Dr. Devin Mikles practiced internal and integrative medicine and homeopathy in the Verde Valley for 27 years.  He taught medical students and Internal Medicine Residents from the University of Arizona School of Medicine and Midwestern School of Osteopathic Medicine for 20 years and was the medical director of the nonprofit Northern Arizona Hospice program for 20 years. He founded and ran the award-winning physician continuing medical education program at Verde Valley Medical Center for 15 years.

Dr. Mikles’ dream was to provide patients with a full range of healing options, which he achieved through developing Choices Integrative Healthcare of Sedona. For over 20 years, he brought together the alternative and medical communities offering his patients multiple systems of treatment and a wide variety of healing modalities.  This was an amazing gift to our community. 

 

He was forced to retire early due to the progression of the Parkinson’s disease. Those who know him can see that he has battled the disease with much courage and devotion, hoping against all odds to find a treatment that would allow him to return to practicing medicine, especially to help the growing number of otherwise healthy people who have this disease, and to live out his natural life without the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s.

 

Through constant vigilance of global research and treatments of Parkinson’s, Devin recently found a breakthrough medical treatment that has the potential to reverse the disease to the level of the pre-symptomatic stage, and potentially cure this disease.

 

Even more important than Devin’s personal recovery is the expert wisdom and knowledge of medicine, and now of Parkinson's Disease, that he has been sharing on a one-to-one basis with those who reach out to him. He has lived with this disease for 20 years, and until the last few years, did very well. His understanding is helping many other people, and because he is otherwise healthy, returning to an asymptomatic state would allow Devin to continue to help many more.