About our doctor
Dr. Cymanthia Connell
is an integrative and board-certified family doctor born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She is the founder and Medical Director of Bridge Direct Primary Care. Her family, friends and patients affectionately refer to her as “Dr. Cyam”. Dr. Cyam is trained in Canada, the Caribbean and the USA. She graduated from McGill University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Anatomy & Cell Biology. She obtained her Medical Degree with honors from Ross University School of Medicine. She then went on to complete her Family Medicine residency as Chief Resident at Atlanta Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine to complement her MD with her passion for nutrition and botanical medicine. Dr. Cyam is a proud ambassador for healthy everyday living to prevent illness and incorporates the promotion of this lifestyle in her practice
What is an Integrative doctor?
An integrative medicine doctor is an MD or DO who went to medical school to be trained in conventional “western medicine” but has also been trained in other natural, holistic or “alternative” medicine using tools in nutrition, supplements, herbal medicine, mindfulness practices, functional medicine, Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine just to name a few.