Dr. Cindy Geyer is board certified in internal medicine, integrative medicine and lifestyle medicine, and is the medical director at Canyon Ranch in Lenox where she has practiced for 21 years. She received her bachelor of science and her doctor of medicine degrees, with honors, from the Ohio State University. She completed residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., which pioneered the biopsychosocial model of medicine. Dr. Geyer serves as a core faculty member for The Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s (CMBM) “Food as Medicine” conference, teaching physicians and other health care professionals how to use food and lifestyle to address health concerns in their own lives and those of their patients. She has served on the Board of Directors for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is the case series editor for the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. A clinician, educator, and mother, she is passionate about collaborative approaches to health and wellness: from the integrative team model in working with individual patients, to community partnerships that together can effect healthy changes in the places people live and work. She loves walking and hiking, participating 5 times in the Massachusetts chapter of Cystic Fibrosis annual Xtreme Hike: traversing 25 miles in one day to raise funds and awareness for cystic fibrosis research. Her other passions include both designing and creating jewelry, honing her skills on the djembe, and listening to her sons play music.