Dr. Kungys completed her medical education in Germany and after one year of medical training in primary care immigrated to the United States. She completed a surgical internship, anesthesia residency and cardiovascular (CV) anesthesia fellowship at the University of California, Davis in Sacramento. After teaching as faculty for two years she entered private practice where she enjoyed initiating and maintaining educational meetings where peers could learn from and with each other, exchanging experiences and pearls and incorporating new care methods into practice. Likewise, she enjoyed the rotating medical students from Tuoro and Western University DO programs and the Sutter family practice residency program. In addition to CV and general anesthesia, Dr. Kungys enjoyed regional anesthesia and participated in founding the hospital pain service, serving surgical patients through interventional pain relief (nerve blocks), compassionate listening and non-opioid pain relief education. Grounded in whole person care by upbringing, she got interested in expanding anesthesia and surgical care from home to home in the enhanced recovery after surgery program (ERAS) that optimizes the healing and restorative efforts of surgery. As ERAS director for Sutter Hospital in Sacramento, she had the great privilege to work for three years with surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses, but also all other specialty physicians and care providers who relate to a patient’s surgical journey. The amazing team of professionals she was working with built the ERAS program from it’s beginning of a concept in a binder out to 8 service lines, actively employing all strategies of care enhancement. This was the inspiration to contemplate healthcare in general and took Dr. Kungys into a new direction, while re-connecting her back to her roots. She studied integrative medicine under Andrew Weil and refreshed much of medical education at an enhanced speed and with beautiful and powerful new viewpoints. Dr. Kungys has joined Dr. Mathewson in her practice and is maintaining her anesthesia work as well.