Amy Doneen

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Dr. Amy Lynn Doneen (born in 1969) is an American doctor of nursing practice (DNP)[1] and co-founder of the influential BaleDoneen Method for the prevention of heart attack, stroke and type 2 diabetes, and for treatment after one of these medical events.[2][3] She has been called a “risk detective”[4] because her method uses advanced laboratory and imaging tests to look for hidden signs of cardiovascular disease or increased risk for developing it[5] in seemingly healthy patients.

Doneen is also the owner and medical director of the Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center in Spokane, Washington,[6][7] one of the first facilities of its kind to offer its patients a written guarantee of arterial wellness.[8][9][10] Since 2002, she has given more than 600 presentations to medical groups, and has published her research in many peer-reviewed journals.[11][12][13]

Doneen holds professorships at Washington State University School of Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Dentistry and Texas Tech University Health Science Center.[11][14]

Early life and medical education[edit]

Doneen received her Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) and Registered Nurse (RN) degrees from Spokane Community College.[15] After graduating from nursing school, Doneen worked for 10 years as a registered nurse.[16]

Doneen received her Bachelor of Nursing Science (BSN), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) degrees from Gonzaga University. While in graduate school, she became interested in heart disease in women, which she says is consistently overlooked and misdiagnosed.[17] In 2012, she returned to Gonzaga and in 2014, she became the first graduate of its Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program (summa cum laude), where she is remembered as one of its “champions of change.”[18]

Origin and development of the BaleDoneen Method[edit]

In 2000, while working on her graduate school dissertation at Gonzaga, Doneen met Bradley Field Bale, then a family physician in Spokane whose practice focused on early detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease, with the aim of preventing heart attacks and strokes.[14][15] “He had already been pioneering a clinical paradigm of prevention,” Doneen stated in a 2010 interview with NEWS-Line for Nurse Practitioners.[13]

Intrigued by one of the pioneering screening technologies Bale was using to check for hidden signs of arterial disease in seemingly healthy patients, called electron beam tomography (EBT), Doneen created a thesis project to compare the efficacy of EBT with traditional cardiovascular risk assessments, such as the Framingham Risk Score. Her dissertation, titled “The Relationship between Electron Beam Computed Tomography Calcium Scores and established Clinical and Serologic Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease,” was published in 2003 by University Press.[19]

In 2004, she and Bale cofounded the BaleDoneen Method for the Prevention of Heart Attacks, Ischemic Strokes and Diabetes. Based on published, peer-reviewed research, the method employs a genetically guided, precision medicine approach to preventing, detecting and treating cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death globally. The goal of the method is to prevent heart attack, stroke and type 2 diabetes.[6][20]

Since 2005, Doneen and Bale have taught their method to medical and dental providers in their continuing medical education Preceptorship Course, presented twice a year in major cities across the United States.[3][10][21] About 1,000 healthcare providers use the BaleDoneen Method.[22]

Effectiveness of the BaleDoneen Method[edit]

Two recent peer-reviewed studies have evaluated the effectiveness of the BaleDoneen Method. In a 2016 retrospective study published in Archives of Medical Science, researchers from Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease analyzed data from 324 patients who had received comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction treatments that included lipid-lowering medications, lifestyle modification and additional therapies for those with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome and other cardiovascular risks.[23] The study reported striking decreases in the size of plaque deposits and significant improvements in levels of blood pressure, HDL (good) cholesterol, LDL (bad) cholesterol in the first year of treatment with the BaleDoneen Method, and these trends continued in the second year of treatment. An earlier study of 576 patients treated at Doneen’s clinic also reported significant improvements in plaque burden and various cardiovascular risk factors over an eight-year period.[24]

Scientific publications and reception of ideas[edit]

Doneen has published her scientific research in many leading scientific journals, including Atherosclerosis, Circulation, Journal of Clinical Lipidology, Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Cardiology, International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices, Archives of Medical Science, Cranio: The Journal of Craniomandibular & Sleep Practice and others.

In 2013, Doneen co-wrote with Bradley Bale and Lisa Collier Cool the book, Beat the Heart Attack Gene: The Revolutionary Plan to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke and Diabetes. ISBN 9781118454299. This influential book was published in hardcover, softcover, electronic and audio editions, and received extensive media coverage.[25][26][27][28][29][30][31]

Notable among Doneen’s peer-reviewed scientific publications is a 2017 paper in Postgraduate Medical Journal titled, “High-risk periodontal pathogens contribute to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis.”[32] A HuffingtonPost article described the paper as “groundbreaking,” and reported that Doneen and study coauthor Bradley Bale had “received acclaim from the scientific community” because their evidence-based paper was the first to identify oral bacteria from periodontal (gum) disease as not simply a risk factor, but a contributing cause of cardiovascular disease.”[33]

A 2017 article in Inside Dentistry described the paper as “landmark” and “the next paradigm shift in dentistry.”[34] Doneen and Bale’s publication received favorable coverage from other dental media outlets,[35][36][37][38] which suggested that this discovery shows how “dentists are saving lives, not just cleaning teeth”[39] by testing patients for high-risk oral bacteria and aggressively treating those with periodontal disease, a chronic oral infection that affects about half of U.S. adults aged 30 years or older.[40][41]

Guarantee of arterial wellness[edit]

Since 2005, Doneen has been the owner and medical director of the Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center in Spokane, Washington, a private clinical practice that treats patients using the BaleDoneen Method.[6][7]

The clinic offers its patients a written guarantee stating that if they suffer a heart attack or stroke while under Doneen’s care, they will receive a refund of all fees paid to her in the previous year. Since its inception, the clinic has only given two refunds even though most of its patients have major cardiovascular risk factors, and some have previously suffered heart attacks or strokes while under the care of other medical providers.[10]

In 2015, Doneen and Bale launched a new nonprofit organization called the Institute of Arteriology.[20] The institute is a registered 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to advancing “arteriology,” the study of arteries, and conducting research. One of its objectives, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “is the establishment of a longitudinal, interventional registry of patients who have been screened to assess their cardiovascular disease risk by evaluating their subclinical arterial disease state and then treated to optimize arterial health.”[42][43]

Personal life[edit]

Born Amy Lynn Hubbard to American parents in Heidelberg, Germany, Doneen married her high school sweetheart, Daren Doneen, in 1994. The couple has three children, Sydney, Devin and Sophie.[18] Doneen spent her childhood in East Glacier, Montana, where she developed a lifelong love of the outdoors.[15]

She is an avid marathon runner and has completed the Boston Marathon three times, and nearly 20 other marathons. In 2013, she was stopped just short of the finish line by the police due to the Boston Marathon bombing, but was uninjured. She returned and completed the marathon the following year.[44][45]

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