Robert Breakey, MD

Dr. Breakey is a fifth-generation graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School and has been a Family Physician in Ann Arbor for 35 years. He has a special interest in preventive medicine and supporting patients in optimizing the natural healing processes that we all have within us. He is Board certified in Lifestyle Medicine and serves as the Medical Director for IHA's "William J. Fileti Lifestyle Medicine Institute". He also serves as the Chairman of IHA's Governing Board.

Dr. Breakey has clinical interest in chronic disease management and preventive medicine through a Lifestyle Medicine approach. Lifestyle Medicine is a specialty of medicine which emphasizes increased physical activity, healthful whole food plant-based nutrition goals, improving sleep quality, avoiding risky substances, stress management and forming and maintaining supportive, healthy relationships. In caring for patients, Dr. Breakey believes in a collaborative team approach between physician, patient and specialists.