Dr. Pieter J. De Wet has been a physician since 1985. He has dedicated his professional career empowering those with health challenges and those who choose to take a more natural and holistic approach to their healing. Dr. De Wet’s motto is that “in order to heal from an illness or dysfunctional behavior, it is necessary to discover and clear it at its roots”. Dr. De Wet has had the privilege of working with and impacting the lives of thousands of people over the span of his medical career who have sought his assistance to help them heal. Dr. De Wet has always dedicated himself to uncovering and implementing the most effective, least harmful and the most cost effective healing strategies to treat patients with complex health challenges.
Dr. De Wet graduated medical school in 1985 at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and has been a family physician since 1991 after obtaining his Board Certification in Family Medicine through the American Board of Family Medicine. Dr. De Wet completed his residency in family medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler in 1991. He pursued a career in academic medicine at UT Health Science Center starting immediately after his residency until he left there in 1997 to go into private practice. Dr. De Wet was associate professor of family medicine and associate program director of the family practice residency program at UT Health Center.
He was also the founder and director of the Center for Nutrition Preventive Medicine there from 1995-1997. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice since 1994 and completed a fellowship in Faculty Development in 1994. He is also a Diplomat of the American Board of Holistic and Integrative Medicine and has been licensed in Arizona in Homeopathic and Integrative medicine since 2007. Dr. De Wet was in private practice, practicing Integrative /Holistic / Wellness Medicine from 1997 through 2016 as the owner and medical director of QHI Wellness in Tyler, TX.