# Andrew Weil

Andrew Thomas Weil (, born June 8, 1942) is an American celebrity doctor who advocates for alternative medicine.Weil became interested in the ideas and practices of complementary and alternative medicine, and went on to play a seminal role in codifying and establishing the emerging field of integrative medicine, which aims to combine alternative medicine, conventional evidence-based medicine, and other practices into a higher-order "system of systems" to address human healing via action in multiple "dimensions" (biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual). In 1994, Weil founded and has since directed the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, today the [andrew weil Center for Integrative Medicine https://integrativemedicine.arizona.edu/about/index.html] at the University of Arizona in Tucson. As of 2015, Weil serves as an academician at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, where he is Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology, Clinical Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Public Health.