Who We Are
Peter Hinderberger, MD
I was born and raised in Switzerland, where I also attended medical school. Still in medical school I started my thesis in genetics (assessing the probability of potential carriers of hemophilia in female relatives of hemophiliacs using biochemical and genetic information).
Working on this scientific project, I realized the limitations of conventional medicine: The science of conventional medicine is based on analysis and statistics. These are not ideal tools because both methods require standardization. Individual human beings, their lives and environments, are the opposite from being standardized. They are always changing.
Statistics and analysis are the preferred methods for assessing changes of substances in a closed and controlled environment (example: changes of plastic exposed to different temperatures).
Statistics is the science of masses and can only reflect changes within a group of people; it does not take the individual into account. For an individual the chances of recovering from or succumbing to an illness are always 50%, that's a fact. An individual cannot know if they are in the group of the 3% who die or 97% who survive based on statistics. It is correct to say that a patient's chances of surviving are 97%, but "chances" are not facts.
Analysis is a good tool to study something by taking it apart and dividing it into smaller and smaller pieces until one reaches a single factor. Of course we cannot question the validity of the obtained results, and we should embody these findings in our assessment, but relying solely on these results will at the most help us in the short term like emergency medicine and surgery.
The study of the human organism is divided into biochemistry, physiology, anatomy, and genetics. These are four distinct sciences. However, all of them work in a healthy human organism together in synchrony 24/7.
The truth is that the human being, life, and our individual path are miraculous. By definition, miracles cannot be analyzed.
These insights led me on the quest to find a medical modality that is individualized and at the same time the results can be reproduced.
In 1978 I did part of my internship at the Lukas Klinik in Arlesheim, Switzerland. The clinic specializes in cancer using anthroposophic medicine (mistletoe, homeopathy, eurythmy [movement therapy], rhythmic massage, art and color therapy).
In 1979 I received my medical degree and in 1980 my Ph.D. from the University of Berne, Switzerland.
After extensive travels through India and Southeast Asia, my wife and I came to the United States in the fall of 1981. After I took the national boards in June 1982 I did an internship in surgery in a University of Massachusetts affiliated hospital in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
In the fall of 1983 we returned to Switzerland, where I spent another six months taking an intensive course in anthroposophic medicine and substituting for an anthroposophic doctor in his busy general practice.
In the spring of 1984 I opened my integrative medical practice at the Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center in Baltimore.
I am trained in classical homeopathy. I took professional courses in homeopathy from the National Center for Homeopathy and under master homeopaths George Vithoulkas and Jacque Imbrecht.
Over the last 10 years my practice changed dramatically and evolved into an integrative cancer clinic. I have been attending conferences in Europe and the USA in integrative oncology. I graduated from the International IV Nutritional Therapy Global Physician Education course in 2018. I am a presenter and mentor of the Mistletoe and Integrative Oncology Training series and International Postgraduate Medical Training series.
I live with my wife of 44 years and have 3 grown up children and am blessed with 2 grandchildren. I love the outdoors, classical music, esoteric studies, tinkering and yard work.
Peter Hinderberger, MD, PhD
Denarah Ferron, PA-C
Denarah has been interested in herbalism since childhood when she spent hours wildcrafting herbal remedies. She went on to study environmental ecology at Mount Holyoke College to be able to spend time outdoors in the natural world. Her family legacy of healers shone through in her early adulthood while she explored Reiki and Quantum Touch healing modalities. She became a massage therapist and is still a certified health coach, yet still felt a calling to do more to help clients. She attended George Washington University and became a nationally certified Physician Assistant and continued to explore root-cause medicine, especially feeling drawn to holistic and integrative philosophies which empower patients. She loves partnering with patients to set goals and plans that follow patients’ values. She is a certified Neuro Emotional Technique practitioner, certified in NADA, a form of auricular acupuncture, and has taken countless continuing education at the Institute of Functional Medicine, Dr. Weil’s classes
at the University of Arizona’s, and loves sharing clinical understanding with patients to help them better understand their own unique health to be able to make informed choices. She is thrilled to become a member of the Raphael Clinic of Maryland.
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Cathy Pasterer
Over the years of my husband and I raising our five children, Dr. Hinderberger helped us with everything from "plagiocephaly" to "vitiligo" and "phytophotodermatitis". I came on board at the office in November of 2021 after homeschooling our children through high school and running out of family and friends who needed help! Natural medicine has been my go-to for many years. I often joke that garlic is my "drug of choice". I love looking up remedies for friends and family as well as keeping up with medical developments. Spiritually, the greatest thing in my life has been giving up control of my life to God and accepting the gift of God mentioned in Romans 3:23. It has been an incredible journey from which I have never looked back! I love sharing this hope with others, encouraging Bible reading and child-like faith in a loving Father, and praying with those who are bearing a burden whether strangers or long-time friends.