About

Jacquelyn grew up on a rural family farm in Wisconsin where she learned the value of hard work and self sufficiency during her childhood years. They grew their own food in a large vegetable garden and also used animals to provide dairy and meat for the family and community. Jacquelyn spent countless hours exploring the woods, learning how to identify edible wild mushrooms, leeks, berries, walnuts, apples, plums, asparagus and other items that could be easily foraged.

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Jacquelyn was also very studious and one of the few people in her family to attend college. She worked and paid for her own education, including college, medical school and residency/fellowship. She graduated with very little debt and used extensive education and training to give back to society since she was so fortunate to be blessed with so many opportunities.

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Jacquelyn came to Duluth Minnesota because there was not a pediatric oncology program in 2002. When she arrived, her desire was to start a state of the art pediatric oncology program. Prior to this children and their families would be dislocated to tertiary care centers hours away in order to receive cancer care. This treatment could last years in some cases.

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Jacquelyn successfully built a program in Duluth from the ground up over the last 20 years. She  took non-stop calls and did patient care 24/7 for years, but as the support for the program grew she was able to add on more physicians and practitioners. Jacquelyn also started a pediatric and adult survivorship program to follow long term survivors of cancer. The final goal was achieved in 2021 when a Ronald McDonald house was in place!

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Jacquelyn loved her job as a pediatric hematologist/oncologist, but found that traditional allopathic medical care was no longer providing solutions to many of the health challenges that were increasing over the last 20 years. Therefore,  she expanded her training to include a certification by the Institute of Functional Medicine and an additional certification in Obesity/Weight Management medicine.

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This additional lifestyle, wholistic medical training has brought a full circle to what she loved as a child- using nature, God’s creation, fresh air and exercise and other natural solutions to promote health. Now, twenty years later the pediatric hematology/oncology program is strong and provides a valuable resource to the community. Therefore, it is again time to trail blaze another path in the Duluth area and help the community find wholistic solutions to encourage intrinsic healing that the body is designed for to achieve health naturally.