Meet Our Integrative Medicine Doctors

Welcome to the University Integrative Medicine "Blog". Here, you will find information about the doctors who practice with us. You will also find audio clips of lectures they have conducted.

Tamar Hoffmann, MD

Dr. Tamar Hoffmann is board certified in Internal Medicine and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Hoffmann was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, graduated the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel, completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Booth Memorial Medical Center in Queens New York, and has been practicing Internal Medicine in Hawaii since 1989. She is a certified practitioner of Ayurveda; a 5000-year-old Indian medical tradition, studied the intimate connections between body, mind and spirit and is incorporating principles from the Ayurvedic tradition as well as Mind Body Medicine in her practice. In order to identify the true cause of a condition, Dr. Hoffmann is integrating diagnostic and therapeutic techniques derived from mainstream medicine with tools from Complementary and Alternative methodologies. Dr. Hoffmann practices a holistic approach to medicine, believing that it is vitally important to treat each individual rather than treating a disease process. She strongly believes in the healing powers of nature, as well as in the role of the physician as healer and educator, and strives to empower her patients to become active in maintaining and improving their well being.

Dr. Elizabeth Chen Christenson

Elizabeth Chen Christenson, MD, FAAMA, FCAP, ABHM, Dipl Ac, LAc, has been in private practice specializing in Family Medicine and Complementntary & Alternative Medicine incorporating Acupuncture - Oriental Medicine for the past 14 years. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Department of Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine and an Associate Professor of the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Hawaii. Dr. Christenson is board certified in Holistic Medicine, Medical Acupuncture and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and is a Diplomate and Fellow of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, American Board of Medical Acupuncture, and American Board of Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical. She is a Diplomate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and is also licensed in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine certified by the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and (NCCAOM). She is a life-member of American Medical Association (AMA), a member of Hawaii Medical Association and Honolulu County Medical Society, the American Association of Oriental Medicine and Global Federation of Chinese Business Women – Hawaii Chapter. She is also serving as a Director of the Board of Sounding Joy Music Therapy in Hawaii. She holds a certificate as Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner (CTHP) through the International Harp therapy Program. She is an author of a chapter entitled “Chinese Five Element Music Healing” for a book entitled “Harp Therapy Cradle of Sound” (2006). With a diversified cultural background and command of three continental languages (English, Chinese and Italian) she is active in multi-cultural community health services and is devoted in bridging the best of eastern and western medicine, spirituality in medicine as well as music and medicine. For more information about Dr. Christenson please visit http://www.chimedicalcenter.com/.