Her Story

Mary grew up the oldest of two children in a small town outside of Buffalo, NY. Raised by parents who grew up on farms, she was fortunate to have an upbringing that included growing their own food, cooking from scratch, and working hard outside on the land. The health benefits she saw as a result of this lifestyle planted a seed that would be cultivated years later.

Her love of medicine was nurtured by running around her mother’s medical practice in their small town. Mary spent every spare moment at the family business, eventually following in her mother’s footsteps to become a medical provider. In addition to working in our practice, Mary is blessed to now care for patients alongside her mother in their private, primary care office in their hometown.

A pivotal moment came during her freshman year of high school, when she attended a guest lecture by Dr. T. Colin Campbell. From that day, she fell in love with an unprocessed, whole foods, plant-based way of living and never looked back.

Education & Training

Mary graduated from Canisius College with her bachelor’s in biology, then graduated top of her class from Yale School of Medicine with her Master of Physician Assistant Studies. While at Yale, she helped develop the lifestyle medicine course, which included her thesis on the power of an exclusively whole foods, plant-based diet.

Her passion for healing through lifestyle changes led Mary to work at True North Health Center in California, where she witnessed the power of water-only fasting, as well as what a salt-, oil-, and sugar-free plant-foods diet can do for the diseases that plague so many people.

Her Approach

Mary’s nutrition consultations focus on food as the starting point — helping patients understand how what they eat shapes metabolism, inflammation, digestive health, and energy. Her guidance draws on whole-food, plant-forward nutrition, including salt-, oil-, and sugar-free strategies where appropriate, along with education on fasting and metabolic health.

Her approach is personalized and practical. Rather than prescribing a single template, she works with where you actually are — your preferences, your constraints, and your goals — to build eating patterns you can genuinely sustain.

Mary resides outside of East Aurora with her parents and two dogs, Lottie and Maggie, who enjoy roaming the acreage and helping “mom” in her vegetable garden. In her spare time, she spends her days gardening, tending her orchard, sewing, knitting, reading, traveling, and being physically active. She especially enjoys her morning walk outside, where she can be at one with nature.

Her Story

Kacie earned her Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise with a concentration in Dietetics from Virginia Tech, and is a graduate of the Syracuse University Dietetic Internship program. She holds certificates of training in both Adult Weight Management and Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT).

Her career began as an inpatient Dietitian at F.F. Thompson Hospital, where she worked across different floors, outpatient cardiac rehab, outpatient nutrition therapy, and the rehab floor of the M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center. She then worked as a community nutrition Dietitian on a New York state grant-funded program for childhood obesity prevention, doing nutrition education and cooking demonstrations with young children, their parents, and child care workers.

Research & Expertise

Kacie spent 11 years working at the Center for Community Health & Prevention at URMC with Dr. Geoffrey Williams, translating Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and its application in interventions for health-related motivation — including lipids management, weight loss, and diabetes prevention. She advanced from Clinical Nutrition Specialist to Clinical Nutrition Manager during her time there.

She completed intensive training in Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) facilitated by Jean Kristeller, Ph.D. and Andrea Lieberstein, MPH, RDN, RYT. Mindful eating is about bringing awareness to your senses while you eat, paying attention to mental and physical cues — noticing the difference between your sense of hunger, your sense of fullness, and your sense of satisfaction.

Her Approach

Kacie is passionate about supporting patients on their health journeys. She believes it is important to honor your health, respect your body, and practice making peace with food. She’ll guide you in learning and practicing mindful eating techniques to help you manage food cravings, reduce overeating, and nourish your mind and body. If you need to integrate a therapeutic eating plan into your life, she will work with you to find a balance that is right for you — without flavoring your food with any more guilt.

When Kacie is not working, you can find her in Canandaigua with her husband, two daughters, cat, and dog. She enjoys spending time in nature, attending concerts at CMAC, and making mindful memories with her family on their travels together.

Her Role

Annie has a passion for helping others become their best selves. Her focus is to empower patients through motivation, inspiration, and guided discussions. As the Health Coach, she conducts pre-discovery consultations — typically 60 to 90 minutes — where she gathers comprehensive information about your health history, prescriptions, supplements, family history, surgeries, stressors, and chronic illnesses.

These visits involve a collaborative approach to establish health goals, address challenges, initiate testing, and begin uncovering root causes of your health concerns. Annie sets the foundation that allows Dr. Grover to dig deeper during your discovery consult.

Her Background

Sarah is a board-certified health coach with personal experience navigating and healing autoimmune challenges — for both herself and her children. That lived experience has driven her passion for holistic health and shaped how she supports the patients she meets in the office.

Her Approach

As a Patient Care Coordinator, Sarah brings warmth and steady attention to every interaction. She believes wellness is a whole-person endeavor and that small, consistent shifts in nutrition, sleep, stress, and movement add up to lasting change.

Outside the Office

Sarah enjoys cooking and meal prepping, listening to podcasts and webinars, spending time outdoors, and attending her children’s sporting events — where she focuses on supporting their nutrition and recovery.

Her Background

Zoe is a graduate of Michigan State University. Her background includes years of experience working in medical offices, most recently spending the last few years at an OB/GYN practice. That clinical-office grounding shapes how she handles the rhythm of a busy functional medicine practice.

Her Role

As a Patient Care Coordinator, Zoe is often the first voice you’ll hear when you reach out to the office. She manages patient communication, schedules appointments, coordinates care logistics, and helps ensure that the path from your first inquiry to your follow-up consult feels organized and unhurried.

Outside the Office

When Zoe isn’t in the office, you’ll find her at the barn with her horse, with a book, or listening to music.

Her Background

Zoe graduated from Elon University with a background in psychology and neuroscience. She is a health and wellness coach with Rootine Wellness, focused on creating sustainable lifestyle changes. This September she begins her Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University — bringing the next stage of her clinical training into her work at the practice.

Her Role

As a Patient Care Coordinator, Zoe supports the day-to-day patient experience — helping with scheduling, communication, and the kind of small, attentive details that make a complex care plan feel manageable.

Outside the Office

Zoe loves going on walks, sailing, watching sunsets, playing volleyball, cooking, and baking. She’s a passionate recipe creator who loves working with whole foods and local produce — many of her recipes and meal ideas live on Instagram at @rootinewellness.eats.

Her Story

Pamela C. Grover, M.D., F.A.A.R.M., F.A.A.F.P., grew up on a dairy farm in Western New York — one of six children in a family where health was rooted in physicality, farm-to-table eating, and a deep reliance on nature. Her grandparents lived long, healthy lives with few medications and rare doctor visits. That foundation would shape everything that followed.

A love of competitive sports led Dr. Grover to focus on nutrition and the body’s ability to heal itself. What began as plans to become an athletic trainer evolved into something bigger — a calling to medicine.

Education & Training

Dr. Grover completed medical school at the University at Buffalo, then headed to Clearwater, Florida for her Family Medicine residency at the University of South Florida/Morton Plant Mease program. During her first five years in practice, she taught medical students and residents, directed an underserved health clinic, and completed a fellowship at Michigan State in Primary Care Faculty Development.

From 2006 to 2013, she earned “Top Doctors” honors in the Tampa Bay region and served on the Patient Quality and Safety Committee, as Compliance Committee Chairman, and on the Physician Advisory Board for the Morton Plant Mease Primary Care Group. She completed her fellowship in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine in 2013.

Her Approach

Throughout years of traditional practice, Dr. Grover kept seeing the same thing: conventional medicine was falling short in helping her patients achieve true wellness. That search for better answers led her to Anti-Aging, Regenerative, and Functional Medicine — and in 2013 she moved back to Rochester, NY to practice functional medicine full time, closer to family and closer to the kind of medicine she believes in.

Today, Dr. Grover’s practice emphasizes personalized medicine — using lifestyle changes, diet, targeted supplements, and when appropriate, bio-identical hormones, adrenal, or thyroid support to help patients restore optimal health. She lives in Penfield with her husband, two children, and her dog Penny.