Tania Neubauer, ND

I began my study of the healing arts in Oakland, California at the Pacific School of Herbal Medicine, the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine, and reSource Massage. While training as an herbalist, I worked at the Berkeley Free Clinic for four years as a community health worker and counselor. My time at the Free Clinic convinced me to become a doctor and change the institution of medicine from within, working to provide access to the highest-quality healthcare for all people as a basic human right. I had the great good fortune to deepen my knowledge of herbalism by studying in the Arizona desert at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine with Michael Moore before beginning naturopathic school.

During my first naturopathic clinical rotation, I traveled to Nicaragua as part of a medical delegation. Our work in the hospital on the island of Ometepe and the Maria Luisa Ortiz Women’s Clinic in Mulukuku showed me both a harrowing need and a tantalizing glimpse of cross-border solidarity. I later returned to live and work in Nicaragua with Natural Doctors International. I lived for 15 months on the island of Ometepe, practicing general family medicine in a government hospital in a place where there are fewer than 15 doctors for a population of 40,000 islanders. From the moment I walked in the door, my clinic was packed. I got a chance to do what many doctors in the US no longer ever experience – to be a community doctor.

I returned to Portland in 2008 to begin practice at La Clinica de Guadalupe, an affordable clinic mainly serving the Spanish-speaking community in Salem, and in Portland at Common Ground Wellness Center, a healing-arts worker cooperative and bathhouse. I continue to serve on the Board of Directors of Natural Doctors International, to help make natural medicine accessible all over the world.

About the name: Corazon, which means heart in Spanish, signifies my commitment to be a heart-centered doctor, as well as the bilingual nature of my practice.