Robert Rountree, M.D.

Robert Rountree, M.D. is a board-certified practitioner of family medicine. He received his M.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill, followed by a residency in family medicine at the Hershey Medical Center. He began his professional career at Wellspring, Partners in Health, in Boulder, CO, a multidisciplinary clinic that was one of the first integrative medicine healthcare centers in the U.S. In 2002, he opened Boulder Wellcare, a private practice specializing in personalized healthcare consulting. Dr. Rountree has coauthored numerous books and written numerous book chapters on integrative and nutritional medicine. He is the long-time Clinical Editor and a regular columnist for the journal, Alternative and Complementary Therapies (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc).

In addition to his clinical practice, he is a long-standing member of the core faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine. In June, 2015, he was given the Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award by IFM, in recognition of his years of mentoring and training health care providers. Bob has served for many years as the Chief Medical Advisor for Thorne, a world leader in the development and manufacturing of pure, high-quality nutritional and botanical supplements. Over the past twenty years he has had the opportunity to lecture all over the world to professional and public audiences. Bob is especially passionate about the great outdoors, wild nature and the preservation of biodiversity.