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Meet Stephen Sinatra

Meet Stephen Sinatra

Dr. Stephen Sinatra realized his calling to medicine from an early age. As a boy growing up in New York, he was greatly affected by his mother’s painful battle with diabetes, glaucoma, and eventual blindness. Though helpless in alleviating her suffering, he felt that as a doctor, he might be able to help others. He credits her illness with causing him to look deeper into himself, and helping him become the kind of doctor who truly cares about his patients.

Medical Philosophy

Dr. Sinatra freely admits that early in his career, he took pride in how busy he was admitting patients to the hospital. But while caring for those people, he began taking note of something more important than their symptoms. The frequency with which he saw thema often to “fix” the same old problemsa was humbling. Slowly he realized that even though he was a highly trained cardiologist with the ability to save people who were a heartbeat from death, he didn’t have a clue about how to actually keep them healthy.

That epiphany led Dr. Sinatra to begin studying heart disease from nontraditional perspectives. Because so many of his patients had high-achieving Type A personalities, for example, he took courses in bioenergetic analysis (a field that examines the relationship between the mind and the physical body). He also immersed himself in nutrition, learning how vitamins and minerals influence cardiovascular health.

At first, Dr. Sinatra recommended supplements and lifestyle improvements sparingly. But as patients responded with speedier recoveries and improved health, he quickly expanded his arsenal of therapies. He followed a strict process for doing so, first thoroughly researching the nutrients or activities, then trying them himself, and ultimately recommending them to others. (Even after 35 years of practice, Dr. Sinatra will not promote a nutritional supplement that he hasn’t tried. He also regularly takes the supplements that he encourages others to make part of their daily routine.)

Today Dr. Sinatra describes himself as an integrative cardiologist. That is, he prefers to treat heart disease by using the best of both conventional and alternative medicine. Sometimes that means relying on pharmaceutical drugs and high-tech equipmenta but it’s just as likely to include mind-body activities that reduce stress and nutritional therapies that enhance cell metabolism. Dr. Sinatra strongly believes that the more efficient your body’s cells are at creating and burning energy, the better your overall health will be. This is especially true of the heart, which uses more energy than any other organ in the body.

In his writing, Dr. Sinatra sometimes refers to his unique brand of cardiology as preventive or metabolic. But no matter what it’s called, it can always be summed up in a single worda effective.

Education, Training, and Certifications

Like all physicians, Dr. Sinatra is committed to a lifetime of learning about the human body and the newest medical discoveries. But rather than pursuing ever-narrower areas of expertise within cardiology, Dr. Sinatra has broadened his knowledge by earning additional credentials in fields that support his integrative approach to health and healing.

Dr. Sinatra began his medical training at Albany Medical College in New York, and graduated from the school in 1972. He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1975 after completing medical residencies at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, and St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Two years later, following a cardiology fellowship at St. Francis, Dr. Sinatra received his certification from the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease. In 1977, Dr. Sinatra became a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the organization’s highest level of recognition.

Dr. Sinatra has also studied bioenergetic analysis and anti-aging medicine, receiving certifications from the Massachusetts Society of Bioenergetic Analysis (1992) and the American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine (2000). He also holds the distinction of being a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, having received his board certification in that specialty in 2000.