Dr. Nadine Cartwright-Lowe Joins Pinnacle’s Health Education & Health Coaching Practice

Fairfield, CT, January 09, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Nadine Cartwright-Lowe, MD, an internal medicine physician, has joined Pinnacle Educational Center’s health education and health coaching practice. Pinnacle Educational Center, headquartered in Woodbridge, Connecticut, is an educational, career and life services firm.

“I am very excited to have Dr. Cartwright-Lowe join our team, and build our health coaching and education practice,” Dr. Paul Lowe, CEO and president of Pinnacle Educational Center says. “I am confident that she will also allow us to expand our office hours to include more evening and weekend appointments. We will now have more resources available to meet the educational and advisory needs of our clients in New Haven and Fairfield Counties, Westchester County, and Manhattan.”

Much of the health education and health coaching she provides, Dr. Cartwright-Lowe says, is based on her preventive and primary care clinical experiences as an internist. “I like to educate people about their personal health. Health education and health coaching empowers people and provides them with the knowledge to stay healthy and feel well. It also helps them to communicate effectively with their doctors and successfully navigate the health care system.“

Dr. Cartwright-Lowe received a B.A. in biology and minored in philosophy from Brown University and a M.D. from Brown University Medical School. She participated in clinical research in biomechanics and orthopedics at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed specialty training in internal medicine at St. Vincent's Medical Center/Yale University School of Medicine. She has also served as a board member of the Brown Medical Alumni Association.

Dr. Cartwright-Lowe’s medical, clinical and educational experiences are quite extensive. She is a former staff physician St. Vincent’s Medical Center’s Immediate Health Care, former Medical Director of School Sister of Notre Dame-Lourdes Health Care, former staff physician at Gaylord Hospital, medical education consultant at BHA Education Consultants, president and founder of Center for Personal Health, P.C., a complementary, alternative and internal medicine practice, which emphasized weight loss and management, exercise, aroma therapy, health education as well as wellness.

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