Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Board-Certified Family Physician
Award-winning Science Communicator
Global Medicine Educator
Founding Medical Director Team-5

Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Board-Certified Family Physician
Award-winning Science Communicator
Global Medicine Educator
Founding Medical Director Team-5

Dr. Kenna's Book

The Gospel of Women's Health

Dr. Kenna’s passion is helping women create health and well-being. Her book, The Gospel of Women’s Health: Awakening Athena Again encourages and educates women in how to take control of their health. Grounded in science including her original clinical research, and clothed in compassion for women’s emotional, spiritual, and physical challenges, she illuminates the path for navigating the terrain of life in all ages and stages of the feminine life cycle. Dr. Kenna believes that women deserve to know the truth about how best to address their health including stress, disease and disability which are expertly addressed in over 60 case studies. Women may find peace and freedom using the accessible and affordable principals and practices shared by Dr. Kenna. Read Dr. Kenna's Full Biography

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The Power of Touch in Creating Health

Dr. Kenna presents her compelling research investigating touch therapy’s effects on health domains, gene expression, immune, cardiovascular, and hormonal factors. The profound results astounded the investigators and participants alike!

Women’s Heart Health

Doctor Kenna illuminates the differences in heart disease for women through case studies and her research along with practical guidance for creating a healthy heart.

When Dreams Speak

Dr. Kenna explores the science of dreams, her clinical research and dreams remarkable role in creating health and well-being. Illuminating patient case histories, intriguing tools and dynamic techniques will help you harness the power of your dreams to enhance your life!

Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Just Me?

Dr. Kenna's novel model of the feminine life cycle incorporating body, mind, and spirit, along with her landmark research in bio-identical hormones.

Patient case studies of midlife women and beyond will enhance your understanding of the vital role of hormonal balance and lifestyle factors in creating health.

Praise for the Work of Dr. Kenna Stephenson

“In The Gospel of Women’s Health: Awakening Athena Again, Dr. Kenna Stephenson brings years of experience and practical advice to this essential reframing of women’s health. Her book is a much-needed guide for women seeking to take charge of their medical journey – providing tools to navigate a system often biased against women’s complaints. What I found most valuable is her specific, up-to-the-minute information on alternative, scientifically proven treatments and lifestyle hacks that aim to help women stay healthy and vibrant at every stage of life.”

—Nicole Lucas Haimes

Documentary Filmmaker, Hollywood

“Dr. Kenna is a healer as this book reveals. Her approach to finding out what’s really going on inside her patients based on an understanding of who they are and how they live expands the medical art of treating symptoms into the universal art of healing souls. I personally experienced her practice – it was magical. Dr. Kenna’s revolutionary rediscovery of ancient wisdom is just what our world needs. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to live their best life. I can’t wait until she publishes The Gospel of Men’s Health!”

—Colonel Michael C. Ryan

former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe, The Pentagon

“Kenna is such a charming, dynamic, empowering presence – indeed she is an Athena, herself. I love the encouragement to skip around in the book so each subsection of women can quickly find her own relevancy in the book. As is so often said now in the media, social scientists, politics: no group is a monolith. This feature of Kenna’s invitation to read her book that way is an excellent application of what we now know people feel when put into a monolithic category, in my view.”

—Pamela Bateman,

Founder, The Seventh Woman Producer, Hormone Matters Washington, DC/Austin, TX8

“I met Kenna when we were both lecturing on a cruise ship. I attended all her lectures and recognised her commitment to serve and help others. I have listened to audio excerpts from Kenna’s new book, The Gospel of Women’s Health: Awakening Athena Again. I found the book interesting, and it provides good advice for a happier, more fulfilled life.

It is essential reading for every woman who wants to achieve ultimate happiness and service to others.”

—Stuart Tipple, Soliciter in Greater Sydney, Australia author of The Dingo Took Over My Life: A Lawyer’s Journey and #1 True Crime Podcast in Australia, “A Perfect Storm”

“I have known Dr. Stephenson for more than fifteen years and she is one of the finest clinician researchers I know. She is a dedicated seeker after the truth and brings her unique perspectives and experience to bear once again in her book, The Gospel of Women’s Health: Awakening Athena Again. It’s a must-read for anyone wanting a book on hormone replacement authored by a smart, caring, sincere expert.”

—George Gillson, MD, PhD

Rocky Mountain Functional Medicine Consulting Inc., Canada

“In this modern world, women are being overmedicated in the pursuit of health and wellbeing. Kenna’s model of care challenges the status quo and offers an enlightening journey through the power of a healthy lifestyle and hormone therapy. Backed by science and practice, The Gospel of Women’s Health shows women of all ages and stages of life how to take control of their physical, emotional, and spiritual health – a Must Read!”

—Maria Carvalho, PharmD, MRPharmS, PhD, Luxembourg

Compounding advocate, wife, mother

Author of Compounding Practices in Europe

“Dr. Kenna Stephenson’s book brings new insights from traditional and alternative medicine to help women of every age thrive. The insights from The Gospel of Women’s Health cannot be found anywhere else and are easily applied to improve health and happiness.”

—Paul J. Zak, PhD. Professor,

author of Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and Source of Happiness

“Dr. Stephenson’s new book is a beautifully written work and is for anyone who truly cares about achieving good health and healing and taking ownership of their lives. Powerful and insightful, well documented and well written. I urge everyone to read it and watch their lives and happiness increase manifold.”

—Max Stanley Chartrand, Ph. D, CSP (Behavioral Medicine)

“From my perspective as a patient and as a biomedical researcher, I think that Dr. Stephenson is very much on the right track, and I would hope that her approach to women’s health can contribute successfully to the health and well-being of women and men of all ages.”

—Donald Stein, PhD.

Asa G. Candler Professor and Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) Emory University, author of Brain Repair

“There’s something about listening to Dr. Kenna Stephenson reading from her new book, The Gospel of Womens’ Health that stirs up empowering thoughts, the confidence to challenge doctors who aren’t listening to us and the determination to insist that they do!

Supported by science, case studies and her own original, groundbreaking research, we are gifted with a new understanding of the feminine lifecycle vs. allowing ourselves to be defined solely by our reproductive status. Dr. Stephenson calls upon us to refuse to be preyed upon by old school doctors who make diseases out of normal changes in a woman’s life and overprescribe harmful synthetic hormones. And she encourages us to trust in our own powers of intuition and self-healing to take back control of our health. This is not your ordinary listening experience, but rather a voice of conviction that aims to ignite women’s very own Athena wisdom and inner guidance towards finding hormonal health and balance at every age and stage of our lives.”

—Candace Burch, M.A.

YourHormoneBalance.com

“Dr. Stephenson’s opening statement that the modern medical establishment preys on women, just grabbed me immediately to hear more of what she had to say. And more she did. Dr. Stephenson is an inspiration for all woman of any age, and thereby all of us men too! She both delights us with historical perspectives, clinical data, inspirations and anecdotes. The Chapter on “The Power of Touch” really affirmed many opinions I had about touch, and her clinical research of Biotouch as an option for reinstating the power of touch into our healthcare system is uplifting and brings me hope. Each chapter and every word will inspire. I look forward to women reclaiming their power through their own intuition of knowing what is right for them. Which, of course, will be passed on to men in our world. Kenna gives us all kinds of options, and all based on clinical research. She confirms over and over the desire to choose the path for fulfillment in achieving a better level of health for yourself and your loved ones. She truly awakens the healing wisdom that resides within ourselves and illuminates the path to transforming our world.”

—Paul Bucky

Executive Director/Founder International Foundation of Bio-Magnetics Bio-Touch Healing – JustTouch.com

“Dr Kenna Stephenson’s The Gospel of Women’s Health: Awakening Athena Again is essential reading for all health professionals involved in women’s health. Too often the provision of healthcare is paternalistic and at times patronizing, Dr Stephenson’s patient centric approach shifts the power to the patient and truly redefines the model of care. Kenna’s holistic care is both data driven and scientifically anchored by decades of evidence. Kenna doesn’t treat conditions or ailments, she treats patients, she knows that no two patients are ever the same and each require a personalized plan, a plan that seeks to balance the physical, the emotional and the spiritual. Dr Stephenson has lectured and mentored in Australia for over two decades, her leadership in the field of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy has helped shape the practice of integrated medicine worldwide.

—Professor Trent Twomey

School of Medicine & Dentistry James Cook University, Australia National President – The Pharmacy Guild of Australia Vice President – The World Pharmacy Council

About Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Kenna Stephenson, a family physician, author, teacher, and researcher thrives on helping others achieve well-being. At age 5, she declared her desire to become a physician. As a Texas teen she worked in the cotton fields, then excelled in fast food at KFC, and following her 18th birthday, she eagerly became a certified nurse’s aide. She received her last nurse’s aide paycheck on graduation day from medical school. In caring for over 100,000 patients in diverse settings including: a Marae in New Zealand, under triple canopy jungles of Central America, inside a mobile unit traversing Texas mine fields, and on a Paramount Pictures’ set, along with private practice, community, global and academic medicine, she fulfills her passions for exploration and adventure. A native Texan and honors graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, she completed the Doctor of Medicine degree with Research Honors at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center which included a student fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. Her residency at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center culminated with the Resident’s Resident Award.

Her career encompasses underserved areas of Texas, Arizona, Central America, Southeast Asia, and New Zealand. An award-winning science communicator, she hosted health programs on CBS and NBC Texas affiliates and has lectured on 6 continents. Her research has been featured in: Family Practice News, Cardiology News, Ob/Gyn News, Medscape, UK News Digest, and Cleveland Clinic Heart and Brain Summit. Her clinical research in women’s health is recognized by The European Society of Endocrinology 2025 clinical practice guidelines for evaluation and management of menopause and the perimenopause, and cited in a 2023 Mayo Clinic review, “Addressing the Missing Links in Cardiovascular Aging”. She serves as an Associate Professor of Family, Community & Preventive Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and is the Founding Medical Director of Team-5 Medical Foundation. Her book, The Gospel of Women’s Health: Awakening Athena Again has received international acclaim.

Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Dr. Kenna’s Mission

illuminate...

inspire...

ignite...

Dr. Kenna's Book

The Gospel of Women's Health

Buy The Gospel of Women's Health: Awakening Athena Again

Dr. Kenna's Projects

Workshops

Dr. Kenna on the Women Talking Frankly Podcast

Presentation Topics and many more available!

The Power of Touch in Creating Health

Women’s Heart Health

When Dreams Speak

Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Just Me?

Schedule a Presentation or Workshop

Praise for the Work of Dr. Kenna Stephenson

Takutakina

About Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Top 50 Women Leaders in Medicine of 2025

It is time to Take Control of Your Health

Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Dr. Kenna’s Mission

illuminate...

inspire...

ignite...

Dr. Kenna's Book

The Gospel of Women's Health

Buy The Gospel of Women's Health: Awakening Athena Again

Dr. Kenna's Projects

Workshops

Dr. Kenna on the Women Talking Frankly Podcast

Presentation Topics and many more available!

The Power of Touch in Creating Health

Women’s Heart Health

When Dreams Speak

Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Just Me?

Schedule a Presentation or Workshop

Praise for the Work of Dr. Kenna Stephenson

Takutakina

About Dr. Kenna Stephenson, MD

Top 50 Women Leaders in Medicine of 2025

It is time to Take Control of Your Health

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