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Systems biology education for clinicians treating complex chronic disease.
A rigorous learning community for functional medicine doctors and chronic disease specialists ready to reason across networks, mechanisms and lived cases.
Why it exists
CSI is being shaped for practitioners who want to move beyond isolated pathways and build fluency across immune, metabolic, endocrine, neurological and environmental dynamics.
MechanismsTrace patterns across interacting biological networks.
CasesTranslate scientific reasoning into clinical judgement.
CollaborationLearn with doctors and specialists facing similar complexity.
Learning focus
The first program direction will be refined with early registrants, with an emphasis on clinically useful systems biology rather than generic continuing education.
How signalling, metabolism and regulation behave as connected systems.
Patterns that link chronic symptoms, resilience, load and recovery.
Case-led reasoning that keeps mechanistic thinking grounded in patient care.
Reading emerging science without losing sight of uncertainty or context.
Who it is for
Functional medicine doctors, chronic disease specialists, integrative GPs and clinician-researchers are invited to help shape the first cohort.
Practitioners seeking a deeper biological model for complex presentations.
Specialists who want scientific precision without losing clinical nuance.
Doctors interested in cohort learning, case discussion and collaborative inquiry.
Who we are
CSI is being developed by collaborators who work across clinical care, patient-led research, complex systems modelling and translational education.
Physician-engineer; Chief Medical Officer, Renegade Research
John is trained in geriatric rehabilitation and population health, and is internationally recognised for work in Long COVID and other post-infectious conditions. His focus is scalable therapeutic strategy for persistent inflammation, microvascular dysfunction and access to n=1 care, drawing on the same systems approach he used in his own Long COVID recovery.
Renegade Research
Systems engineer; CEO and founding member, Renegade Research
Isabel pivoted from a medical career disrupted by ME/CFS into systems engineering. She is a board-certified health and wellness coach, AIP Certified, directs Remission Biome and co-founded Renegade Medical Coaching.
Renegade Research
Systems modeller; creator, Born Free Protocol
Joshua is a retired multidisciplinary engineer and recovered severe ME/CFS patient whose work focuses on systems-level modelling of complex chronic disease, including metabolomic and ionomic interpretation and visual translation tools.
Joshua LeiskRegister interest
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