Prescriptives.

Viji has led both organizations to the highest levels of success through her vision, leadership, and inspirational attitude in everything she does. Because of these successes, she has also taken on responsibilities as the Vice President of Business Development with the International Congress of Regenerative Medicine (ICRM). With all three roles in her sphere of influence, Viji is motivated and inspired to make a real difference in the world through her work.

In her free time, Viji is devoted to spending quality time with her family. She is a dedicated wife and mother of two. She is an artistic and creative person, deeply inspired and moved by music. Viji is an exceptionally talented vocalist and finds great joy in both singing and teaching others to sing.

GLORIA RANGELOVA, ND

Naturopathic Doctor

Gloria Rangelova studied and graduated with a Naturopathic Doctorate degree from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Prior to that she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology at the University of California in Santa Cruz. She has done extensive additional training in herbal medicine and homeopathy, the two areas of medicine she is most passionate about. She has trained in and practices pelvic floor therapy and nasal specific therapy.

Gloria’s love of natural medicine stems from growing up in Bulgaria, where natural therapies are used before other more intensive forms of treatment are considered. When she moved to the United States she experienced first hand the effect that poor diet and high stress levels have on health and was amazed by the high incidence of heart disease and cancer in this country. She was inspired to educate people about simple yet effective ways to achieve an optimal state of being.

As Florida has not issued licenses to NDs since 1959, Gloria Rangelova ND is not a licensed ND in Florida. Given her educational training and experience, she works as a regenerative health consultant under Dr. Pati's mentorship for Florida based clients.  

Scott Coleman, SMC-C, LMT

Stress Management

After 25 years of training and practicing as a Licensed Massage Therapist, working in pain management, advanced Cranial-Sacral therapy, hypnotherapy and conducting training for LMTs, I became certified as a Stress Management Consultant. I’ve performed over 25,000 stress relief sessions, including clinical hypnosis, massage therapy, and neurological stress reduction therapy treatments. My stress management services are frequently referred by many doctors in the Orlando area.

BRIDGETTE RUGE BARLOW M.A., CPT, RHC

Regenerative Health Coach and Personal Trainer

Bridgette has a Masters Degree from the University of Central Florida in  Exercise Science and has been a practicing health coach and personal trainer for 15 years. In addition to being a SaJune certified Regenerative Health Coach, she is also certified as a Holistic Nutritionist by AFPA and as a Health Coach, Personal Trainer, and Group Exercise Instructor by the American Council on Exercise. Her focus for the last 8 years has been working closely with physicians to improve the health and quality of life for their patients by creating customized health and lifestyle programs and weight loss programs that are tailored to the specific needs of the patient and based on physician recommendations. Since joining the team at SaJune in 2015, she has been working closely with SaJune providers to create effective programs that get patients excited, having fun, and living their best life ever.  She helped Dr. Pati to develop and roll out the 90 day Integrative Health Coaching Program which has been a great success since its launch. Additionally, she has worked closely with Dr. John Apsley to organize and coach patients through the Integrative Immune Support Program for advanced and/or chronic diseases. Some of her specialty areas are weight loss, healthy balanced nutrition, natural hormone balance, gut health, optimizing the immune system, total body detoxification, fitness and stress management.

TODD E. GEGERSON, AP DOM, MSOM

Acupuncture Physician

Todd Gegerson is a Board Certified and Licensed Acupuncture Physician. He studied at the Florida College of Integrative Medicine and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Professional Health Studies and a Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine.
These studies include specialized training in acupuncture, Chinese and western herbs, nutritional therapy, cupping, moxibustion, and other modalities.

He received additional training from renowned physicians including Dr. Li-Chun Huang OMD in Advanced Auricular Acupuncture, Dr. Richard Tan OMD in the Meridian Balance Method and Dr. Bob Marshall PhD, DACBN in nutrition. Additionally, he has certification in Acupoint Injection Therapy and Homotoxicology as well as training in QRA and pulse diagnosis.

Todd ventured east and completed an internship in China at The Yantai Traditional Chinese Medical Hospital, where he was exposed to a complete understanding of Chinese healing and culture which is integrated into the practice.

Todd is from a long lineage of physicians and has been greatly influenced by three Uncles practicing medicine as well as his own Father in Miami, Fl. The medical journey began for the Gegerson’s with Dr. Harry Gegerson who started his career in New York making house calls and then he opened the Pearl River General Hospital in 1949. Todd has evolved in his role as a practitioner and enjoys taking a grassroots approach with integrative medicine – something that has been instilled in him throughout his life.

SANGEETA PATI, MD, FACOG

President & Medical Director

Sangeeta Pati practiced obstetrics-gynecology in the Washington, D.C. and New York area for 13 years before opening an integrative medical center in Orlando, Florida. She graduated at the top of her medical class at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, Baltimore, and completed her residency at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. She has worked extensively internationally as Medical Director for a 350-employee non-profit organization, Engenderhealth, on maternal mortality reduction programs funded by the Gates Foundation. Dr. Pati is multi-lingual and is renowned in her field, having authored numerous scientific articles and being the highest demanded speaker for media interviews and domestic and international workshops on a regular basis. Dr. Pati’s special interest and strength has been in helping health care providers learn how to put together and integrate into real practice the vast amount of information in the restorative medicine field. She is the director of a fully pre-booked Clinical Preceptor Program, which trains doctors and health practitioners in restoring optimal body function through protocols for hormonal balance, nutrition and detoxification. She is on the Board of Advisors for MDPrescriptives Supplement Company where she helps develop clinically effective supplement protocols and integrate them into research protocols. She also runs an on-line platform (Peacock Forum) for integrative health practitioners to communicate problem cases.

SaJune Institute for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine offers integrated, evidence-based medical therapies, combining conventional, natural and complementary modalities (i.e. acupuncture, naturopathy, homeopathy, herbal medicine, oriental medicine and many more). The restorative model used at SaJune aims to restore optimal function to the body through 1) bio-identical hormone restoration, 2) nutritional restoration 3) detoxification 4) mind balance and 5) body balance. SaJune has strong special programs in weight loss, superfoods, plant-based nutrition, IV therapies, integrative cancer therapies and vascular disease reversal. 20% of patients seeking her medical care are from out of the state of Florida. 10% of her patients are medical doctors and nurses. Her medical care has been written about in the fictional book “Feeling Funkabulous” by Ivy Gilbert and “Aging Backwards” by Jackie Silver.