She is also a practicing physician in the Center for Integrative Health and Healing, the clinical practice of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Richter earned a BS from Pennsylvania State University in General Arts and Sciences with a minor in premedical education and a degree in osteopathic medicine from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She chose to pursue an osteopathic education because it spoke to her belief that the art of medicine was about treating individual people, not individual symptoms. Long before such beliefs became popular, Dr. Richter understood that medicine had to be about treating body, mind and spirit.