Orcas community integrative medicine clinic
ORCAS COMMUNITY INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE CLINIC
OCIMC is a primary care and integrative medicine provider led by Dr. Vincent Shu, a board-certified Internist/Geriatrician/Cardiologist, and will include a team of providers who treat patients of all ages, using integrative (Eastern and Western) Medicine, Nutritional Counseling (Foods as Medicines), Home Care visits, Evidenced Based Herbs/Supplements, Acupuncture/Acupressure, Tai-Chi and educational seminars. OCIMC has served hundreds of patients across thousands of appointments on the SanJuan Islands since 2013.
The mission of OCIMC’s staff is to promote a long, joyous, healthier life through affordable, compassionate holistic medical care for islanders by implementing science-validated translational services. The policy of the clinic is to provide sliding scale services so that all islanders, no matter their socio-economic status, are able to afford access to treatment and better health.
Dr. Vincent Shu is a board-certified Internist/Geriatrician/Cardiologist trained in both eastern and western medicine and has successfully treated hundreds of patients on Orcas Island and San Juan Island, across thousands of appointments since 2013.
Washington Institute of Natural Sciences (W.I.N.S.)
Orcas Community Integrative Medicine Clinic (OCIMC) operates under the Washington State Institute of Natural Sciences (W.I.N.S.), which is an IRS-approved non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and the State of Washington registered charitable institution. W.I.N.S.' academic and educational programs are intended to train holistic and integrative (eastern and western medicines) healthcare providers so that they can go on to make valuable contributions to the healthcare system globally. This is especially important now for many reasons, including helping to serve our aging and continually growing baby boomer population for a long, joyous, healthy life and to provide affordable, compassionate holistic medical care.
We greatly value the importance of evidence-based translational sciences in providing a comprehensive foundation for providing medical care. We respect medicinal herbs and plants that have been evolving over millennia. We strive to seek scientific validation and discovery of their potential healing power through advanced molecular, cellular and genetic imaging technologies and clinical trials.
Our scheduled development of scientific research and training of graduate students in the latest basic research methodologies in the natural sciences, in collaboration with academic institutions globally, will earn an international reputation for documenting the results of natural science practices with rigorous methodology. In doing so, our goal is to build and develop a bridge of comprehensive understanding of life sciences between western (mainstream) and eastern medicine and thus consolidate a single discipline and entity, that is, Life Sciences in Medicine.
Dr. Vincent W. Shu, MD, FCCP
Washington Institute of Natural Sciences ( W.I.N.S). Integrative Medicine Clinic, School of Integrative Medicine
Former Fellowship-Hypertension at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center
Former Fellowship - Cardiology at UCSF Hospitals
Former Fellowship - Cardiology at UC Davis Health
Former Internal Medicine Residency at UCI Medical Center
Worked at Inspire Medical Clinic
Former Associate Clinical Professor in Medicine, Division of Cardiology at University of California, Irvine
Former Associate Director, Echocardiographic Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Dept of Medicine at VA Long Beach Healthcare System