Welcome to the practice of Phillip C. DeMio, MD

  Dr. DeMio's practice focuses on the medical testing and treatment for your loved one with autism. Read along with us to learn more about Dr. DeMio’s practice, about treating autism, and about related issues.

  Dr. DeMio is the father of a child with autism, and has been an M.D. for over twenty years. He graduated from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with honors in metabolism, women and children’s health, and neurosciences. Prior to medical school he taught and worked in the organic chemistry laboratory at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska. He is a DAN! physician, an author of medical topics including alternative and conventional medicine, and is accredited for speaking nationally on medical topics including brain toxicology, nutrition, and use of supplements in health and disease for children and adults. Dr. DeMio’s philosophy is that our children and loved ones are first and foremost in all of our treatments.

  Angela Shoemaker is our Physician-to-Parent Liaison at both offices. This means that she is working with Dr. DeMio in the biomedical treatment of our kids and patients of all ages. Her role is to work directly with patients in any and all aspects of their medical care. In that capacity she is under Dr. DeMio’s direct supervision at all times, and there is complete communication with every encounter that she does at the offices.

  Autism is a medical disease not a mental disorder. Autism and related diagnosis are collectively known as the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Most patients are diagnosed with an ASD before starting with Dr. DeMio, though many people who come to see us do not have a diagnosis and can start treatment with Dr. DeMio. ASD includes autism (both classic and regressive), PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder), PDD/NOS, Asperger’s Syndrome, ADD/ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), tics including Tourette’s Syndrome, and ODD (Opposition Defiant Disorder). It also includes Infantile Autistic Bipolar disorder, Zapella Syndrome, and Autism/Steatorrhea and other gastrointestinal syndromes (MELA, MGIE, and other mitochondrial disorders). Other disorders that are related to ASD are developmental delay, dyslexia, stuttering, shadow syndromes (bits and pieces of any of the above syndromes without a full diagnosis, (speech delay, learning disability, social phobia, and mood disorders).

  Still further, the group of double syndromes means that an individual has any one of the above ASD disorders plus one of the following: Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, CHARGE Association, purine autism, seizures/epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, viral encephalitis, Rett Complex, hypothyroidism, or other hormonal problems, (diabetes, and pituitary disorders).