Meet Dr. Constantine A. Kotsanis
Medical director and board-certified otolaryngologist Dr. Constantine Kotsanis has practiced medicine since 1983. As the founder of Kotsanis Institute of Functional Medicine, Dr. Kotsanis has focused his private medical practice and his research on wellness and anti-aging medicine. He is also certified in clinical nutrition and is known for combining nutrition counseling and anti-aging therapies for many ailments. Dr. Kotsanis' mission is to change the way health is delivered to the world – one person at a time. He continues to be invited to speak to physicians and consumers on medical topics he specializes in, such as integrative cancer therapy, insulin potentiation therapy (IPT), allergies, autism spectrum disorders, nutrition, and research in functional medicine. He treats patients based on each person's physical, metabolic, and biochemical makeup.
Dr. Kotsanis was also a clinical assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School between 1995 and 2006 and a founding member of Defeat Autism Now! (DAN) in 1995.
Skills and Specialties
Dr. Kotsanis’ private medical practice focuses on patient wellness and anti-aging. Specialties include integrative cancer therapy, IPT, allergy, autism spectrum, disorders, nutrition, and more. He treats patients based on the individual’s physical, metabolic, and biochemical makeup. Dr. Kotsanis is known to combines nutrition counseling and anti-aging therapies for different ailments.
Education and training
Dr. Kotsanis earned his medical degree from The University of Athens Medical School in Athens, Greece. He completed a residency in otolaryngology at Loyola University of Chicago in 1983. He is board-certified in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery. Dr. Kotsanis is also licensed by the Arizona State Board of Homeopathic Medicine, trained in medical acupuncture at UCLA, certified in clinical nutrition and insulin potentiation therapy, (IPT) and can also instruct other medical professionals to make and administer IPT. Dr. Kotsanis has also studied botanical medicine as well as taken neural therapy courses from Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt MD PhD.
Personal
A note from Dr. Kotsanis:
I was born in Greece and came to the United States as a teenager. My family settled in Chicago, where I attended Austin High School and went to Northern Illinois University (go Huskies!). I then returned to Greece for medical school at the University of Athens. I did my specialty training in otolaryngology (head and neck surgery) at Loyola University of Chicago, which is where I met and married my wife, Beverly.
Life has always been an adventure. Bev and I have two wonderful adult children, Andrew and Katerina, who add spice to an already busy schedule. Both of the kids have participated in this practice over the years.
Although I began my medical career quite conventionally, at one point (some years after beginning medical practice), I began to experience health problems. After extensive testing, I was told nothing was wrong with me. All I knew was that I was in pain, fatigued, and experienced severe gastrointestinal issues. This experience taught me that sometimes you have to look for answers in less conventional places. This was before Google existed and before the Internet was readily available to most people. I had to find my answers the old-fashioned way: books, journal articles, and discussing solutions with other sick people.
I come from a large family. My father was the eldest of 18 siblings. I am the youngest of seven siblings (three brothers and four sisters). As you can imagine, with a family that large, and with people as mobile as they are these days, we now have family all over the world.
