Dr. Hightower is an internal medicine physician in San Francisco, California. She is board certified by the National Board of Physician and Surgeons (NBPAS) from 2017 until present. She was also board certified under the American Board of Internal Medicine from 1992 through 2022.
She has special interests in nutrition and environmental contaminants and their impact on health, as well as interest in preventive and diagnostic medicine.
Dr. Hightower is an internal medicine physician in San Francisco, California. She is board certified by the National Board of Physician and Surgeons (NBPAS) from 2017 until present. She was also board certified under the American Board of Internal Medicine from 1992 through 2022.
She has special interests in nutrition and environmental contaminants and their impact on health, as well as interest in preventive and diagnostic medicine.
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The doctor was very attentive and informed. She took the time to ask lots of questions. I did not feel rushed
(2 weeks ago)
May-2026
Dr. Hightower is very knowledgeable, thorough and invested in her patients. There is genuine discussion. She is also very kind and thoughtful.
(5 months ago)
Dec-2025
A great doctor in all that that means. Dr. Hightower is a caring, knowledgeable, super smart, curious, researcher and patient advocate, has intuition that is sharpened by experience or perhaps experience that is made brilliant by experienced intuition? In any case, an excellent medical problem solver and a doctor you absolutely want on your team.
(5 months ago)
Dec-2025
The very best doctor!!
(9 months ago)
Aug-2025
Always informational and a pleasure.
(9 months ago)
Aug-2025
San Francisco
1 Daniel Burnham Court Suite 370C San Francisco, CA 94109
Dr. Hightower is an internal medicine physician in San Francisco, California. She is board certified by the National Board of Physician and Surgeons (NBPAS) from 2017 until present. She was also board certified under the American Board of Internal Medicine from 1992 through 2022.
She has special interests in nutrition and environmental contaminants and their impact on health, as well as interest in preventive and diagnostic medicine.
In 2000, her landmark study on mercury levels in patients in her San Francisco practice, subsequently published in Environmental Health Perspectives in 2002, lead to the current FDA recommendations on fish consumption. She subsequently published multiple scientific papers on the subject, has given numerous lectures, and is now considered a leading world’s authority on mercury as it pertains to health. Dr. Hightower is the author of Diagnosis Mercury: Money Politics and Poison, which sheds light on the history of this metal through time.
In 2017, Dr. Hightower published another landmark paper on vitamin D, and chronic myofascial pain and how they are inter-related. This peer reviewed scientific paper describes how magnesium deficiency is the key to low vitamin D and chronic pain, and together, those factors have an association with cancer, colon polyps, and tendon rupture. It also describes how drinking water that does not contain magnesium, contributes to magnesium deficiency.
The doctor was very attentive and informed. She took the time to ask lots of questions. I did not feel rushed
Dr. Hightower is very knowledgeable, thorough and invested in her patients. There is genuine discussion. She is also very kind and thoughtful.
A great doctor in all that that means. Dr. Hightower is a caring, knowledgeable, super smart, curious, researcher and patient advocate, has intuition that is sharpened by experience or perhaps experience that is made brilliant by experienced intuition? In any case, an excellent medical problem solver and a doctor you absolutely want on your team.
The very best doctor!!
Always informational and a pleasure.