About The Prevention Center for Heart & Brain Health

Our center is a world leader in the prevention of heart attacks, strokes, dementia, type 2 diabetes, and other devastating diseases of the heart, brain, and arteries.

About The Prevention Center for Heart & Brain Health

Our center is a world leader in the prevention of heart attacks, strokes, dementia, type 2 diabetes, and other devastating diseases of the heart, brain, and arteries.

Our Mission is to Save Hearts, Brains, and Lives

Our center specializes in an innovative, precision-medicine approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We’ve been called “disease detectives” because our comprehensive evaluation checks for a wide range of root causes that can lead to CVD if they go undiagnosed and untreated.

Peer-reviewed studies have proven that our holistic, genetically guided methodology offers a cure for CVD. Since 2001, we’ve used the leading-edge science of the BaleDoneen Method to help thousands of men and women of all ages lead active, vibrant and pleasurable lives, without fear of a heart attack, stroke or memory loss.

OUR TEAM

Our award-winning providers have the right expertise to help and support you through our life-changing disease prevention and reversal program. We treat each patient as a unique individual and strive to deliver optimal, personalized healthcare—with heart.
Amy Doneen, DNP, ARNP is the Medical Director of The Prevention Center for Heart & Brain Health and an internationally recognized expert in the prevention of heart attacks, strokes, dementia, diabetes and other chronic illnesses. She is the cofounder and a principal instructor in the BaleDoneen Method, practiced by more than 3,000 healthcare providers globally. Dr. Doneen holds professorships at Washington State University School of Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Dentistry and Texas Tech University Health Science Center. She has given more than 1,000 lectures, presentations, and keynote addresses at leading healthcare conferences around the world. Amy Doneen, DNP, ARNP is the Medical Director of The Prevention Center for Heart & Brain Health and an internationally recognized expert in the prevention of heart attacks, strokes, dementia, diabetes and other chronic illnesses. She is the cofounder and a principal instructor in the BaleDoneen Method, practiced by more than 3,000 healthcare providers globally. Dr. Doneen holds professorships at Washington State University School of Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Dentistry and Texas Tech University Health Science Center. She has given more than 1,000 lectures, presentations, and keynote addresses at leading healthcare conferences around the world. Dr. Doneen has published her research in many leading medical journals, including the American Heart Association’s Circulation, Atherosclerosis, Postgraduate Medicine, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Journal of the National Medical Association, and Journal of Clinical Lipidology. She is the coauthor of Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain: The Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory, Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes, and Avoid Chronic Illness (Little Brown, Spark 2022) and Beat the Heart Attack Gene: The Revolutionary Plan to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes (John Wiley and Sons, 2014). Read More

Amy Doneen, DNP, ARNP

Pierre Leimgruber, MD, FACC is a specialist in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) at The Prevention Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He previously worked as an interventional cardiologist, affiliated with all four hospitals in Spokane for 32 years. After performing thousands of balloon angioplasties and stent placements, he switched his focus to helping patients avoid these procedures. Dr. Leimgruber has served as Local Principal/Co-investigator of dozens of multicenter randomized clinical trials. He has presented his research at major medical conferences globally and published his findings in Circulation, American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and other peer-reviewed medical journals. He received his medical degree from University of Zurich Medical School in Switzerland and trained with Andreas Gruentzig, MD, the inventor of balloon angioplasty, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and interventional cardiology. Read More

Pierre Leimgruber, MD, FACC

Brea Seaburg, ARNP, DNP is a doctoral-trained Family Nurse Practitioner with more than a decade of experience working with men and women with chronic cardiovascular disease (CVD). Her personal health journey of being diagnosed with late-onset type 1 diabetes, as well as the journeys of those she has been fortunate enough to walk alongside, has convinced her that the conventional approach to cardiovascular medicine is completely backwards and reactionary. She was thrilled to join the team at The Prevention Center and be part of our proactive and personalized approach to CVD prevention.

A Pacific Northwest native, Dr. Seaburg received her nursing degree from Washington State University College of Nursing in Spokane, and her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Washington. Her clinical interests include metabolic health, cardiometabolic disease prevention, health behavior change, and food as medicine. She is a Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist, with additional training in functional medicine.

Brea Seaburg, DNP, ARNP

Brea Seaburg, ARNP, DNP is a doctoral-trained Family Nurse Practitioner with more than a decade of experience working with men and women with chronic cardiovascular disease (CVD). Her personal health journey of being diagnosed with late-onset type 1 diabetes, as well as the journeys of those she has been fortunate enough to walk alongside, has convinced her that the conventional approach to cardiovascular medicine is completely backwards and reactionary. She was thrilled to join the team at The Prevention Center and be part of our proactive and personalized approach to CVD prevention.

A Pacific Northwest native, Dr. Seaburg received her nursing degree from Washington State University College of Nursing in Spokane, and her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Washington. Her clinical interests include metabolic health, cardiometabolic disease prevention, health behavior change, and food as medicine. She is a Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist, with additional training in functional medicine.

Monika Jacobson, RDN

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