ThomE.LobeM.D.

Thom E. Lobe, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P., is the founder and medical director of Beneveda Medical Group in Beverly Hills, California. A native of Baltimore, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1971 from George Washington University before attending medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree in 1975, graduating cum laude and with special honors in pediatrics. Dr. Lobe trained with the former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D. and with leading physicians at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Medical Schools. He then moved to Columbus, Ohio where he continued his training at The Ohio State University Hospital in general surgery and at The Children’s Hospital in pediatric surgery.

After completing his training he became the Chief of the Pediatric Surgery Service at the University of Texas, Galveston Medical Branch. He made national news as a leader on the   team to successfully separate a particularly difficult type of conjoined twins and perform a complex reconstruction of the airway. In 1988 he was selected to start the first pediatric surgery training program in the mid-south at the University of Tennessee and LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center. While there, Dr. Lobe distinguished himself by leading the world in the advancement of laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery in children and wrote the first textbook on the subject and pioneered many novel surgical techniques. He also founded the first medical journal dedicated exclusively to advanced surgical techniques in children, for which he is still the editor.

In 2004, Dr. Lobe joined Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. In this role he continued to pioneer advances in minimally invasive surgery. With his associates in Des Moines, he became the first to develop an advanced technique to perform major head and neck surgery through a set of small incisions in the armpit, leaving patients with no visible scars and virtually no pain or discomfort.

Throughout his career, Dr. Lobe has maintained a strong interest in complementary and alternative approaches to complex health problems. He developed one of the first instructional programs in the United States devoted to integrating complimentary medicine into the standard medical curriculum.

In the pursuit of excellence in his alternative medicine practice, Dr. Lobe has traveled the world and met with many of the leaders in the field, including Dr. Andrew Weil. He shared a position as advisor to the prestigious Institute for the Study of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with the Dr. Brian Berman, the preeminent founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Lobe has earned advanced degrees in naturopathic medicine, medical hypnosis and medical acupuncture. He is a leading writer in the field of complimentary medicine having written over 200 books, book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Lobe is currently working on his latest book, The Wellspring Within: Living Life in Harmony and Balance and continues to lecture worldwide. He has earned a Physician’s Executive Masters in Business Administration degree from the University Of Tennessee School Of Business. While achieving this advanced degree in the business of healthcare Dr. Lobe began to formulate his groundbreaking approach for a new kind of medical practice. His vision was to combine the best of conventional, complementary and alternative medicine in a way that could meet the specific needs of individual patients.

Dr. Lobe’s gift lies in his unique ability to quickly understand the signals your body is sending and to design a treatment program specific to your needs. His passion is to constantly learn more about the interplay between conventional, complementary and alternative medicine and to teach these principles of health, wellness and peak performance to healthcare professionals and people of all ages.