Eboni N. Cornish, MD

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Get to know Family Physician Dr. Eboni N. Cornish, who serves patients in Washington, D.C.

A trusted physician, Dr. Cornish provides family medicine services to patients in the Washington, DC Metro Area. At Amen Clinics, she specializes in the treatment of Lyme Disease, environmental toxicity, methylation disorders, and Morgellons Disease among other chronic conditions. Her approach to the treatment of chronic disease is to find the root cause of a person’s health problems by performing a comprehensive evaluation of the body’s various biological systems and takes an approach based on integrative strategies of healing.

The team at Amen Clinics specialize in an innovative brain-body approach to diagnosis and treatment planning for a wide array of emotional, behavioral, learning, cognitive, and weight issues for children, teenagers, and adults.

With a broad educational background, Dr. Cornish completed her undergraduate education with honors at Brown University, and graduated with her medical degree from the Brown University Medical School. She then went on to complete her residency in family medicine at Georgetown University. 

In 2003, as a Howard Hughes Medical Fellow, she conducted translational research at the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH. She was an apprentice in the laboratory of Francis Collins, M.D Ph.D., the current Director of NIH and leader of the Human Genome Project. Under his leadership, she analyzed genetic associations of chronic illnesses.

Professionally, Dr. Cornish currently serves as a board member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society Educational Foundation. She is a proud member of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), and the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM).

Family medicine is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages. The specialist is called a family physician or family doctor. A family physician is often the first person a patient sees when seeking healthcare services. They examine and treat patients with a wide range of conditions and refer those with serious ailments to a specialist or appropriate facility.

An authority in her field, Dr. Cornish was nominated and awarded Northern Virginia Top Doctor for family practice in 2021.

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