Carolina Holistic Medicine | Functional & Alternative Medicine | Charleston, SC

April Lenker, NP

April is from rural eastern North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 for undergraduate studies in nursing. In 2009, April began her career in nursing at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina working in specialty surgery. After 2 years, she moved to UNC Rex hospital to work as a bedside nurse with cancer patients and began graduate studies at UNC Chapel Hill. In 2014, April graduated with a master’s of science in nursing and began working as a nurse practitioner with UNC Rex Cancer Center. From 2010 to 2020, April had a fulfilling career in oncology, helping people suffer less as they journey through cancer. In 2020, April transitioned from oncology and into a new area of regenerative medicine helping patients suffer less with joint pain.
In 2022, April first encountered functional medicine after her husband spent many years suffering with difficult health symptoms. They went through the traditional medical route and appointment after appointment all testing returned “normal”. Her husband did not feel normal and his symptoms worsened over time. In 2022, they sought out the expertise of a functional medicine provider. Through comprehensive testing, the underlying causes of her husband’s condition were identified and treated. By late 2022, her husband made a dramatic turnaround. To this day, he is no longer limited by his symptoms and is feeling better than he did at age 30! April could not believe the turn around.
When she realized the comprehensive diagnostic testing and science based treatments in the field of functional medicine, she was all in. In 2024 she became certified. Now, she combines her traditional medicine background with advanced functional diagnostic testing to identify root causes of dysfunctions within the body. 

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During the past decade, he has formulated original sports enhancement supplements for several companies. He also created and developed a direct access lab testing site for the general public (eStatLabs.com) and co-founded Zimetry.com.

n 2006 Dr. Saleeby authored a book on specialty medicinal herbs entitled: “Wonder Herbs: A Guide to Three Adaptogens” (Xlibris, 2006) and is a featured speaker on nutrition and adaptogen herbs in the region. He has been a contributing editor for American Fitness magazine for many years, and has contributed a chapter in the Life Extension Foundation’s 5th Edition “Disease Prevention & Treatment” tome (2013). Dr. Saleeby authored a chapter in a book on Hypothyroidism “Stop the Thyroid Madness, II” (2014). Dr. Saleeby also received his Press Credentials as a journalist/writer for AMD in early 2013.  In 2016, he was one of the founding members of the Myrtle Beach Vistage group and this organization became instrumental in expanding his newly developed micro-office medical practice model.

As a medical historian, with an interest in the American Civil War, (a member of the Society of Civil War Surgeons, and National Museum of Civil War Medicine), it gives him the opportunity to lectures on medicine & surgery during the War between the States and physician luminaries of the time. He lectures on Dr. Hunter H. McGuire (CSA), Dr. Simon Baruch (CSA), Dr. Joseph Letterman (USA), Dr. Frances P. Porcher (CSA) & Gen. William A. Hammond, MD (USA). Dr. Saleeby has a collection of medical antiques and books dating c.100 AD through the mid-1950’s.

A competitive swimmer in college, he tried his hand at Luge in Lake Placid, NY under the coaching of US National Team athletes for a couple of years; he enjoyed several years training with Team Savannah Olympic Lifting team and competed in State & National Masters Olympic Style Weightlifting & the Georgia Olympic Games in the mid-2000’s, achieving podium finishes. He had the opportunity to oar (row) a Greek Trireme (replica of a 120-foot ancient warship) on the Aegean Sea and on the Thames River in London in the early 1990’s as part of an American contingent of rowers, he also served as the crew’s assistant medical officer. He enjoys his patients and practice of integrative medicine, educating them to be self-reliant so as to enjoy many healthy disease-free years.  He is married and has two children.

 

 

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