Deborah Heath D.O.

About Deborah Heath D.O.

Deborah M. Heath, D.O., CSPOMM is board certified in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and has been in general practice in Phoenix, Arizona for over 30 years with an emphasis in osteopathic manipulative medicine.  She has also has been a full-time professor at A.T. Still University since 2007 as well as served as the Associate Dean of Innovation and Curricular Integration between 2018-2023.

Dr. Heath has been actively involved in research since she was a student at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine where she was mentored by Albert Kelso, Ph.D., William Johnston, D.O., and Irwin Korr, Ph.D.  She has continued her passion for research on physiologic responses to osteopathic manipulation as well as integrated a variety of non-invasive physiologic measurements as part of the osteopathic medical students hands-on learning sessions.   She has authored 16 papers related to this research as well as presented lectures and posters at national and international conferences.

Dr. Heath has been a core faculty for Viola Frymann, D.O. teaching osteopathy in the cranial field to national and international osteopaths for 20 years at the Osteopathic Center for Children in La Jolla, California.  She was a member of osteopathic delegation led by Dr. Frymann to China and Russia where seeds of osteopathic medicine were sown and local healing traditions were shared.  Dr. Heath was a former board member of Dr. Frymann’s Foundation, Osteopathy’s Promise to Children.  She is currently part of the “Biodynamics” core teaching faculty and has been a student of Dr. James Jealous since 1982.

In addition to her osteopathic training, Dr. Heath has been actively involved in the integrative and complementary medicine community with training in acupuncture, nutrition, and homeopathy since the early 90’s.