Dr Valerie Donaldson
Dr Valerie Donaldson, MD
Dr. Valerie Donaldson is the Founder and Medical Director of Regenerative Medicine Center.
She graduated from Rush Medical College and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and certified in Anti-Aging Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Stem Cell Therapy. As an attending physician at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital Emergency Department, she authored research papers on the effects of Incubation Techniques on the Traumatic Cervical Spine and the use of lab results in the Emergency Room.
Dr. Donaldson prides herself in being ahead of her time in many areas of medicine.
After leaving the ER in pursuit of her passion in Anti-Aging, Functional Medicine, and stem cell therapy, Dr. Donaldson was the first attending physician at the first complementary center in Pittsburgh, UPMC Center for Complementary Medicine under the direction of Lewis Mel-Madrona, MD.
She left UPMC Complementary Medicine Center to open a solo practice. Here she became the first physician in Pittsburgh to be certified in Anti-Aging Medicine.
Pursuing her passion in studying bioidentical hormones, she was the first physician in Pittsburgh to attend international courses in bioidentical hormone replacement, to be certified in the Wiley Protocol, and be a certified BioTe Hormone pellet specialist.
In 2000, Dr. Donaldson became the first doctor in the world to introduce vibroacoustic, color and light therapy now called Light Portal™ into her practice allowing her patients a meditative experience which she feels is important throughout life.
In 2010 she became certified in autologous stem cell therapy being the first medical doctor to combine stem cell therapy, cytokine and vitamin complex, and Light Portal™ for acute and chronic diseases. In 2016, she found amniotic fluid injections, cleared by the FDA, to be more efficacious than stem cell therapy for specific problems and has combined this with the meditative experience of Light Portal™.
Her approach considers research from a whole body perspective and by spending a considerable amount of time with every patient to attempt to get to the root of their health concerns by connecting the dots of their health and history to shape a unique treatment plan because no two people are the same.
Dr. Donaldson developed a personalized concierge service designed to offer patients exclusive contact with her and her team. She continues to train her team and collect her own research data to expand patient options for being their best self. The ultimate goal is to improve quality of life by providing patients with the knowledge and tools that engage health and wellness.
Dr. Donaldson realizes that many people end up exploring the holistic route because they have exhausted other methods to help them feel good. Her patients recognize her extraordinary passion to help empower her patients to optimize their healthy lifestyles for the mind, body and spirit.
In her words, “I offer hope to people who have no hope. I do this by passionately searching for the cause in order to appropriately treat the underlying dysfunction. I don’t believe patients are drug deficient, but are out of balance in their biochemical, nutritional, hormonal, emotional, and/or spiritual makeup. One must find where the individual is out of balance and correct it in order to sustain wellness.”