Ronald D. Whitmont MD
Born in New York City and was raised in Westchester County, his father was a classical homeopathic physician and a Jungian Analyst and his mother a T’ai Chi instructor and Gestalt and Art Psychotherapist.
Dr. Whitmont followed an interdisciplinary course of studies at Hampshire College, focusing on psychology and the natural sciences. His Bachelor’s Thesis explored the use of the therapeutic community in the treatment of mental illness.
He received his medical training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He is Board certified in Internal Medicine and a founding diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. Dr. Whitmont has been in clinical practice for the over 25 years, initially as a Medical officer in the United States Navy, and then as a solo physician in private practice. He formerly held offices as president, vice president and treasurer of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, and is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine and director of the fourth year clinical elective at New York Medical College in Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Whitmont has practiced classical homeopathy for the last 20 years in Rhinebeck and New York City, New York. He is a second-generation physician and homeopath, who choose homeopathy out of direct personal experience. He has a very thorough understanding of the important role that homeopathic medicines play in providing safe, effective therapeutic choices in a wide variety of illnesses.