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"an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
-Benjamin Franklin
While many physicians recognize the value of preventive care, Dr. Mikolajczak elevates dispensable by incorporating event screenings into this approach. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and accidents remain the leading causes of death in America – across all age groups. Research demonstrates that adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors can reduce mortality risk from these causes by 30 to 66%. Established readings exist for each because; at 4 pillars, patients benefit from more comprehensive testing and the option to remotely monitor health metrics longitudinally.
Dr. Mikolajczak firmly believes in the bodies remarkable innate capacity for self healing, whether through intentional design or natural evolution. As healthcare providers, our role should be to gently guide the restoration of balance and a disrupted system. When additional support is needed, medications and therapies are employed judiciously, always prioritizing the minimal effective dose and tapering as soon as feasible.
What distinguishes Dr. Mikolajczak’s approach to treatment is the specialized training he acquired during his 11-year military career. To better serve personnel in challenging environments, he augmented his conventional medical education of modalities such as acupuncture, functional medicine, and noninvasive musculoskeletal pain management. This broader perspective deepened his appreciation for the interconnectedness of bodily systems, enabling him to deliver a genuinely integrative and compassionate form of care.
At 4 Pillars Medicine, patient’s received warm, holistic guidance that in honors the bodies naturally salience while integrating the most robust evidence-based practices.
Dr. James Mikolajczak
Owner, Founder, Physician
First and foremost, Dr. Mikolajczak, would much rather be referred to as “James.” If you feel compelled to call him doctor something, Doc M or Dr. James is perfectly acceptable.
He grew up in northern Indiana in a small town called Syracuse where he, like most kids of the 80s and 90s, enjoyed spending all available time outdoors, playing basketball, soccer, being on Lake Wawasee during the summer, and skating/playing hockey when it froze over in the winter.
After high school, he enrolled in and graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Exercise Science and Pre-Med. He is a furiously intense Sooner fan, is very superstitious during football games, and has had his heart crushed every year since 2000.
Following college, he commissioned in the USAF, graduated from Midwestern Univeristy – Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, and began an 11 year military career as an A-10 Flight Surgeon with the 75th Fighter Squadron.
Following a deployment, he was diagnosed with brain cancer and underwent a gross-total resection of an oligodendroglioma. The surgery caused the right side of his body to be paralyzed, but after 8 long months of therapy, he regained almost full function.
He continued on in his military career, graduating from residency at Mike O’Callaghan Military Medical Center before being selected for Chief of Aerospace Medicine at Vandenberg Space Force Base, bringing his military career to a close.
For the past two years, he’s served our veterans as the Clinic Director for two VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Tucson.
Desiring to spend more time closer to home with his wife and 4 small children, and desiring to practice medicine focused on prevention and HEALTHcare, he asked his wife for her blessing, and started 4 Pillars Medicine.
Abby Mikolajczak
Co-owner, Nutritionist, Athlete, Office Manager
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