Babak Kanani, MD started his education at University of California, Berkeley where he earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology and Neuroscience. From there he traveled to New York City to study medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He earned his doctorate in Medicine in 2007, then completed a three year residency in Internal Medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center. An academic center located in Bronx, NY that focuses on care for the underserved. Following this he returned to Northern California and worked in primary care and inpatient medicine as a hospitalist before realizing his efforts to help people heal from chronic illness would be better served using a more holistic approach. 

He began studying Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine and worked for two years under Dr. Isaac Eliaz, a pioneer in Integrative Oncology. Looking to promote Integrative Medicine to a broader audience he joined the Sutter Institute for Health and Healing, a premier Integrative health center located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in 2017 and worked there until 2020 working as part of an interdisciplinary team of acupuncturists, chiropractors, health coaches and nutritionists. After his move to Grass Valley, CA he continued his work at the Sutter Institute for Health and Healing in Roseville until 2022. 

He is now working in a private practice setting where he can offer a wider array of services to his patients. His approach is based on addressing the root cause of illness while at the same time listening to the patient’s individual story and creating a personalized plan based on their genetics, needs, lifestyle, and approach to health. By using a combination of functional medicine testing to investigate the deeper causes behind people’s health struggles, combined with IV nutritional therapies and his conventional medicine training, Dr. Kanani’s approach is truly Integrative. Healing then becomes a journey of discovery and return to wholeness, and sense of belonging and integration into the core of one’s being that supports true recovery and healing.