Anne Marie Chomat, MD, PhD, MPH


Transformation Life & Wellbeing Coach, Internal Medicine Physician (non-practicing)

Bio

Anne Marie Chomat, MD, PhD, MPH, is a non-practicing Internal Medicine physician whose work integrates medical insight with systems-based, somatic, and relational approaches to healing and wellbeing.

At Madrona, Anne Marie offers individualized, non-clinical healing guidance that complements medical and counselling care. She supports people seeking time and space to make sense of complex health histories, life transitions, or experiences of depletion and disconnection — with the aim of restoring coherence, vitality, personal agency, and trust in the body’s innate wisdom.

Her approach is transdisciplinary and integrative, rooted in deep listening, pattern recognition, and an understanding of health as shaped by biological, emotional, relational, and environmental influences. Drawing on her training in medicine, coaching, somatic practice, and contemplative traditions, she helps clients recognize patterns across their health and life experience and reconnect with the inner resources that support healing and resilience.

Anne Marie also draws from her training in woman-centered transformational coaching and group facilitation and has extensive experience holding individual and group spaces for reflection, healing, and life transition. Her work is further informed by embodied, movement-based, and depth-oriented practices that support nervous system regulation and integration.

Anne Marie trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and completed a Master of Public Health to expand her focus beyond individual physiology toward the social, cultural, and structural influences on health. Her doctoral research explored intergenerational stress and its impacts on maternal and infant health across biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and historical dimensions.

For over 25 years she has worked alongside individuals and communities across five continents, with long-term engagement in the Global South. Since 2009, she has co-founded and helped lead Buena Semilla, a grassroots Indigenous Maya women-led initiative in Guatemala focused on collective healing, cultural repair, and the restoration of personal and collective agency. This work has profoundly shaped her understanding of health as place-based, relational, and inseparable from identity, culture, and belonging.

Anne Marie offers sessions in English, Spanish, and French.

Education& Clinical training

  • Doctor of Medicine (MD) — Jefferson Medical College, USA (2003)

  • Postgraduate Clinical Training — Internal Medicine (2006) & Infectious Diseases (2009), Tufts Medical Center, USA

  • Masters of Public Health in Global Health (MPH) — Tufts University School of Medicine, USA (2009)
    PhD — Transdisciplinary Intergenerational Stress Research, McGill University (2016)

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship — Participatory Action Research, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University (2016–2019)

Professional Memberships

  • Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine 2006–2019; Infectious Diseases 2009–2019)

  • Former Licensed Physician — Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA (2005–2019)

  • Former Adjunct Instructor — Tufts University School of Medicine (2009–2020)

coaching & facilitation training

  • Woman-Centered Coaching & Facilitation Certification — Institute of Woman-Centered Coaching (since 2024)

  • Women’s Circle Leader Certification — Global Sisterhood (2019)

  • Trauma-Sensitive Practitioner Certification — HeartMath / The Resilient Heart (2026)

Somatic, Embodiment & Transformational Practice

  • Kundalini Dance Facilitator Training (in progress)
    Temple Guide Training — Priestess Presence (2022)

  • Multi-year Archetypal & Transformational Leadership Training — Priestess Presence (since 2020)

  • SpiralDancing Life Apprenticeship — Eco-psychology & Nature-Based Practice (Yracébûrû EarthWisdom, 2021–present)

  • Theatre of the Oppressed Facilitation — Metoca, Guatemala (2009-2010)

  • Social & Transcultural Psychiatry; Indigenous Health Perspectives — McGill University (2011-2016)

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