Dr. Nicola Finley is a board-certified internal medicine physician, fellowship-trained in Integrative Medicine, board-certified in obesity medicine, and Menopause Society certified. With over 25 years of experience caring for patients across luxury integrative medicine, underserved communities, primary care, academic medicine, workplace preventive medicine and residential wellness communities, Dr. Finley brings a uniquely comprehensive perspective to health and healing.
Her approach to medicine is grounded in a simple belief: your health is more than a diagnosis. It is shaped by your daily habits, your environment, your relationships, your goals, and the many factors that influence how you feel and function. Dr. Finley combines strong evidence-based medicine with the principles of integrative and preventive care to help patients understand their health and make meaningful, sustainable changes.
Throughout her career, Dr. Finley has cared for patients with complex chronic conditions including diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other metabolic concerns, while also developing a particular expertise in healthy aging, women’s health and lifestyle medicine. Her experience at Canyon Ranch allowed her to provide highly personalized integrative care, including executive health, metabolic health, menopause, specialty testing and comprehensive wellness consultations. Earlier in her career, she provided primary care to medically underserved communities, where she developed a deep appreciation for compassionate, accessible, whole-person care.
Today, Dr. Finley continues to bring together the best of conventional and integrative medicine through her clinical work, education, and preventive health initiatives. She is also an innovative physician-leader and educator who has developed evidence-based health programs and educational experiences for patients, healthcare professionals, and organizations across the country and globally.
Dr. Finley believes that good medicine should be both personal and practical. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all approach, she works to understand the individual behind the health concern and identify strategies that fit into real life. Her goal is not simply to treat illness, but to help patients become more informed, empowered and active participants in their own health.
Dr. Finley is an alumna of Brown University, George Washington University School of Medicine, the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine fellowship program, and she serves on the Global Wellness Summit Advisory Board. She champions the idea that wellness is something you practice, not just prescribe. For her, that means spending time with family and friends, traveling, taking a dance class and scuba diving.
Founding Director
Dr. E.Robert Schwartz, M.D., FAAFP is the founding director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health. He has had a life-long interest in integrative medicines approaches to patient care. Under his leadership the Osher Center is developing the ability to provide integrative and functional medicine, meditation, acupuncture and Ayurvedic care. Additionally, massage therapy, health coaching and approaches to musculo-skeletal interventions in a holistic approach to patient’s health are important contributors to overall well-being. Helping patients understand the right approaches to supplements will be an important part of our patient centered educational approach.
Dr Schwartz has a personal interest in Healthy Aging, which entails helping patients with key factors in their life, such as sleep, stress reduction, nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle factors contributing to poor health and illness. Understanding environmental toxins and the risk to overall well-being is also of significant importance to one’s health.
The Center is part of 10 other nationally recognized Osher programs throughout the country and enhances our ability to cooperate with advancing patient and medical student education in the field. Along with research which will be one of our top priorities we hope to enhance our patient’s ability to make better evidence-based choices for their health.