Dr David Reilly
Dr David Reilly FRCP, MRCGP. FFHom is currently the Scottish Government’s National Clinical Lead for Integrative Care; Consultant Physician, The Centre for Integrative Care, Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Glasgow University; Visiting Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland; faculty member at Harvard Medical School, USA; Director AdHominem Charity.
I became a doctor to combine my head and my heart in helping people. En route to my training as a physician and GP I evaluated aspects of complementary medicine (including RCTs of homoeopathy) and mind-body medicine. I’ve wondered about better ways of approaching medicine and human caring that emphasise the innate healing capacity in people, the factors that modify the healing response, and their interaction in the therapeutic encounter and relationship – ideas adopted as the core of The Fifth Wave document which explored future Public Health in Scotland
I am a clinician, teacher and researcher. Currently I am exploring how knowledge from the study of healing process and wellness enhancement might be scaled up: eg: in one-to-one relationships; in group work - like The WEL programme; in integrative models of care; in healing environments; and cultural and national development.
I am now old enough to have made major mistakes and young enough to learn from them. Fortunately, I am not as old as I used to be, and am even younger since my daughter Karina Maia was born in 2005.