Credentials
Dr. Kligman is a Diplomate and Fellow at the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is board-certified in Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He also has an additional Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics. Dr. Kligman is also an ordained Interfaith Contemplative Minister possessing a Master of Divinity degree from Interfaith Theological Seminary.
Based on his extensive research in successful aging, Dr. Kligman practices “longevity medicine”integrating various complementary and alternative healing traditions with state of the art allopathic care.
Dr. Kligman served as Head of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona from 1992-1995, and as Professor and Head of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Iowa from 1995-1998, before returning to Tucson to enter private practice. At the University of Arizona, Dr. Kligman has served as an Attending Physician for the Program in Integrative Medicine, Co-Director of the Arizona Center on Aging, and Professor of Family and Community Medicine. He developed the Optimal Aging program at Canyon Ranch Health Resort, and is currently associate medical director of Casa de la Luz Hospice in Tucson. He designed and served as medical director of Project Age Well, a 5- year longitudinal research study in healthy aging for Southern Arizona. He is also the founder and medical director of Clinica Amistad, a free clinic in Tucson.
His seminary training and ordination by the Interfaith Theological Seminary deepened his awareness of the spiritual issues impacting upon one’s health and wellbeing, and redirected his own spiritual practice toward the healing work of hospice and care of the indigent.
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