PATRICK HANAWAY, MD is a board-certified family physician trained at Washington University. Dr. Hanaway served as President of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. For over 25 years he has worked with his wife, Dr. Lisa Lichtig, in clinical practice @ Family to Family: Your Home for Whole Health Care in Asheville, NC.

Patrick was initiated in 2009 as a Mara’akame [indigenous healer] by the Wixárika [Huichol] people of the Sierra Madres in Mexico. He is chairperson of the Blue Deer Center in upstate NY. Patrick holds community fires, leads ceremonies and pilgrimage to sacred sites, and offers traditional healing sessions ‘around the fire.'