
About Dr. Madhava
_edited.png)
Dr. Valsa Madhava, MD, MPH, MS, IFMCP is a physician whose work centers on helping people with complex nervous system destabilization regain safety, regulation, and function. She is a board-certified internist and addiction medicine specialist with advanced training in functional medicine. Her work focuses on complex nervous system destabilization, autonomic dysregulation, stress-biology physiology, and careful, stabilization-focused medical care.
She earned her medical degree from Albany Medical College, completed an internal medicine residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and holds advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins University (MPH) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (MS in Clinical Research Methods). She is certified in functional medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine.
Educational Outreach
Dr. Madhava presents the Five-Axis Framework to the Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Community (BWC), reframing withdrawal as a nervous-system and stress-biology process rather than a dose-reduction model.