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Biography
Kamau Kokayi, MD received his medical doctorate from Yale Medical School, and then completed his residency with board certification in Family Medicine. He was additionally certified in acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, applied kinesiology, and homeopathy. With 27 years experience in integrating allopathic science with bioenergetic therapies and traditional healing systems, Dr. Kokayi’s broad knowledge base and depth of understanding provide him a multilayered lens through which to evaluate and treat patients suffering in body, mind, and spirit.
As an integrative medical physician, Dr. Kokayi individualizes his protocols to the patient’s needs pulling on homeopathic therapeutics, Chinese medicine, allopathic medicine, kinesiology, and various mind body disciplines. His tool box includes clinical nutrition, detoxification, chelation, intravenous therapy, HCG weight loss therapy, craniosacral therapy, phytotherapy, chiropractic manipulation, and pranic healing for successful management and treatment of a wide variety of conditions encountered in daily medical practice.
Dr. Kamau Kokayi’s path to a non-conventional approach to health care began in his university years. During his undergraduate studies at Cornell University, Dr. Kokayi was distinguished as a College Scholar. Under the tutelage of a Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Kokayi devised his own course of study and, upon graduating, received offers from Yale and Harvard medical schools, as well as a full scholarship to law school. His pursuits in medicine were accompanied by a growing interest in personal well-being, with conversion to a vegetarian lifestyle and self-dedication to mastery of the martial arts. Inspired to understand alternative approaches to health care, he embarked on a year’s leave of absence from Yale to enter into studies in homeopathy, Chinese medicine, and various spiritual disciplines. This divergence marked the first of many sojourns abroad to acquire skill and garner insight into alternative and traditional medicine in China, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dr. Kokayi continues his journey, traveling to Europe for classes in an advanced immunology program, sponsored by a research group out of Oxford University.
Dr Kokayi served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Downstate Medical Center, and as Medical Director of their acupuncture unit for sixteen years, specializing in the treatment of substance abuse and related problems. Since 2008 Dr. Kamau Kokayi has been an adjunct assistant professor of family and community medicine at New York Medical College. .A former chairman of the board of the non-profit Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility, Dr. Kokayi produced large-scale health fairs in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, and implemented health awareness seminars to meet the growing need for preventive health awareness and practices. In 2005 he invited 70 colleagues to share their expertise in a hugely successful holistic health fair he sponsored in conjunction with Baruch College (CUNY). Dr Kokayi is currently on the New York State Medical Board for acupuncture and a member of the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society.
His visionary community leadership was further manifest while serving as medical director at the Olive Leaf Wholeness Center, where he orchestrated a multidisciplinary approach for the treatment of those exposed to Ground Zero. Over 150 police officers and firefighters were treated with successful outcomes, as documented in peer-reviewed scientific literature that he and his colleagues authored. He was also Medical Director of the Rescue Worker’s project in lower Manhattan for uniformed service workers exposed to Ground Zero toxicity. Over one thousand police and firemen were treated in this program.
Since 2000, Dr. Kokayi has repeatedly traveled to the African continent, both to complete his award-winning documentary film Return and to serve as consultant for the United Methodist Church. Dr. Kokayi has assisted the church in efforts to incorporate traditional African medicine into the working body of health professionals in their African hospitals. Between his film and consulting work on traditional African medicine, Dr. Kokayi has visited nine African countries over the past 12 years.
Through his work in Africa, Dr. Kokayi facilitated dialogue between traditional healers and allopathic medical institutions, assisted in funding a traditional African medical summit on HIV in South Africa in 2002, organized a conference between traditional healers and hospital staff in Mozambique in 2003, and brought a traditional healer from South Africa to Ghana to speak at a convention of the U.S.-based Association of Black Psychologists.
Dr. Kokayi was also the creator and host of listener-supported Pacifica Radio’s weekly Global Medicine Review, airing Wednesdays at noon on WBAI 99.5 FM, from 2003 until 2011. Focusing on holistic approaches to health issues ranging from environmental toxicity and chronic disease to energetic and spiritual dimensions of healing, his program featured expert practitioners an individuals in the disciplines under discussion.
In addition to his private practice in Brooklyn, NY, Dr Kokayi is the initiator and Medical Director of a clinical stem cell research project in midtown Manhattan that is actively investigating the use of stem cells (stromal vascular fraction), harvesting them from adipose tissue (fat), and deploying them for a variety of health problems. This is part of a nationwide clinical investigation with Dr Kokayi heading up a multidisciplinary team of medical doctors in New York. He has seven children, three grandchildren, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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