Heather Skeens
Bestselling Author, Unshackled | Helping Executives Achieve Peak Performance Through Integrative Medicine • Co-Founder, Aligness™
- Role
- Founder at Bellasee
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Heather Skeens
You Run a Company with a Board of Advisors, a CFO, a Legal team, and a Strategic plan.But When it comes to your Health, you\'re Managing it Alone.Five specialists. None of them talking. Lab results that say \"normal\" when you feel anything but. Annual physicals that test everything and coordinate nothing.That gap is what I spent 25 years uncovering.I\'m a board-certified ophthalmologist and corneal surgeon. I spent two decades in the OR treating end-stage disease. But the question that changed everything wasn\'t surgical. It was upstream:Why did the tissue fail in the first place?The answer led me out of the OR and into systems medicine. Inflammation. Metabolic dysfunction. Oral-systemic connections. Airway health. Oxidative stress. All of it connected. None of it coordinated.I co-founded Aligness™ with Dr. Vladimir Pastouk to fix that. Aligness is a physician-led health advisory that integrates surgical medicine, functional medicine, and integrative dental medicine into one coordinated strategy for executives who are done managing their health by committee.What I bring to the table:→ 25+ years in ophthalmologic surgery (corneal transplants, ocular surface reconstruction)→ Author of Unshackled (#1 Amazon Bestseller)→ Board-certified ophthalmologist (American Board of Ophthalmology)→ Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner→ Published in Ophthalmology, Cornea, and American Journal of Ophthalmology→ As seen on FOX 5 San Diego and PIX11 New York→ Founder, Bellasee™ (first integrative ophthalmology franchise)→ Former Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, MUSCIf your health team has no quarterback, let\'s talk.
Experience
Founder
Apr 2017 — Present · US
Education
West Virginia University Eye Institute
Resident Ophthalmologist, Ophthalmology Residency Program
Functional Medicine University
Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Functional Medicine
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Intern, Internal Medicine Residency Program
West Virginia University
Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology Residency Program
University of Kentucky
Bachelor's degree, Biology, General
Cincinnati Eye Institute/University of Cincinnati
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Cornea and External Disease and Cataract
2006 — 2007
Cincinnati Eye Institute
Fellow, Cornea and External Disease
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Medical Doctor, Medicine
Pacific College of Health and Science
Medical Cannabis, Medical Cannabis
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Internship Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Skills
- Medical Devices
- Ehr
- Cataract
- Medicine
- Transplant
- Surgery
- Practice Management
- Hospitals
- Board Certified
- Healthcare Management
- Healthcare
- Cornea
- Refractive Surgery
- Successful Business Owner
- Ophthalmology
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