Meet Our Team
Kate Godly
Clinical Director & President
Functional Medicine Physician Assistant
Kate Godly holds a bachelor’s in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech (2005), an M.S. in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine from UWS (2021), and a Certificate in Physician Assistant Studies from St. John’s University in New York. She has been a PA since 2009.
She began her career in primary care, addiction medicine and infectious disease at an outpatient facility in New York. She later moved to rural North Carolina where she became an HIV specialist and served as an ID consultant for two hospitals.
In an effort to merge her interest in nutrition, what she had learned as a parent, and her own journey with insulin resistance and autoimmune disease, she then became a health coach, and a lactation consultant (IBCLC) traveling the Raleigh-Durham area on home visits. In 2016, Kate became a yoga teacher and dove deeper into the Ayurverdic perspective of health. Similar to Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda sees the patient’s mind, body and spirit as equal parts of one whole– these three parts all influence one another and healing the mind and the spirit is as essential to health as healing the physical body.
After another two years working in fast paced family medicine clinics, Kate left the traditional model to open The Functional Medicine Center in 2017, then called Restoring Balance Family Practice. The name was changed in 2018 to better reflect the way Kate practices medicine. Her mentor is Dr. JP Saleeby of Carolina Holistic Medicine. He is an ILADS trained MD and an AARM fellow.
Kate’s foundation is in gut health, food sensitivities, adrenal fatigue, autoimmune disease, and chronic infections, as well as hormone balancing and detox.
Kate also teaches infectious disease at Campbell PA school in Lillington and is on the mentor board of the Priority Health Academy. She is a member of the North Carolina Integrative Medical Society and the American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.
Kate is also a yoga and meditation instructor and in her free time enjoys traveling, taking her SUP out on the lake, and exploring her home town of Durham with her husband, also a PA, and their two young children.
Josh Corwin
Managing Partner & Founder
Integrative Physician Assistant
Josh earned his bachelor’s degree from The George Washington University, his master’s degree from New York Medical College, and his Physician Assistant Certificate from St. John’s University. Josh is proud to have served as President of the Neils Schmidt Student Society during his physician assistant training and was inducted into Pi Alpha, the national honor society for physician assistants.
He is certified as a Physician Assistant by the National Certifying Commission of Physician Assistants and is licensed by the North Carolina Medical Board.
Before becoming a physician assistant in 2008 and beginning his PA career in New Jersey in Orthopaedic Surgery, Josh was a paramedic in both New York and New Jersey for eleven years and instructed EMT, paramedic, and nursing students. Josh has worked in Orthopaedic Surgery in the Triangle since relocating in 2011 and is thrilled to bring his skill set to The Functional Medicine Center. He enthusiastically combines his years of experience in the unpredictable field of emergency medicine with his experience in orthopedic surgery in the treatment of patients as he provides integrative Physician Assistant services at The Functional Medicine Center. Josh offers nutritional IVs, IV Ozone, joint injections with PRP and Ozone, and hair restoration.
Wanda Ichiriu
Integrative Physician Assistant
Wanda Ichiriu PA-C is a board-certified physician assistant with over 26 years experience in internal medicine/primary care, urgent care/emergency department, nephrology and functional medicine/integrative medicine. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Therapy at California State University, Long Beach and earned her postgraduate certificate from the Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program. Wanda’s current passion is practicing Functional Medicine, whereby she focuses on the root cause of the patients’ medical conditions, instead of just treating the symptoms. She has successfully completed the entire coursework for the Institute for Functional Medicine.
Patients usually find Wanda to be warm, compassionate, friendly, thorough and detail oriented. She is a good listener and treats her patients holistically to include looking at mental, spiritual and physical issues to collaboratively help her patients achieve optimal health and wellness. Due to her own health journey where she did not find relief or answers from conventional medicine and treatment, Wanda was able to find answers to many of her medical problems. She was able to overcome many of her health issues using a holistic, functional approach, which baffled her traditional/allopathic specialists and practitioners. Wanda brings this empathetic passion to help her patients achieve optimal health and wellness. One of her mottos is “We can all be better versions of ourselves, no matter what age.”
Her interests and hobbies include healthy international cooking and baking, hiking and exploring, and growing vegetables, flowers, herbs, and exotic fruit trees to include figs, mangoes, and dragonfruit.
Lauren Light
Billing Manager & Onboarding Specialist
Behind every brilliant medical mind, there is an organizational mind keeping the gears moving.
Lauren began working for the practice in late 2019. She handles administrative tasks for both patients and providers. Lauren believes wholeheartedly in our functional medicine approach and is always happy to assist and support when needed.
Brandy Webb
Executive Assistant & Schedule Coordinator
Brandy is often the first face you see when walking in the door and the first voice you hear when you call on the phone. She adeptly keeps the day running smoothly and is the point person for all appointment scheduling.
Lacey Witte
Medical Assistant
Lacey brings years of experience to TFMC. She performs blood draws, EKGs, Continuous Glucose Monitor Insertion & Removal on the clinical side of her day. Behind the scenes, she helps with prior authorizations, prescription refills, referrals and tons more to keep the patient experience as smooth as possible.
Kelly Price
Wellness Coach
Kelly Price received her BA in Psychology from North Carolina University in 2010. Since 2008 she’s provided direct care to a variety of populations, from coaching children and adults with a primary diagnosis of Intellectual/Developmental Disability to foster greater independence and self-sufficiency, to guiding young adults struggling with addiction in a wilderness-based treatment approach rooted in mindfulness.
In 2015, Kelly transitioned into social/emotional research, assisting on programs focusing on enrichment for students on the Autism spectrum, relapse prevention, and general user accessibility for online platforms.
Shortly after the birth of her daughter, in 2017, she began focusing on life at home and shifted into healing both physically and mentally, using food, lifestyle and movement as medicine. While on her wellness journey, Kelly became certified as a personal trainer in early 2019 and started working with others on greater wellness and fulfillment through better health. Her passion for fostering greater contentment and fulfillment in life through health is what brought her here to be a Wellness Coach at The Functional Medicine Center. Kelly is excited to bring both her work and personal experience together to support you on your wellness path.
Kelly offers a complementary visit before you officially become a patient with us. “The Readiness visit” is essentially the final step before your Intake visit. During this visit Kelly talks you through the foundation of our practice (our Pillars: Collaboration, Education, & Empowerment and The Foundations of Healing: Food, Rest Hygiene, Stress management, Movement, & Minimize Toxins), shares some general reminders, and asks a few questions about what’s most important to you, including your biggest goals and obstacles. This visit gives her a good idea of how we can best support you.
Yusuf M. (JP) Saleeby, M.D.
Consulting Medical Director
After a two-decade career in Emergency Medicine in NC, SC and GA, Dr. Saleeby took a career change towards Functional & Integrative Medicine and has been practicing this new paradigm of medicine since 1999.
Dr. Saleeby is a member of the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine (AARM). He is a member of ILADS an organization that treats Lyme disease and associated tick-borne chronic illness. He has also been a past member of A4M, ACAM and the American Telehealth Association. His focus is hormone balance, Tick Borne pathogen illness, Hypothyroidism/Hashimoto’s, Dysbiosis (SIBO), Leaky Gut (gastric permeability) and Autoimmune disorders. In 2018 he founded the Priority Health Academy, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, dedicated to provider education and training to advanced healthcare providers in Functional Medicine.
He is married with 2 children and enjoys travel, gastronomic opportunities, history, philosophy, astrophysics, fine art and European sports cars.