Dr. Harolyn C. Gilles

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Get to know Family Physician Dr. Harolyn C. Gilles, MD, who serves patients in the State of Arizona.

Dr. Gilles is a board-certified family physician with special interests in age management medicine, preventative care, and pain management. She is a highly-skilled clinician who has completed advanced training in a variety of alternative and natural therapies, including bio-identical hormone replacement, aesthetic procedures, and most recently, regenerative stem cell therapies for aesthetics, hair regrowth, pain, ED, incontinence and sexual enhancement.

Dr. Gilles graduated from the Honors Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, Illinois. She then served on the faculty of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and later became the Associate Director of the Family Practice Residency Program at the University of Arizona School of Medicine. One of her passions is teaching and she considers patient education of paramount importance.

In addition to being a Fellow of the American Academy of Physicians, she is board-certified in family medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine, a non-profit, independent medical association of American physicians who practice in family medicine and its sub-specialties.

Throughout her career, she has won the “Best of Scottsdale Physicians and Surgeons Award” for 5 consecutive years, the On-Time Doctor Award in 2016, and the Patients’ Choice Award in 2016. In addition, she has been inducted as a member of Cambridge Who’s Who, and most recently, Top Doc in AZ. She has also appeared on various local and national TV and radio shows, educating the community on health-related matters. Dr. Gilles enjoys Bible study, swimming, cooking, traveling and spending quality time with her family.

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