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Modern Family Medicine Enhanced Care

Premium, Personalized Medicine for Discerning Individuals

At Modern Family Medicine, we deliver the kind of care most patients only wish they had. As a boutique concierge practice with limited membership, we offer an elevated experience that blends traditional, functional, and holistic medicine.

Our philosophy is simple: time, attention, and expertise should be the foundation of your healthcare. You deserve a physician who listens, investigates thoroughly, and partners with you to achieve optimal health.

We go beyond the basics to offer a tailored approach that includes:

  • Comprehensive medical evaluations
  • Chronic disease management
  • Osteopathic manipulation and medical acupuncture
  • Targeted vitamin injections and supplement guidance
  • Cupping, trigger point therapy, and more
  • Functional medicine, biohacking strategies, and wellness support


This is not just healthcare. It’s an experience designed for people who value excellence, connection, and results.

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Our Patients Are Family

Modern Family Medicine uses up-to-date technology with old-fashioned traditional family medical care in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale. “We treat our patients like family,” says Dr. Gartenberg, “We created a modern family medical office with high technological solutions in a friendly, warm and relaxing environment.” From Dr. Gartenberg’s vast experience working at Mayo Clinic and various medical facilities over the past two decades, she has gleaned experience on what patients need and want. “I educate patients and give them a choice on how to proceed with their health care treatments. I try to empower my patients to make positive decisions about their health.”

We embrace patients of all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, family dynamics, sexual preferences, etc. As a practice, we value diversity and celebrate our unique differences because underneath it all, we are all just the same. We all need a place to belong to and to fit in and not to be pre-judged by others.

What We Do

Modern Family Medicine is a unique practice which offers a retreat for the community to participate in holistic-minded classes such as, Meditation, Mind/Body skills, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Yoga, Art Therapy, Baby Music classes, Laughter Therapy, Skin care lessons, Group therapies, special workshops, and more! Group medical office visits should be covered by most insurances for various chronic diseases.

A “Breathing Bar TM” situated in the office provide visitors a breath of fresh oxygen using water-based aromatherapy.

  • Comprehensive physical exams for men and women and children
  • Comprehensive lab work offering the most up-to-date health screening tests targeted at specific age groups and individual risk factors
  • Pharmacogenomic evaluation of medications to customize medication management
  • Group medical visits where patients can learn from other patients with similar diagnoses
  • Genetic Testing
  • Virtual visits
  • Chronic disease management: Hypertension, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, Autoimmune, Thyroid nodules, Hashimotos, etc.
  • Quickie Sick SAME DAY or NEXT DAY visits
  • Rare disease management
  • Well-women exams with pap-smears and special event “Pappy HoursTM”
  • Well child exams
  • Executive physicals
  • Sports physicals
  • Employee physicals
  • Health Screening
  • Alternative Menopause Treatments
  • Family Issues/Counseling
  • Depression screening evaluation and treatment
  • Trigger point injections
  • Osteopathic Manipulation
  • Longer Appointment Times
  • Doctor Who Listens
  • Medical Acupuncture
  • Cupping
  • Well-women exams with pap-smears and special event “Pappy HoursTM”
  • IV Hydration therapy
  • ”Breathing Bar TM”
  • Vitamin injections
  • Phlebotomy Services on site with Sonoran Quest Labs
  • Customized Pharmaceutical-Grade Skin Care
  • Bio-identical Hormone Therapy
  • EKGs
  • Fee for Service Lab testing
  • And More...

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Unlike most doctor’s offices

Modern Family Medicine’s unique facility is unlike most doctor’s offices. A relaxing private meditation atrium is incorporated into the lay out of the building for patients and visitors to relax and enjoy a quiet cup of tea or practice a meditation exercise.

We also sell onsite products and holistic-minded gifts to relax, empower, and encourage health and wellness.

We hope you and your modern family will come experience quality medical care with Elissa B. Gartenberg, D.O. and her energetic caring staff at Modern Family Medicine.

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Elissa B. Gartenberg

Elissa B. Gartenberg, D.O.

Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician | Mayo Clinic Trained | Integrative and Concierge Care

Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician
Mayo Clinic Trained
Integrative and Concierge Care

Dr. Elissa B. Gartenberg is a distinguished, board-certified family medicine physician who blends the best of traditional evidence-based care with holistic and functional approaches for discerning patients seeking a higher level of personal health optimization.

Educated at some of the most prestigious institutions in the country, Dr. Gartenberg earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan and completed advanced pre-medical and graduate biology coursework at Harvard University. She received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2002 and went on to complete her internship with Henry Ford Health Systems. She then pursued her residency at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she received elite training in family medicine.

In addition to her conventional medical background, Dr. Gartenberg has formal training in medical acupuncture through the Helms Institute at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine—equipping her to offer therapeutic modalities that address the mind, body, and spirit.

With over two decades of clinical experience, Dr. Gartenberg is known for her compassionate, personalized care. She partners with patients to uncover root causes of illness, focusing on prevention, lifestyle, and long-term well-being rather than symptom suppression. Her practice is deeply grounded in both scientific rigor and holistic insight—ideal for those seeking proactive, relationship-based healthcare.

She has been a longtime advocate for wellness education, serving as the State of Arizona’s Tar Wars Coordinator to promote youth tobacco prevention and mentoring medical students in clinical training. Outside of medicine, she is an avid writer, speaker, hiker, singer, and devoted mother.

Today, Dr. Gartenberg leads a private concierge medical practice in Scottsdale, where she offers her patients dedicated attention, longer visits, and a tailored wellness strategy that evolves with their needs. Her practice is purposefully small and highly exclusive, designed for individuals who value exceptional care, direct physician access, and a commitment to lifelong vitality.

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