James P. Frackelton, M.D. received his undergraduate education from Yale University and his MD degree from Case Western Reserve University. After an extra year in Immunology and hospital training, he spent two and a half years in the U.S. Navy where he served as a flight surgeon. He established practice in Westlake in 1958 emphasizing Family Practice with a specialty in Exercise Cardiology. As chairman of the Family Practice Department at Fairview General Hospital, he established the Family Practice Residency program.

In 1976, Dr. Frackelton changed the direction of his medical practice to emphasize Preventive Medicine and formed Preventive Medicine Group. After many years of studying biochemistry, he began teaching nutrient and detoxification therapies to alternative oriented physicians. As a founding member, he was elected President of the American College for Advancement in Medicine from 1985-87 and has continued to serve as an Advisor to the Board.

The philosophy of the medical practice is that the body is a self-repairing organism with the inherent ability of the body to repair itself given the proper nutrition, detoxification and appropriate therapies. For a summary of this concept, refer to information on Derrick Lonsdale, M.D.

As a recognized expert in preventive medicine, Dr. Frackelton has lectured physicians worldwide including Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Czechoslovakia and China. Dr. Frackelton has written a number of scientific articles for the medical literature. He holds two patents on medical subjects and recently authored the book, THE OWNER’S MANUAL FOR THE HUMAN BODY. He is an expert on heavy metal poisoning and its impact on the development of degenerative diseases.

Associated with Preventive Medicine Group is King James Medical Laboratory, Inc. and Westlake Laboratories, a nutritional supplement company. The closeness of the laboratory environment allows the physicians more understanding of the healing process. The supplement company has allowed us the ability to design nutrient supplements for the benefit of our patients.