Location:Austin, Texas
Education:University of Texas at Austin; B.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, University of Texas Southwestern
Expertise:Nutrition, wellness, digestive disease, metabolic health and dysfunction, prevention medicine- Board-certified physician assistant- Runs a food-as-medicine virtual cooking academy
Experience
She graduated from the University of Texas Physician Assistant Program in 1999. After several years of working in Seattle in internal medicine inpatient care of oncology patients at the University of Washington and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, she and her husband moved to Austin. Around this time, she began taking a deep dive into nutrition courses, which started a lifelong journey into nutrition education.
She joined a urology group practicing functional and lifestyle medicine before opening her own practice, Precision Metabolic Health.
Shefaly is an expert in food as medicine, nutritional sciences, gut health and total systems body health. She educates and counsels patients on lifestyle and preventive medicine using tools such as nutrition, food as medicine, laboratory evaluation, exercise and mind-body practices to help them on their journey toward total body health and a long, healthy life.
When she is not seeing patients, you’ll find Shefaly spending time with her family, cooking and entertaining, reading, playing tennis or listening to podcasts on nutrition and health.
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