Dr. Kazal is a practicing family physician and medical acupuncturist, an Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, and former Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow. Dr. Kazal’s experience is a combination of formal training in medical research and teaching, and three decades of clinical practice (the last 12 including acupuncture). He has successfully conducted practice-based and academic-based research, has extensive health policy experience, and mentored medical students and medical residents. During his extensive career he has served in numerous leadership roles. As an Adjunct Professor at Southern California University of Health Sciences, Dr. Kazal collaborated with the SCU research team on numerous occasions leading to impactful research on innovative non-pharmacologic care of spine-related pain disorders, including a study demonstrating the effect of chiropractic care on the management of low back pain in a primary care setting, and studies demonstrating correlations between chiropractic care and reduced opioid use and adverse drug events. Dr. Kazal’s areas of interest include integration of complementary and alternative medicine in primary care, medical acupuncture, iron deficiency in infants and young children, use of handheld ultrasound in ambulatory primary care, and health policy.

Dr. Kazal received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia and his BS from Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.