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Alena Guggenheim, N.D.

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  • Naturopath
  • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine

Specialty

  • Anesthesiology

Clinical focus

  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Locations and contact

I see patients at
Tall building with the ariel tram to its left
Center for Health & Healing, Building 1
503-494-8311
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About me

Dr. Guggenheim specializes in the care of children and adults with chronic pain and joint hypermobility disorders. She enjoys working with patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and associated complex symptoms. She likes to help patients navigate health care options and empowering them to make informed decisions.

When not seeing patients Dr. Guggenheim enjoys spending time in nature with her family and riding horses.

Languages spoken

  • English

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.A., 2001, Reed College
    • N.D., 2007, National College of Natural Medicine

  • Residency

    • Naturopathic Primary Care, National University of Natural Medicine, 2009

Memberships and associations:

  • Academy of Integrative Pain Management
  • Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians
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Ratings and reviews

Overall: 4.9 out of 5 (92 Ratings, 58 Reviews)

The patient ratings score is an average of all responses to the question "How likely would you be to recommend this provider to your family and friends (on a scale of 0 to 10)" on our nationally-recognized Press Ganey patient surveys.

  1. Dr. Guggenheim's expertise for patients with EDS is unsurpassed in this area of the country. She is knowledgeable, very sincere and personable, and really wants to help her patients to feel better. She is an excellent listener and also great at communication and clear explanations.

  2. She is my favorite doctor ever. She listens, she trusts, she has good ideas, she revisits things that aren't working, she is brilliant and kind and very skilled.

  3. Excellent listener, very thorough!

  4. Dr G is the best!

  5. Dr. Guggenheim is one of the best physicians I've ever had. Incredible knowledge base of my conditions.

  6. The most knowledgeable doctor at OHSU in grouped connective disorders. Alena Guggenheim is amazingly helpful and truly cares for her patients. She helps with many rare sub groups of connected disorders and specialized care.

  7. Dr Guggenheim is one of the 3 best doctors I have ever worked with and I see a lot of providers.

  8. Dr. Guggenheim is the most attentive, knowledgeable and thorough doctor I've ever known. She is absolutely incredible and I feel incredibly grateful to be in her care.

  9. I rave about Alena Guggenheim to my friends. She's brilliant and thinks outside the box. She has insights no other provider has. She listens deeply and takes my concerns seriously. She treats the whole human. Her solutions are noninvasive and work.

  10. Very compassionate, very skillful clinician

  11. Dr Guggenheim is very knowledgeable about my health conditions and is the best doctor I've ever seen. I feel understood and I trust her opinion and recommendations. I wish there were more doctors with her expertise to help chronic illness patients.

  12. Dr G is the best provider! She's so knowledgeable and caring. Every time I touch base with her it resolves a lot of pending issues and weird symptoms.

  13. She is the only good experience I've ever had with your hospital, personally.

  14. Dr. Guggenheim is simply amazing and so great. Thank you!!

  15. Dr. Guggenheim is the very best doctor that I have ever seen. It is such a blessing to have an incredibly intelligent EDS specialist on my team. I know many with my conditions are not as lucky. I only wish she had much better and more competent support staff and the clinic was possible to access. I'm unsure how its acceptable to have a medical clinic that is literally impossible to access.

  16. Dr. Guggenheim is amazing. Thoughtful, helpful, caring, extremely knowledgeable.

  17. Dr. Guggenheim is Wonderful. Please get more practitioners that can do what she does. I have recommended several people to her that have not received help for their situations, but the last I heard she was not accepting new patients. Please do everything you can to keep them.

  18. She is through and kind and is amazing at getting to the bottom of a problem

  19. Dr Guggenheim has extremely specific expertise required to treat my conditions and she will have referrals for specialist that she already knows take OHP (not the case with many doctors) Her compassion and honesty always helps me feel less about current symptoms.

  20. Extremely knowledgeable about a variety of uncommon conditions. Able to help us focus on the important and relax about others. Has helped significantly improve the health of both of my children where other practitioners had been less successful.

  21. Dr Guggenheim is amazing! The most relatable and emotionally attuned doctor I've ever had. She gets down to business and gets things accomplished.

  22. A truly incredible provider, One of a kind unfortunately, if only we could clone her!

  23. She was patient and helped me with several issues. She always makes me laugh and is efficient at getting things done quickly.

  24. Dr. Guggenheim is an exceptional Doctor. Her knowledge, professionalism, communication & commitment to help patients far exceeds other medical practitioners. I am very fortunate to have her on my team.

  25. I shudder to imagine what state I would be in without Dr G's care over the years. After years debilitated and reliant on tons of meds to survive, I am regaining so much energy and ability and able to taper down some of my medication doses. I can actually have friends, pursue my interests and learn new skills. I wish everyone could have a Dr this excellent.

  26. Dr Guggenheim is a gem - so grateful for almost a decade now of the most exceptional care and kindness from this profoundly skilled and knowledgeable provider!

  27. She is my best medical provider by far. She understands my complex medical conditions, listens, is extremely knowledgeable, is personable, always up to date on current research, and always has suggestions or solutions for my medical needs. She's also the only provider I have who starts her appointments with a review of our last appointment and follows up on decisions we made then to check on my progress and see what difficulties I may have had following our plan.

  28. Dr. Guggenheim is amazing! She is very supportive and has gone out of her way to help me. She has helped me to get to the bottom of my epigastric pain; she is helping with pain management as I wait for surgery; and she is addressing the things I can do now (e.g., nutrition) that will help with recovery post surgery.

  29. I felt like I was heard and got good care.

  30. I felt heard and cared for.