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Hi, I’m
Toni Tizon-Damiano
Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner
Toni Tizon-Damiano, MSN, APRN, ABAAHP, FNP-C is a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner who received her Master’s of Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Southern California. Toni is board certified with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and has been in the nursing field since 2005. Toni is also board certified with the American Academy of Anti-Aging for Medicine (A4M) with a focus on Functional Medicine.
Toni has spent a large part of her career in the emergency department. Having spent time in emergency medicine, Toni began to realize that conventional medicine, though necessary for the acute and emergent needs of patients, did not address the root cause of their concerns.
Meet the Team
Meet the compassionate experts ready to listen to your story and guide you back to balance.
Jessica (Jess) Morton, Patient Care Coordinator
Prior to becoming a mom and homeschooling her two sons,
Jessica enjoyed helping patients at Internal Medicine, Plastic Surgery
and Otolaryngology
medical practices. Jessica’s growing interests led her to become a Nationally Certified Surgical Technologist where she had the opportunity to assist intra-operatively
while also deepening her
understanding of pre and post surgical patient care. Jessica has always believed in the importance of outstanding service, personal connection and sharing JOY
whenever possible,
and looks forward to serving the patients who seek care from Roots Wellness In her free time, Jessica enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, weight training, hiking with friends and learning new things every day.
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Marissa Simon, Lead MA
Marissa is a Medical Assistant who has studied many years between Santa Monica College and completing the Clinical Medical Technician Program at CVAE to get where she is today, which is having a love for continuous learning of Functional Medicine. When she is not in office, you might find her with her family at the beach in Malibu or out hiking with her sweet puppy dog.
Mary Cait McAleer, FNP-BC
Mary Cait McAleer, MSN, APRN, PCCN, FNP-BC is a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner who received her Master’s of Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Southern California. Mary Cait is board certified with American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC), with her functional medicine education from Functional Medicine University. The majority of her nursing career has been in various specialties in the inpatient hospital setting, including oncology, neurology, cardiology, and medical surgical, to name a few. Having worked much of her career seeing complex patient problems, Mary Cait began to consider that the cause of disease could be prevented given the appropriate identification of dysfunction and treatment of the root cause, which is where her passion for functional medicine was born. Mary Cait is dedicated to preventing disease and restoring proper bodily function, allowing her patients to live their best lives.