Dr. Dawn Molina’s path into integrative medicine began long before her formal training; shaped by profound personal loss and an early confrontation with the shortcomings of reactive healthcare. At just seven years old, she lost her mother to a sudden stroke. Years later, Dr. Molina learned that her mother likely carried the genetic cardiovascular risk factor lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], combined with carotid plaque that may have been dislodged during cervical chiropractic manipulation, tragically occurring in the absence of bloodwork or lipid monitoring that could have identified the risk. This early experience became the first quiet imprint of a truth she would later fully realize: disease does not appear suddenly; it develops silently, long before symptoms surface.

Her father’s passing reinforced this lesson. When Dr. Molina was twenty-five, her father died from acute myeloid leukemia (AML), likely downstream of decades of metabolic disease, including obesity, diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension, and lifelong smoking. Again, she saw how chronic physiological dysfunction accumulates quietly, unmanaged, until it manifests as catastrophic illness. These formative losses instilled a deep conviction that waiting for disease before acting is not medicine: it’s TRIAGE.

Before entering healthcare, Dr. Molina built a successful career as a telecommunications engineer, designing some of the earliest artificial intelligence systems used in interactive voice response (IVR) and speech recognition platforms. Her engineering background honed a lifelong commitment to systems thinking: understanding that complex outcomes arise from interconnected pathways rather than isolated failures. This analytical lens would later shape her entire medical philosophy.

At age twenty-three, she faced her own pivotal health moment when she was diagnosed with “general hyperlipidemia” and advised to begin statin therapy. Yet the clinical picture never aligned with the explanation she was given. She declined medication, sensing that the label addressed a number and not a cause. Years later, at age thirty-six, she self-sourced advanced lipid testing (LPP+), revealing the genetic cardiovascular risk factor Lp(a), confirming what conventional screening had missed entirely. What she experienced firsthand was the difference between surface-level treatment and root-cause medicine.

Determined to understand and practice medicine differently, she returned to school at age thirty-one, earning her Master’s degree in Food Science, grounding her expertise in human nutrition, metabolism, and biochemical interventions. From there, she expanded into clinical medicine, completing her Master’s in Oriental Medicine and ultimately obtaining her Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM).

In the state of Florida, Dr. Molina practices as a licensed Acupuncture Physician with primary care status, granting her authority to order comprehensive diagnostics and laboratory testing equivalent to traditional physicians; paired with advanced training and real knowledge of therapeutic nutrition, lifestyle medicine, botanical medicine, detoxification protocols, metabolic repair, and integrative therapeutics. Her combined background in engineering, nutrition science, and clinical medicine uniquely positions her to deliver precision, systems-based healthcare; treating the body not as compartmentalized symptoms, but as an interdependent metabolic network.

Today, Dr. Molina specializes in functional medicine and longevity medicine, guiding patients through the correction of underlying dysfunction and into sustained physiologic optimization. Her mission is rooted in personal experience: to prevent silent risks from becoming irreversible outcomes, empower patients with knowledge, and transform healthcare from crisis management into proactive life preservation.

Dr. Molina’s work bridges technology, nutrition, and advanced clinical therapeutics, offering patients not just longer lives, but healthier, more resilient ones.