About Serena M. Satcher, M.D.

Serena M. Satcher, M.D. brings to the Integrative Medicine team at Progressive Medical Center a wealth of experience in Musculoskeletal Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Occupational Medicine, Medical Leadership, and more recently, Functional Medicine.

Dr. Satcher earned a degree in Medicine from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN in 1989, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at New England Deaconess Hospital of Boston (now Beth Israel-Deaconess, affiliated with Harvard University) in 1992, and a second residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Il in 1996. Dr. Satcher is board-certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Integrative Holistic Medicine. She is also subspecialtyboard certified in Sports Medicine.

Dr. Satcher has served as a clinical instructor on the faculty of Northwestern University in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and as a clinical instructor on faculty at the University of Illinois. Her areas of focus in Rehabilitation have been in the fields of Wound Care, Sports and Spine, Occupational Health, and Arthritis Rehabilitation.

For Dr. Satcher, a medical mission to Burkina Faso in 2004 with Doctors United for Medical Missions in Africa reinforced truths that nutrition, lifestyle, and simple, less-technical therapies can have great effects on quality of life, health, and longevity. She served for many years on the Boards of the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago and the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.

With all of her diverse training and expertise, Dr. Satcher further enhances the broad array of integrative therapies at Progressive Medical Center. She has always believed in treating “the whole person and not just the hole in the patient” and upholds the mission of Progressive to get to the source of issues, instead of only treating symptoms. She has incorporated Homeopathy and Functional Medicine into her diverse training, which she applies brilliantly to the practice of Integrative Medicine at Progressive Medical Center.

 Serena M. Satcher, M.D. enjoys

   painting, running, cycling,

    and swimming— she has

        even completed a

     marathon and triathlon!

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