About Dr. Vliet
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| Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD |
Elizabeth Lee Vliet, MD, is the founder and Medical
Director of HER Place®: Health Enhancement
and Renewal for Women, Inc.®, whose programs examine and
evaluate the hormone changes that affect women physically,
emotionally, and socially.
A nationally recognized speaker on women’s health
issues, Dr. Vliet has presented numerous scientific papers
and keynote addresses at regional, national, and
international conferences. She regularly teaches
Continuing Medical Education courses on Women’s Health to
physicians and other health professionals.
Dr. Vliet has studied, researched, and written on the
effects of hormone changes on migraines, fibromyalgia and
chronic pain, PMS, PCOS, depression and anxiety,
osteoporosis, cardiovascular risks, etc. Her books
include: It’s My Ovaries, Stupid!,
Screaming to
Be Heard: Hormone Connections Women Suspect… and Doctors
Still Ignore, and
Women, Weight and Hormones.
Her clinical approach is to treat the whole person by
carefully evaluating hormone changes throughout a
patient’s life cycle, then integrating preventive and
complementary medicine to help women (and sometimes men)
develop individualized plans for optimal physical,
emotional, and spiritual health. Dr. Vliet earned her
B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from the College of William and
Mary, and her MD degree at Eastern Virginia Medical
School, where she also completed her internship in
Internal Medicine. Pursuing her interest in the
integration of mind and body, she completed specialty training in
Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology and of the American Academy of
Pain Management.
Dr. Vliet is a member of the International Menopause
Society, the International Society of Gynecologic
Endocrinology, American Society of Reproductive Medicine,
and the North American Menopause Society. She is on the advisory board for The
Alliance for Better Bone Health. She was the
Co-coordinating Editor for Practical Reviews in Women’s
Health, published by the American College of Women’s
Health Physicians Continuing Medical Education. She served as Program Chair of the Southern Medical
Association Preventive Medicine Conference, and was a
member of the Part III Test Development Committee for the
National Board of Medical Examiners.
Dr. Vliet’s past positions include:
- Clinical (Adjunct) Associate Professor in Family
Medicine at the University of Arizona College of
Medicine
- Assistant Professor in Family Medicine at Eastern
Virginia Medical School
- Medical Director of the HER Place®
Women’s Center Program at All Saints Hospital
- Women’s Health physician at Canyon Ranch, where she
developed a hormone and bone-density assessment program
for women in mid-life
- Specialty consultant and presenter of seminars in
pain management, women’s health, and sexual health
enhancement
- Medical Director for the Women’s Program at Maryview
Hospital, where she designed the first program in the
region to focus on the total mind-body health of women
- Associate Medical Director of the Pain Management
Program at Maryview Hospital
- Director of the Behavioral Medicine Division in
Family Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School,
where she developed the curriculum in Mind-Body Medicine
for health professionals
- Director of Consultation-Liaison Services at the
University of Kansas School of Medicine
- Consultant to the Kansas Regional Diabetes Center,
where her clinical research examined glucose control on
cognitive function and mood in diabetics
