Dr. Christal Dickun is the Founder of Foundations Health Centers. She is a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician with over 13 years of experience practicing medicine.

Dr. Dickun grew up in Connecticut and attended college at the University of Connecticut where she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Molecular and Cell Biology. Dr. Dickun’s medical training began in Philadelphia where she attended medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine. Coming from a military family, she joined the United States Navy at that time and completed an Emergency Medicine Residency program at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. Dr. Dickun served as an active duty Emergency Medicine physician for the U.S. Navy at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, in addition to deploying to Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom and supported the Pacific Fleet at Naval Hospital Guam before being honorably discharged as a Lieutenant Commander in 2016.

At that time, Dr. Dickun and her family returned to the Pittsburgh area where her husband was born and raised. She shifted her focus to learning about helping people with substance abuse. In 2023 she moved to the Melbourne, FL area and worked as a staff physician helping people overcome their addictions at JourneyPure Melbourne. She opened Foundations Health Centers in January 2026.