Meet Dr. Backs: The CURE Coach @ The CURECenter

Craig Backs, MD, is board certified in Internal Medicine, caring for adults through diagnostic skills and management of acute and chronic disease for over 40 years. These include diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and other conditions that respond to better lifestyle choices, supplements and medications. Left to progress, they can dramatically shorten or ruin an individual’s life. He is best described as an “open minded” allopath. He now focuses on arterial and metabolic disease root cause elimination, correction of deficiencies with targeted supplements and optimal medication dosing when the benefit outweighs the risk.

Dr. Backs was educated at Valparaiso University and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. His Internal Medicine residency was completed at SIU School of Medicine in Springfield, IL. For 25 years he practiced with a group of other internists and primary care doctors. He served as President of the Illinois State Medical Society among other leadership roles. After three years as Chief Medical Officer at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, IL, he opened The Center for Prevention Heart Attack and Stroke, rebranded as The CURECenter for Chronic Disease. His mission: Cure (achieve remission) of Chronic Disease by digging out its root causes.

His personal journey to reverse Chronic Disease (better described as Progressive but Reversible Arterial/Metabolic Disease) began in May of 2012. “My own personal health went through a dramatic makeover,” says Dr. Backs. “I now know better and provide a more credible example for my patients. I understand the challenges they face as they pursue a healthier lifestyle. I know how to motivate and coach success.”

Dr. Backs offers his personal and professional expertise and experience to develop and coach your Personalized CUREPlan to reverse chronic disease into remission to live a long optimally healthy life.