Designing the Future of Healthcare

Dr. Lundquist has a special interest in Integrative and Holistic medicine. He founded and still sees patients at the Temecula Center for Integrative Medicine. He is a member of the American Holistic Medical Association as well as the Institute of Functional Medicine. He specializes in endocrine disorders such as thyroid and adrenal dysfunction as well as diabetes and metabolic syndrome. He also has extensive experience treating chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, migraines and headache syndromes, as well as cardiovascular disorders, and chronic pain. He is excited to be participating with Metagenics on the Personalized Lifestyle Medical Center where several research studies will be done on improving outcomes with the aforementioned conditions.

He attended Occidental College in LA where he graduated with a B.A. in Kinesiology and Biology. He received his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine and completed his family medicine residency at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton where he served as chief resident. Dr. Lundquist spent 8 years on active duty with the Navy serving in Iraq as a battalion surgeon with the Marine Corps as well as serving for 3 years at a Naval Hospital in Naples, Italy.

Dr. Lundquist is Board Certified in Family Medicine with ABFM and he is sub-specialized with the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABoIM). He also has received a certification from the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine (ABIHM) and the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFMCP).

He is married with three children and loves inspiring his patients to take control of their health and combat “dis-ease”. He enjoys lecturing to his peers about integrative and functional medicine approaches to chronic diseases.

Dr. David Shaffer grew up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the youngest son and with three older sisters.

As a graduate from the University of Pittsburgh, Oakland campus in 1992, he received his bachelor’s degree in history. Prior to attending main campus, he initially enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, where he played NCAA Division II basketball for two seasons. Following graduation, he worked various jobs and eventually he found himself working as a medical supply sales representative. This job stimulated a latent fascination with the workings of the human body and motivated Dr. Shaffer to enter graduate school. Dr. Shaffer graduated in 1999 from Palmer College of Chiropractic West where he spent the majority of his four years there on the Dean’s List. Always trying to improve his clinical skills, he took part in a new program that integrated doctors of chiropractic into a hospital system. The post-graduate course work at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia include performing grand rounds with internists and fine-tuned primary care, orthopedic, and neurologic skills above and beyond the traditional chiropractic education. He was one of the first chiropractors to obtain the certification of Advanced Practice of Chiropractic Medicine (APCM-c). Currently, Dr. Shaffer is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (CCSP) and has passed his board exams to move forward to receiving his Diplomate American Chiropractic Board of Sports (DACBSP). In the past, Dr. Shaffer has held certifications of Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) for the State of California, Industrial Disability Examiner, and Strength and Conditioning Specialist (C.S.C.S.).

During his career, Dr. Shaffer has started up and operated three clinics in the South Bay of Los Angeles and in the Washington, DC regions. He was the first chiropractor to be hired by Little Company of Mary Hospital system to work in multi-disciplinary outpatient clinic. For the six years prior to joining PLMC, Dr. Shaffer had been asked to join a large Los Angeles based orthopedic clinic, as part of their sports medicine/rehabilitation clinic. Dr. Shaffer has worked at numerous athletic events throughout the US and internationally. Most recently he was chosen to work the USA National Championships of Track and Field that was held at Sacramento State in Sacramento, CA. Eventually, he hopes to support Team USA as a chiropractic staff member of a future Olympic event. Throughout his career, Dr. Shaffer has had a treatment focus of form and function. By pairing traditional manual therapy and soft tissue protocols with innovative rehabilitative techniques, he has developed an extremely effective and efficient treatment technique. Targeting movement patterns and biomechanics to develop an individual treatment plan for his patients, Dr. Shaffer is never afraid to take on the tough case. Though his connections with the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs he is constantly trying to stay up to date and on the cutting edge of treatment and performance enhancement. Pain, though not the only focus for our approach, is a major contributor to people’s daily stress levels. According to the Cleveland Clinic, stress occurs when life events surpass your abilities to cope. It causes your body to produce greater levels of the stress hormone cortisol. In short spurts, cortisol can boost your immunity by limiting inflammation. But over time, your body can get used to having too much cortisol in your blood. This long term can open the door for more inflammation. In addition, stress decreases the body’s lymphocytes – the white blood cells that help fight off infection. The lower your lymphocyte level, the more at risk you are for viruses, including the common cold and cold sores. High stress levels also can cause depression and anxiety, again leading to higher levels of inflammation. In the long-term, sustained, high levels of inflammation point to an overworked, over-tired immune system that can’t properly protect you. Clinical immunologist Leonard Calabrese, DO, offers insights on how stress impacts your immunity and what you can do to minimize the effect. “Eliminating or modifying these factors in one’s life is vital to protect and augment the immune response,” he says. “It’s necessary to buffer the inevitability of the aging process.”

At PLMC, Dr. Shaffer’s goal of optimizing form and function and eliminating pain, can put you on the path to better health. With these innovative protocols we are able to promote improved musculoskeletal performance, reduce pain, and therefore dramatically influence one of the major pillars of overall wellness. In his personal life, Dr. Dave enjoys fishing and being in the forest, hiking, fitness, sports, and spending time with and watching his children thrive.