PHYSICIAN BIOGRAPHY

Clarice Baumgartner, MD (she/her/hers) is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician with over sixteen years of clinical experience treating the full spectrum of adult illness, to include anxiety, depression, chronic pain, substance use disorders and more. She has worked in adult medicine in and out of the hospital and has had extensive experience with end-of-life care. She founded Physician Psychedelics as she is passionate about how evidence-based breakthrough treatments can be used to treat the root cause of these mental health ailments, rather than simply treating symptoms of disease. As a medical doctor, she can offer a wholistic and scientific approach to care, ensuring that treatments are pursued with a person’s entire medical profile in mind. Safety and harm reduction are key. She is trained in the use of ketamine and psilocybin for various conditions and has an interest in emerging psychedelic medicines. She has undergone extensive psychedelic training through Ben Malcolm, PhD the Spirit Pharmacist, Integrative Psychiatry Institute, Polaris, Rainfall Institute, Ketamine Academy and Skylight Psychedelics. She is also a Lead Clinical Therapist for two studies at Anschutz investigating psilocybin for end-of-life existential distress for advanced cancer patients and for safety in of psilocybin and LSD for older adults.

“Western medicine is very good at patching people together, keeping people alive- at times with very little quality of life. The integration of emerging psychedelic medicines can help heal the whole person. It can allow people to get to the core cause of what ails them, to access and process deep rooted trauma, and to allow people to live better, and when the time comes, to die better, as well.”