Meet Leora

  • Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer

    Dr. Shah is a board-certified primary care physician in Internal Medicine with advanced training in health education, public health, advocacy, and outcomes research. Her work reflects a lifelong commitment to health equity, compassionate care, and the creation of systems that truly serve. With over a decade of partnership with nonprofit organizations, she has helped design and implement more than twenty community-based projects that continue to expand healthcare access for underserved populations.

    As an experienced medical educator, Dr. Shah has shaped interprofessional learning environments where collaboration and empathy stand at the heart of patient care. She has played a key role in developing innovative clinical skills curricula that blend medicine and engineering — preparing future physicians to think creatively and compassionately in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.

    A naturally gifted mentor, she has guided countless medical students, residents, and professionals, offering wisdom and support as they grow through the challenges of service. Her mentorship philosophy centers on self-awareness, balance, and advocacy for both individuals and systems.

  • Outside of medicine, Ruby is a wife, mother, poet, and lifelong lover of the written word. An avid reader and writer, she spends much of her time with a book in hand or putting her own words to paper. She is the author of Night Song For My Sisters: Endometriosis, Infertility, Loss, and Healing, a collection of poetry born from her own experiences with infertility, loss, and healing. For Ruby, reading and writing are more than favorite pastimes. They are ways of making meaning, finding connection, and giving language to the parts of life that can be difficult to name.

  • Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

    Stacie Larrison is a dedicated advocate for patients navigating chronic illness, infertility, chronic pain, and autoimmune disease. With a background in both nonprofit and healthcare leadership, she blends strategic insight with deep compassion to reimagine how care is delivered for those who have often felt unseen.

    A Somatic & Reiki Integration Practitioner, Stacie is certified in Reiki Levels I and II. Her work bridges nervous system education, trauma-informed care, and energetic healing, supporting children and adults in learning how to center, regulate, and gently reset their nervous systems.

    As a facilitator, she guides individuals through creative and embodied practices that foster mindful connection and emotional processing. An author and eclectic artist, Stacie teaches the restorative power of creativity as a healing modality—using art to process emotion, deepen self-understanding, and rebuild resilience.

  • Outside of Leora, Stacie is a wife, mother of two, writer, artist, and endlessly curious creative. She is happiest making something, dreaming something up, or finding beauty and meaning in the ordinary parts of life. Creativity has always been central to who she is, whether through writing, art, music, or creating spaces where people feel comfortable being fully themselves.

    Her greatest joy is her family, and motherhood has profoundly shaped both the woman she has become and the work she brings into the world. Stacie is the author of Mother Nurture, a collection of letters exploring motherhood, healing, identity, and the complicated ways women learn to care for themselves while caring for everyone around them.

    At heart, she is a nurturer, a question asker, and a believer that life can hold science and spirituality, seriousness and play, healing and creativity all at once.

Modern Solutions To A Fractured System

Leora began with two women who came to healthcare from very different places and found themselves asking the same question:

What would care look like if we had the freedom to do it differently?

Dr. Ruby Shah had spent years inside medicine, caring for patients, teaching future physicians, building community health programs, and working to make healthcare more accessible and compassionate. She knew the extraordinary things medicine could do.

She also knew how difficult it could be to deliver the kind of care she believed people deserved inside a system built around short appointments, fragmented relationships, and limited time.

Stacie Larrison knew healthcare from another side.

Through years of healthcare and nonprofit leadership, advocacy, and her own experiences navigating complex health concerns, she understood what it felt like to need someone to look beyond the individual symptom. She saw how exhausting it could be to move between providers, repeat the same story, search for answers, and try to make sense of pieces of care that rarely seemed to connect.

Her work in nervous system education, somatic practice, and whole person support only deepened one belief:

People are not collections of symptoms. Their health exists within the context of their entire lives.

When Ruby and Stacie began imagining what healthcare could look like without some of the traditional constraints, they realized they were approaching the same vision from two different directions.

Ruby brought the medicine.

Stacie brought the lived experience, advocacy, systems thinking, and whole person lens.

Together, they began building the kind of care they both believed should exist.

Care with time.

Care with continuity.

Care where a physician can know the person sitting in front of her.

Care where questions do not have to wait until the next rushed appointment.

Care that respects evidence based medicine while also recognizing the roles of stress, environment, relationships, nervous system regulation, and lived experience.

And perhaps most importantly, care where patients do not have to navigate everything alone.

That became Leora Integrative Services.

Leora was not created because we believe traditional healthcare has nothing to offer. Quite the opposite. We believe deeply in medicine and in the people who practice it.

We simply believe there should be another way to experience it.

A smaller, more personal model where relationships can develop over time. Where appointments can be longer. Where care can unfold thoughtfully instead of being squeezed into a few minutes. Where patients have meaningful access to their care team between visits. And where there is room to ask not only, “What is happening?” but also, “Why might this be happening, and what can we do together?”

We created Leora because healthcare can be both clinically rigorous and deeply human.

Because patients deserve to feel known.

Because physicians deserve the time to truly practice medicine.

And because sometimes the most meaningful change begins when someone finally has enough time to listen.