• BA, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
• MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
• Residency - Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College, Houston, TX
• Fellowship – Perinatology, Baylor College, Houston, TX
• Graduate, Applied Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice course (AFMCP), Institute for Functional Medicine, Gig Harbor, WA
• Teacher - Functional Endocrinology, AFMCP, nationwide

Dr. Hays has practiced obstetrics and gynecology, and now Functional Medicine, over a career lasting 32 years. In describing the focus of her career at present – she said:

“I went into medicine to help people be healthier, but what I found in medicine was a system that was as sick as the people it was treating. Ultimately I realized that my calling was to heal the system as well as the patients. I have three areas that I feel are important enough to put my time, energy and monetary resources into. They are:

• creating a model for integrative care that treats illness upstream before it requires drugs and surgery,
• finding better ways to train physicians, and
• providing better end of life care, essentially, learning to die better”

Her practice includes: comprehensive women’s health care, Functional Medicine, non-surgical gynecology and mind-body medicine. She is a co-founder of True North.