About

Dr. Sylvest
Both a holistic physician and pathologist, Dr. Sylvest serves as Medical Director of Laboratory Corporation of America's regional laboratory in Richmond, Virginia. Formerly on the Board of Directors of the American Holistic Medical Association, he founded and was the director of the Institute of Higher Healing's holistic center in Richmond.

Dr. Sylvest continues seeing a limited number of patients as a holistic medical consultant. His lectures and workshops have had a tremendous healing impact on many in this country and abroad. His book, The Formula, has been endorsed by outstanding pioneers in the realm of holistic medicine such as Deepak Chopra, M.D., Bernie Siegel, M.D., Norman Shealy, M.D., Gladys McGarey, M.D as well as other authors and leaders in the healing field.

Dr. Sylvest was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 4, 1939. Shortly after his birth his father joined the Louisiana Methodist Conference and Dr. Sylvest grew up as a preacher's kid in small towns across Louisiana. He finished his undergraduate studies at Louisiana State University acquiring both scholastic and civic recognition and graduated first in his class from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. His post-doctoral experience includes a clinical internship at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, a tour of duty in the U.S. Public Health Service during the Vietnam conflict, a successful emergency practice in a busy Washington, D.C. suburban hospital, a pathology residency at the University of Michigan and ultimately a move to Richmond, Virginia in 1974 where he began his pathology practice.

Over the years Dr. Sylvest drifted away from his traditional spiritual roots and assumed the more traditional scientific view of reality shared by many of his professors and colleagues. Stimulated by the desperation of his own illness, depression and experience of broken relationships he returned to those roots with a new level of surrender and openness which led to a deeper understanding of spirituality and science and their mutually inclusive relationship. His own healing and the healing work he is now doing are the fruits of this understanding, which he shares in The Formula.

Dr. Sylvest is Associate Medical Director with Bostwick Laboratories in Richmond, Virginia.  Click HERE to visit Dr. Sylvest's page at Bostwick Laboratories.