Who we are
A practice built out of conviction.
Who We Are
After a combined 25 years of experience working in internal medicine, co-founders Sarah and Adeel began noticing the same pattern: patients were living longer, but most still didn’t feel well. Fatigue, inflammation, digestive issues, poor sleep, chronic pain, and metabolic dysfunction–often times symptoms they couldn’t explicitly “name”, were becoming increasingly common. Yet conventional medicine largely leaves patients managing symptoms without ever addressing why those symptoms were happening in the first place.
Ivy House Integrative Health was created to offer a more thoughtful, root-cause approach to care. We combine evidence-based medicine with nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and holistic therapies to better understand what’s driving illness — and to help patients feel well again, not just a set of “normal” labs.
We believe good medicine should be personalized, collaborative, and focused on long-term health rather than short-term symptom management.
Why “Ivy House”?
The name Ivy House is deeply personal.
Sarah grew up in the heart of Lake Country on her family’s small dairy farm. The farm was headed by Grandpa Clarence–the patriarch of the family, alongside her Dad. Long before “organic” and “holistic health” had names, Grandpa Clarence believed deeply in the connection between the land, nutrition, and overall wellbeing. The old stone farmhouse — speckled in delicate English ivy — became a symbol of those shared values and the foundation for the kind of care Adeel and Sarah strive to provide today: thoughtful, grounded, and rooted in healing from the inside out.
Adeel Kamal
Physician Associate
After graduating from PA school in 2015, Adeel began his career in hospital and emergency medicine, where he spent the next decade caring for patients in high-pressure clinical settings. During that time, he gained extensive medical experience — but also a deeper understanding of the limitations of conventional care.
He began to notice a recurring pattern: patients would leave with a prescription, only to return later with the same issue, slightly altered or often worse. This cycle led Adeel to look beyond symptom management and explore a more root-cause approach to health. He enrolled in a rigorous academic program with the American Academy of Functional Health, where he received his certification. Today, his work focuses on uncovering the deeper drivers of illness — hormonal imbalances, environmental triggers, nutritional deficiencies, broader systemic dysfunction. Adeel believes patients deserve answers, not just prescriptions.
Sarah Newburg
Physician Associate
Sarah graduated with a bachelor’s in biochemistry and went on to receive her master’s in PA Studies through the Mayo-Gunderson program in 2013. Her career since graduating has largely been focused in hospital medicine. While she was passionate about the medicine she practiced, she often felt it “fell short” — never truly identifying the why, instead approaching the problem by treating the symptoms with pharmaceuticals.
Three years ago, her otherwise healthy 65-year-old mom had a stroke. The work-up was negative; Sarah already knew what they would be told — “take this pill and hope it doesn’t happen again.” Something clicked. Why is that good enough? Plainly — it isn’t. She soon enrolled in the American Academy of Functional Health and received her certification. Her passion is taking an individualized approach to determining the root cause and employing practical, natural, science-based interventions to improve a person’s overall well-being.