Dr. Sue Malley, MD
Board-certified physician practicing integrative and functional medicine — combining conventional diagnostics with root-cause investigation, nutritional science, and the unhurried attention that chronic conditions actually require.
Most chronic illness isn't a single broken part — it's a pattern. My work is to find the pattern, not to suppress the symptom that announces it.
A clinician who trained in conventional medicine, then refused to stop at its edges.
Dr. Sue Malley began in family medicine — twelve years of primary care across hospital and community settings. She left the seven-minute visit behind in 2014, when it became clear that the patients who needed her most were the ones the system could not slow down for.
Her practice now sits at the intersection of conventional diagnostics and functional root-cause methodology. She is not anti-pharmaceutical. She is pro-precision: the right intervention, in the right order, for the specific human seated across from her.
Consultations are ninety minutes. Follow-ups are forty-five. No one is rushed, and no one leaves with a prescription before they have been heard.
Photographed at the practice, 2024. Dr. Malley sees patients in-person and via telemedicine across twelve states.
The consultation room is built for ninety minutes of conversation — not the seven-minute standard.
Botanical, nutritional, and pharmaceutical — selected by evidence and individual tolerance, never by habit.
The symptom is a messenger, not the message.
Fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, digestive distress — these are signals. They point to upstream dysfunction. Suppressing them with a prescription before investigating their origin is not medicine; it is noise reduction.
Every body has a history.
Genetics, trauma, environment, diet, sleep, infections, antibiotics, stress load — the body you arrive in is the sum of what has happened to it. A consultation is an act of archeology, not triage.
Precision before protocol.
Two patients with the same diagnosis rarely need the same treatment. Lab ranges are population statistics, not personal thresholds. We interpret your data against your optimal — not against a broad average.
The patient is the clinician's collaborator.
You will leave every visit understanding what we are doing, why, and what we will measure next. A treatment plan you cannot explain is a plan that will not be followed.
Four principles that govern every consultation.
These are not marketing language. They are the operating constraints of the practice — the commitments that determine how time is spent, which tests are ordered, and how outcomes are measured.
If you are looking for a physician who will write a prescription in the first ten minutes, this is not the right practice. If you are looking for someone to investigate patiently, in conversation with you over months, it is.
Where the work tends to concentrate.
Thyroid & Autoimmune
Hashimoto's, Graves, subclinical hypothyroidism, elevated antibodies without clear diagnosis. Full thyroid panel — TSH, free T3, free T4, reverse T3, antibodies — not just TSH alone.
→Gut & Microbiome
SIBO, IBS, reflux, post-antibiotic dysbiosis, food sensitivities, intestinal permeability. Comprehensive stool diagnostics and targeted, phased protocols.
→Hormonal & Perimenopause
Perimenopause, menopause, PCOS, irregular cycles, low testosterone. Bioidentical options where clinically indicated, always with monitoring and review.
→Chronic Fatigue & Long COVID
Post-viral fatigue, ME/CFS, persistent post-COVID symptoms. Mitochondrial support, pacing strategies, autonomic regulation, and gradual restoration.
→Cardiometabolic Health
Lipid optimization, insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, hypertension. Advanced lipid panels (ApoB, Lp(a), LDL-P) and inflammatory markers beyond the standard panel.
→Cognitive & Mood
Brain fog, anxiety, depression, early cognitive decline. Nutritional psychiatry, root-cause neurotransmitter support, and metabolic brain health.
→Complex & Undiagnosed
When multiple specialists have not produced answers. The intake is exhaustive — and the investigation is patient-led, methodical, and unhurried.
→How a consultation actually unfolds.
Intake
A 22-page intake form, completed before we meet. Every system, every history, every concern. We do not begin the visit cold.
Investigation
90 minutes together. We walk through your timeline. We order the labs that matter — conventional and functional, as indicated.
Protocol
A written plan: what we are addressing first, what we are measuring, what success looks like. Delivered within seven days.
Refinement
45-minute follow-ups at 6 and 12 weeks. We adjust based on response — not on assumption. Healing is iterative.
Training, board certifications, and teaching appointments.
MD — University of Michigan Medical School
Doctor of Medicine, with honors in family medicine. Residency at the University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine, 2003–2006.
Primary Care Physician
Eight years in community and hospital-based family medicine. Over 14,000 patient visits. The seven-minute visit became unsustainable — and the leaving became inevitable.
IFMCP — Institute for Functional Medicine
Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. Two-year certification program completed alongside active clinical practice.
ABFM — American Board of Family Medicine
Board-certified in Family Medicine. Recertified 2021. Active medical license in twelve states via the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
Clinical Faculty — Michigan State University
Adjunct clinical faculty, Department of Family Medicine. Precepts fourth-year medical students in integrative medicine electives, two semesters per year.
Fellowship — Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
Two-year fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Curriculum in botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, and mind-body therapies.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Author and co-author on papers in the Journal of Functional Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Frontiers in Endocrinology. Full publication list available on request.
What patients say when they have time to say it.
"After three years and four specialists who told me my labs were 'normal,' Dr. Malley was the first clinician who actually read them with me. She found a pattern no one had named. Six months later, I have a protocol that works and a physician who returns my calls."
"I came in for fatigue. We spent ninety minutes on the first visit. She asked about my sleep, my history, my mother's history, the antibiotics I took in 2019. By the end I understood my own body in a way I never had. That alone was worth it."
"My previous doctor's appointment was eleven minutes. Dr. Malley's was ninety. The difference is not just time — it's that she used the time to think. I have never felt more like a collaborator in my own care."
"I am a physician myself, and I was skeptical. Dr. Malley's rigor is unimpeachable — she ordered the right tests, interpreted them precisely, and built a plan I could explain to my own patients. This is what medicine should look like."
A consultation begins with a conversation, not a portal message.
New patient consultations are 90 minutes, conducted in-person at the New York practice or via secure telemedicine in twelve states. The intake form is sent within 48 hours of scheduling.
If you are uncertain whether the practice is the right fit, request a complimentary 15-minute phone call. We will discuss your case briefly and decide together whether to proceed.
118 West 23rd Street
Suite 4FR
New York, NY 10011
[email protected]
+1 (212) 555-0148
Mon–Thu · 9am–5pm ET