Dr. Somer DelSignore, DNP, PNP-BC, MAPS Fellow 2025

Meet Dr. DelSignore

Dr. Somer DelSignore is a champion of root-cause medicine.

Board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP-BC) · MAPS Fellow 2025 · ILADS member

Dr. Somer DelSignore, DNP
“The child who changes overnight is having a medical event, not a behavioral one.”
Dr. Somer DelSignore
Her story

It started in a hospital corridor.

She was ten years old, watching a team work to save her mother after a car accident. That was the seed. She wanted to be one of the people who could do that for someone else’s family.

She chose nursing over medicine deliberately. Not see the disease, treat the disease, but the whole picture: the environment, the food, the sleep, the mind and the body, together. Time in a pediatric intensive care unit taught her how fast a child can change. And how much can be going on underneath one symptom.

Then she went back for her Doctor of Nursing Practice — to lead her patients’ care, not just carry it out.


The illness the system keeps moving past.

Dr. DelSignore treats chronic, multi-system illness in children and young adults — the families who have already been through the specialists and come away with pieces of an answer.

Tick-borne illness. PANS and PANDAS. The child who changes overnight. Mast cell activation. The long tail of an infection that never fully cleared.

She trained under two clinicians who defined the field: one in pediatric Lyme, one in PANS/PANDAS. What she built from it is her own: the R.E.S.E.T. protocol, ten root causes mapped for every family before anything is treated.


A kitchen table in the Hudson Valley.

She came home and began seeing families at a kitchen table — families who had already decided they were following her. That practice is now Hudson Valley Integrative Health, on Main Street in Beacon.

It has stayed small on purpose. That is not modesty. Small is why the work holds up.


Training

  • Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) — SUNY Upstate
  • Master of Science in Nursing — University of Pennsylvania
  • Board-certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP-BC)
  • Fellow, Medical Academy of Pediatrics and Special Needs (MAPS), 2025
  • Fellow, American Academy of Ozone Therapy
  • Member, International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS)
  • Over 20 years of clinical experience

Every family here gets the same first question: what are the three things that would change your life most?

Everything after that is built to answer it.


Hear Dr. Somer

Dr. Somer is often invited to talk about pediatric Lyme, PANS/PANDAS, and root-cause medicine. Here are a few conversations worth starting with.

  • Ticktective (Bay Area Lyme Foundation)

    Apr 2026

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  • The Lyme+ Podcast (Global Lyme Alliance)

    Is It Anxiety or Lyme? (May 2026)

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  • Demystifying PANS/PANDAS with Dr. Nancy O’Hara

    When Neurodevelopmental Symptoms Start in the Womb (Jun 2026)

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  • Tick Boot Camp

    Apr 2026

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  • Integrative Lyme Solutions with Dr. Karlfeldt

    Feb 2026

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  • Everyday Epigenetics

    Root Causes of Chronic Illness in Kids (May 2026)

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  • Love, Hope, Lyme

    Understanding Pediatric Lyme and the Family Impact (Mar 2026)

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More conversations
  • The Healing Grove

    May 2026

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  • Lyme Time with the Tick Chicks

    Pediatrics and Young Adults x Lyme (Feb 2026)

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  • Lyme and Beyond with Tanya

    The RESET Protocol & Children’s Health (Dec 2025)

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  • LymeBytes! with Dr. Myriah Hinchey

    No One’s Talking About This Lyme Risk (Aug 2025)

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  • The Vibrant Wellness Podcast

    Unveiling the Complexities of Pediatric Tickborne Diseases (Jul 2023)

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