Dr. Victoria Maizes is the Founding Executive Director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and a Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arizona. Internationally recognized as a leader in integrative medicine, Dr. Maizes is committed to helping individuals live healthier lives and pioneering change efforts that address US health care system challenges. She stewarded the growth of the Program in Integrative Medicine from a small program training four physicians annually into an internationally recognized Center of Excellence. With her team at the Center, she created and implemented educational programs that train thousands of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals and impact the care of millions of patients. A highly sought-after speaker, Dr. Maizes is the editor of the Oxford University textbook Integrative Women’s Health and the author of Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child. Her newest book, The Rapid Recovery Reflex: How to Jump-start Your Body’s Natural Healing Response to Get Better Faster will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2026. Named one of the world’s 25 intelligent optimists by ODE magazine, Dr Maizes co-hosts the podcast Body of Wonder with Dr. Andrew Weil.