Colleen Rivers, MD

Colleen attended New York University School of Medicine and completed her training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. There she served as Chief Resident during her final year and accepted the Clinical Excellence Award at graduation. She then pursued a fellowship in medical toxicology at New York University and the New York City Poison Control Center. She is board certified in both emergency medicine and medical toxicology. Additionally, she studied nutrition and health coaching at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. 

Initially drawn to medicine during her mother’s battle with breast cancer, Colleen’s commitment was only strengthened when she also lost her father to pancreatic cancer. She has practiced emergency medicine for over a decade in a variety of environments ranging from large academic medical centers to small community hospitals. While Colleen loves the clinical challenges of emergency medicine and the opportunity to connect with patients in their most vulnerable moments, her practice has also alarmed her to the tremendous chronic disease burden that can be prevented or reversed by changes in lifestyle.

Colleen founded Seek in an effort to broaden her practice of healing and work with clients in a unique way; going beyond the education model of preventative medicine and working intensively with clients to make small lifestyle modifications that have a tremendous cumulative effect. She believes in the integration of mind, body and spirit in overall health and well-being, and guides clients to transform their own health and their lives over time. 

Colleen lives in Southern California with her husband and four children. She spends her free time at the beach, reading and enjoying her family.