Thomas Cowan, MD helped to establish the Weston A. Price Foundation, is one of our board members, and has been a popular speaker at our yearly Wise Traditions conference from the start. We feel deeply appreciative of his many contributions to our co…
Thomas Cowan, MD helped to establish the Weston A. Price Foundation, is one of our board members, and has been a popular speaker at our yearly Wise Traditions conference from the start. We feel deeply appreciative of his many contributions to our community. See him speak about healthy immunity at Healthy Immunity 2019, a one day conference hosted in March.
https://wanp.org/event/healthy-immunity-2019
Thomas Cowan, MD
https://fourfoldhealing.com
Thomas Cowan, MD
Thomas Cowan, M.D., has studied and written about many subjects in medicine including nutrition, anthroposophical medicine and herbal medicine. He is the principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing and co-author (with Sally Fallon) of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care. Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophic Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation®. He also writes the “Ask the Doctor” column in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts (the Weston A. Price Foundation’s quarterly magazine) and has lectured throughout the United States and Canada. He has three grown children and practices medicine in San Francisco where he resides with his wife, Lynda Smith.
https://www.humanheartcosmicheart.com
Thomas Cowan, MD, (Vice President) discovered the work of the two men who would have the most influence on his career while teaching gardening as a Peace Corps volunteer in Swaziland, South Africa. He read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price and a fellow volunteer explained the arcane principles of Rudolf Steiner’s biodynamic agriculture. These events inspired him to pursue a medical degree. Cowan graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in 1984. After his residency in Family Practice at Johnson City Hospital in Johnson City, New York, he set up an anthroposophical medical practice in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophical Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Dr. Cowan is the author of The Fourfold Path to Healing (New Trends Publishing), a companion book to Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. He writes the “Ask the Doctor” column in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the Foundation’s quarterly magazine and has lectured throughout the US and Canada. He has three grown children and currently practices medicine in San Francisco where he resides with his wife Lynda Smith Cowan.
https://www.westonaprice.org/about-us/board-of-directors
