Meet Carol
The Passion Behind Wellness by Design
Come along with me to explore aging gently with vitality and exuberance.
Carol Petersen is an accomplished compounding pharmacist with decades of experience helping patients improve their quality of life through bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy and is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner. Her passion to optimize health and commitment to compounding is evident in her involvement with organizations including the International College of Integrated Medicine and the American College of Apothecaries, American Pharmacists Association and the Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding.
She was also founder and first chair for the Compounding Special Interest Group with the American Pharmacists Association. She serves as chair for the Integrated Medicine Consortium. She co-hosts a radio program “Take Charge of your Health” in the greater New York area. She is on the Medical Advisory Board for the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR.ca).
With 27 years experience with bio-identical hormone therapies, attending 100’s of complementary medicine conferences, reading and researching staggering numbers of books and scientific papers, all while co-owning an alternative medicine practice, co-hosting Take Charge of Your Health at WBAI, WPPB and PRN.fm radio, and in practice with a compounding pharmacy specializing in bio-identical hormone therapies. She is grateful to have access to so many resources for healthy living. Carol is reaching out to her baby boomer generation to come along and explore aging gently with vitality and exuberance.
Carol Petersen, RPh, CNP
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