Beth Baughman DuPree, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Dr. Beth DuPree's impressive credentials do not capture the humanitarian spirit with which she treats her patients, friends, and acquaintances. Dr. DuPree is a general surgeon with a focus in breast cancer care and the CEO and medical director of the Comprehensive Breast Care Institute at DSI of Bucks County, PA. She believes that using a holistic approach to healing a patient is extremely important. It is her position that marrying both holistic therapies with state-of-the-art, leading-edge technology can lead to better outcomes-even in people with life-threatening disease, such as cancer.

Dr. DuPree strongly urges her patients to get alternative healing support, whether it is through clinical psychological therapy, spiritual assistance, grief counseling, exercise programs, reflexology, nutritional counseling, Reiki, Yoga, or massage. In fact, she herself has participated in all and believes that "whatever it takes to help a person find healing and peace is the way to curing them."

This vibrant, witty mother of two sons, whose skin-sparing mastectomies with plastic surgeon Robert Skalicky, D.O., were featured live on the Internet in October 1999, has won numerous awards for her medical work as well as her humanitarian endeavors. The mastectomy Web cast and subsequent television documentary received a Gracie Allen Award in New York City in April 2000. Additionally, Dr. DuPree was given the Clara Barton Humanitarian Award from the American Red Cross in 2002, the Visions of Hope Award in December 2002, the Northampton Township Citizen of the Month in February 2003, and the Women Pioneering the Future Award from the Pennsylvania Commission for Women in March 2003. She is on the advisory committee for Gilda's Club and the Young Survivor's Coalition for Young Breast Cancer Survivors.

Dr. DuPree, who received her medical degree from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia in 1987, published her first book in June of 2006, titled The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing. The proceeds from the book have allowed her to create The Healing Consciousness Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing healing therapies for breast cancer survivors. She has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences and seminars, primarily in addressing breast cancer treatment and healing. Read more about Dr. Dupree's philosophy and practice at www.comprehensivebreastcare.com or www.dsi-bucks.com.

A native of York, Pennsylvania, Dr. DuPree lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with her husband Joe and their two sons. Dr. DuPree credits her accomplishments to her family's constant, unwavering support of her passions.