Five Journeys
A larger multi-provider functional-medicine organization offering primary care options, memberships, telemedicine, specialty testing, wellness services, and two Boston-area locations.
The care team
Who would actually see you, and what they trained in.
Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA
Tufts University MD; residency in Tufts-affiliated programs. President of the National Celiac Association and co-author of “Dirty Girl.” Her own history with mold and metal toxicity and celiac disease shapes her focus on women’s health and detoxification.
Edward Levitan, MD, ABoIM
Physician and co-founder · integrative & family medicine
Board certified in Family Medicine; American Board of Integrative Medicine
Bernice Wong, MD
Physician · geriatric concierge medicine
Board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics (ABIM) · 20+ years in Boston geriatrics
Tamer Khafagy, MD
Physician · functional primary care
Internist and hospital medicine physician · 20+ years in the Boston area
Team, training and credentials as described by the clinic on its website.
What this clinic can help you evaluate or manage
Plain-language goals come first. The clinic’s named tests, treatments and programs stay below for people who want the technical detail.
Four physicians combining primary care with functional assessment and specialty labs.
Establish where you stand today, before symptoms show up.
Clinic lists primary care, specialty labs and functional assessment.See diabetes direction and insulin resistance early, before they become disease.
Clinic lists cardiometabolic care, nutrition and testing.Separate hormonal change from everything else it gets blamed for.
Clinic lists hormone health and fertility care, led by an OB-GYN.Investigate persistent gut symptoms with real testing.
Clinic publishes digestive-health and celiac-focused expertise.Services explained
Plain-language groupings help make different clinic service menus easier to understand and compare.
Care services
The practice combines functional medicine with primary-care, pediatric and remote-care options.
Care domains
Common health areas addressed across the clinic’s multidisciplinary team.
Wellness suite (published prices)
In-clinic wellness modalities with published per-session prices, members save 25%. Medical IVs (heavy-metal detox, oncology support) require a consultation or membership and are booked by phone.
Support
Nutrition, education, specialty testing and nursing support that may complement medical care.
What the clinic publishes
Every figure above carries the billing basis the clinic published with it. Prices reflect clinic-published information and may change. Confirm inclusions and current fees directly with the clinic.
Published signals beyond the physician
Clinic-level memberships, institutional relationships and published positions. Physician training and board-certification claims are shown in the care team above.
Practical information
Important planning details gathered from clinic-published information. Confirm anything that may affect your visit directly with the clinic.
Questions worth asking this clinic
Drawn from what the clinic’s own materials leave open. Useful for a first call or consult.