About Dr. Bruce Dooley MS, MD

With the opening of Bayridge Integrative Medical Centre in 2021, Dr. Bruce Dooley brought his unique knowledge and expertise to Golden Bay as well as the rest of New Zealand.

But Bruce is no newcomer, having lived in the Bay since 2001, along with his wife Inna, who is the clinic office manager. Bruce is a fully registered doctor in New Zealand and is passionate about using integrative therapies to help people with health problems, and assisting them to restore balance. Rather than wait for disease symptoms to develop however, he strongly believes prevention is best wherever possible. He particularly advocates appropriate doses of vitamins D and C as being “critically important”, and recommends a wide range of evidence-based, safe health products and alternative therapies.

Dr. Dooley’s qualifications and experience are as follows: After graduating in Pre-Med and Theology from St Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, he earned a Master’s degree in Immunology and Virology from Villanova University, and in 1980, he received his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. At the age of 28, after working as an emergency physician, Bruce built a free-standing 24/7 emergency medical Centre in the ski resort of Park City, Utah. This was followed a year later by a second near Miami, Florida. Many days he would attend to between 40-60 patients.

He tells the story of a new patient, John Clark, who in 1996 walked into his Florida clinic, and excitedly told him about an intravenous treatment called Chelation Therapy that had saved his life from severe cardiovascular disease. He suggested Bruce read a book by Harvard-trained physician and Navy pilot, Dr. Elmer Cranton titled Bypassing Bypass. Thinking it was likely just “quackery”, Dr. Dooley was instead inspired after reading Dr. Cranton’s accounts of seemingly miraculous recoveries following chelation and he began offering them in his Florida practice. Bruce admits “It’s a perfect example of how, if a doctor really listens to a patient, he or she might find their lives and practice altered, and John did that for me!”

Amazed at the results he saw, Bruce sold both emergency clinics, attended intensive “holistic” training courses, and opened up two bi-coastal alternative medical therapy centres in Naples and Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1998 and another in Palm Beach in 2013. In addition to his expertise in Integrative Medicine, the clinics offered intravenous high-dose Vitamin C and chelation therapies. Bruce has supervised thousands of these safe therapies and personally uses them on himself. “I know several hundred doctors who give EDTA chelation and Intravenous therapies to their patients. Knowing the benefits and the safety, they all do these on themselves as well. Why wouldn’t we?”, he says.

Bruce explains the importance of having the time to listen to his patients: “I always go back to birth, or even pre-birth for that matter, and work my way forward in their life history.” Patients are sent a consultation summary which includes integrative health recommendations. He also recommends other integrative health practitioners as appropriate, but he’s very clear about his own role. “I keep up with the current literature to provide people with the best information for the safest and most effective way back to better health. That’s what my job is, I believe.”