The provider

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Tanja Burkinshaw, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, FMACP 

Tanja has 30 years of nursing experience including metabolic syndrome, prediabetes, thyroid, pain, orthopedic, and neurologic diseases. Not only clinically, but personally, she understands the struggle of metabolic syndrome, hypothyroidism, weight gain, and early onset menopause. She found that resources, choices, and support for these diseases was lacking and wanted to provide the level of testing and treatment options to others that she searched for herself. She became a family nurse practitioner and certified functional medicine practitioner to provide better access, education, and options to patients. She believes patients are intelligent, understand their bodies, and are able to make good decisions when they are given thorough information. Her approach to care is not paternalistic and apathetic but collaborative and supportive. She aims to treat her patients with the respect and dignity that everybody deserves but doesn't always recieve in today's typical health care environment.