Westlake Medical Arts

Eleanor Piel Womack, MD, began her education at Manhattan Country School and worked her way through Andover Philips Academy, Harvard University and then Harvard Medical School where she graduated from in 1986. She did an internship at Beth Israel in Boston, a residency at Saint Mary’s in Long Beach, became Board Certified in Internal Medicine and completed an Oncology Fellowship at City of Hope in Duarte, California where she was appointed to a Staff Oncologist position in 1991. After getting married to Clay Womack in 1990 and giving birth to triplet boys in the summer of 1991, she decided to retire from medicine in 1992 to become a full time mother to her growing family. Nine children and 17 years later, she decided to get back into the practice of medicine as she has been always called to do. After a year of rigorous study and preparation, Eleanor passed the Texas SPEX exam in April of 2010 and was issued her medical license from the State of Texas in June of 2010. She launched her functional medicine practice, Westlake Medical Arts in Austin, Texas in 2011 and became Board Certified in Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine in 2014. Eleanor holds memberships in the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, the Institute for Functional Medicine, the American College for Advancement in Medicine, the International Peptide Society, the International Hyperbarics Association, the International Hyperbaric Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association and the Travis County Medical Society. Eleanor serves as Medical Director for ATX Hyperbarics – a hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinic, Organicare, LLC – a consumer healthcare product manufacturer and Scientific Age Management, LLC – an innovative cerebral asset management company. She is also the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of The Oxygen Foundation, Inc., a non-profit foundation which supports education, scientific studies and treatments using Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

Heather Beavers, FNP-C has over 7 years of medical experience but started her career in business. She graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a Bachelor in Business Administration and Marketing degree back in 2009. She spent several years working with a nationally recognized insurance agency. Although she loved customer service, she wanted to interact with others in a more healing environment. She developed a new interest in disease processes and health promotion where she applied and graduated Cum Laude from Texas A & M University in Corpus Christi with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. She began her nursing career in a cardiac step-down intensive care unit. Despite working with some of the best cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons in South Texas, she kept witnessing repeat admissions of her patients. Each time her patients were readmitted, they appeared sicker and sicker. The physicians would prescribe them even more medications to take at home. But for some reason, their symptoms were not controlled. Over the years as an acute care nurse, she became frustrated, and even developed depression. Eventually her health declined, and she gained over 110 pounds! She wanted to take charge of her own health once and for all. She also wanted to find the root cause of illness and was determined to help prevent others from experiencing the negative consequences of polypharmacy and multiple comorbidities. She graduated from Texas State University with a Master of Science: Family Nurse Practitioner degree. She is board certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. As she focused more on her health, she was able to lose over 35 pounds and maintain it with just diet modification alone. She was able to discontinue her blood pressure medication and one of her antidepressants. She soon realized that disease management shouldn’t be primarily focused on medication management. She realized that the mind, body, and spirit should be addressed in order to express change and improve health, physical and mental. She turned her concentration to functional and integrative medicine where she could holistically help her patients with more than just their disease symptoms, but to reverse or prevent diseases and maximize their quality of life. Heather recently joined Westlake Medical Arts in June 2020 and is helping her patients with regeneration and healing through the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. She was trained by one of the most experienced physicians in hyperbaric medicine, Dr. Zayd Ratansi, ND. Heather is also a member and will be working on becoming board certified through the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.