About Us

Dr. Frances Meredith, MD

Frances Meredith MD, board certified both by American Board of Internal Medicine and Institute of Functional Medicine, provided Primary Care and Infectious Disease expertise in the Triangle for over 20 years. She now practices purely Functional Medicine since 2017. Her passion for improving concussion care has grown from the intersection of her 2016 career shift to “root cause” Functional Medicine and concussions in both patients and those near and dear to her. After medical school and residency at University of Virginia School of Medicine, fellowship training at Duke Medical Center in Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, followed by 20 years of practice in Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease, she realized that she must make a change in her life and her career. She began to recognize that the reactive “Bandaid” traditional model of medicine was serving neither patient nor provider well. She is so grateful to have been led to Functional Medicine, a new model of wellness, one that is proactive and root caused based. In practice since 2017 with Carolina Total Wellness, she sees many patients with complex, chronic, multi-system illnesses, many of whom suffer with fatigue, brain fog, migraines, intestinal disturbances, immune dysfunction, and hormonal and mood imbalance. Most of these patients have felt unheard by the traditional medical community. She values the most important skill she has learned from Functional Medicine: ask the right questions, then be quiet and listen. Often she finds a pivot point in the life of a chronically ill patient. It may be an infection, a trauma, or a concussion. Concussion, however, can be difficult to determine, as frequently we do not remember our head traumas. Slowly as she “peels the onion” layer by layer, concussion she finds is often a huge factor in significant health shifts.On a personal level, she is a Mom of three children, an Argentine tango dancer, and appreciator of all things music.