Angelika Rampal, MD, known as Dr. Angel to her patients, is passionate about helping families take impactful and sustainable steps to improve their health. Her work blends science with real-world parenting, providing proactive and practical insights through content and coaching.
From a young age, Dr. Angel knew she wanted to help others, foreshadowing her future in a fifth grade school project. Later, while in college at Stanford University, transformative experiences volunteering at a Mother Teresa clinic in Haiti and studying abroad at Oxford led her to medicine.
Dr. Angel attended medical school at UCSD and then completed her internship, residency, and chief residency at UCLA. She pursued international health projects throughout her education, studying and volunteering in Nepal, India, and Guatemala. She eventually taught medical students and residents in international settings.
After her training at UCLA, Dr. Angel was recruited to join the faculty as the Associate Residency Director and Interim Residency Director. During that time, she completed a fellowship in medical education and became board certified in integrative and holistic medicine. After moving to Virginia with her family, Dr. Angel worked as a partner at Reston Town Center Pediatrics.
Seeing a lag between new research and its application into patient care, Dr. Angel began writing about prevention, nutrition, and lifestyle health. Her insights and tips were geared toward parents and medical professionals alike. From giving her take on children’s feeding guidelines to presenting the benefits of parents stopping to smell their children, Dr. Angel became known for her unique and trusted voice.
When she left private practice and moved back to California, she opened Dr. Angel’s Health and Wellness Coaching. In this work, Dr. Angel draws on over two decades of clinical expertise, experiences raising her own three children, her multicultural perspective, and her integrative health background.
Dr. Angel and her brother, Raman, host The Unplanned Parent, a podcast detailing Raman’s journey into platonic co-parenting with his longtime friend, Ashley. Each episode, Dr. Angel and Raman explore science-backed approaches to creating healthy families, from preconception onwards.
Dr. Angel believes that to grow, nurture, and raise healthy humans, parents have to start with themselves. Focusing on key pillars, like sleep, exercise, nutrition, toxins, stressors, and happiness, families can make small changes that create large ripples.
Across content, consulting sessions, and more, Dr. Angel offers effective and realistic steps people can take today to feel good physically and mentally, reduce illness, and create healthier families, one parent at a time.
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