About Us Patient Care Vision for the Future History of The Stone Institute Dr. Merigian's Bio   Kevin S. Merigian MD In 1956, Kevin S. Merigian, M.D. was born to a lower middle class working family in the inner-city of Detroit Michigan. For the most part, he and his brother and sister were raised by their grandmother and father in a small home in the impoverished city of Highland Park, Michigan. His true academic journey began with a scholarship to a suburban college preparatory high school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The educational community was named Cranbrook. He excelled in the arts and sciences and matriculated to Kalamazoo College for undergraduate studies. He was accepted to the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University in his senior year of college. He ultimately graduated from Michigan State in 1982 with an M.D. degree. In 1991, he was recruited to the University of Tennessee, Memphis to establish a Toxicology Center. Along the way at age 37 years-old he became the founding Chairman of Emergency Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis. In 1997, he stepped down as the Chairman to return to the pursuit of creating The Stone Institute to provide care to patients who are not adequately managed through the conventional orthodox allopathic model of subspecialty medicine. Dr. Merigian believes that each part of the human condition is in itself a whole functioning unit. However, each of these “wholes” is a significant part of the greater organism. Furthermore, each organ system is intimately connected to the others and the boundaries of separation become extremely vague when evaluating the whole person. He has developed interpretations of simple thermographic mapping data to provide information about the body and its function under stress as well as theories on findings in live whole blood analysis via Darkfield microscopy. He treats the most disturbed portion of the whole person first, and then slowly phases in a complex therapeutic adventure on an individual basis. He uses modes of therapy to achieve a healthy end, stressing the importance of proper hormone regulation, immune modulation, and natural balance and minimizing pharmaceutical and chemotherapeutic activities.