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Era of Naturopathic Medicine Renaissance
re-emerging profession: naturopathy to naturopathic medicine
column change its title to “Ask the Naturopathic Doctor” with Ms. Brechka’s support.
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1990
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
AANP: Cathy Rogers, ND, President; Konrad Kail, ND, PA, Vice President; Brent Mathieu, ND, Speaker of the House of Delegates; John Weeks, Executive Director.
Chris Turner, ND, is president of NPLEX Board until 1998 and again from 2000-2001.
LICENSURE, EXAMINATIONS, REGULATORY, AND LICENSING BOARDS
Department of Education threatens to remove recognition of CNME. AANP led campaign creates profession’s first significant Congressional support to help maintain the recognition (1991). Carlo Calabrese, ND, leads strategy, testimony to US Dept. of Education.
NPLEX publishes first Part I-Basic Sciences Examinations; Anna MacIntosh, PhD, ND, leads developing basic science blueprints. Christa Louise becomes founding NPLEX Executive Director.
Ontario Association of Naturopathic Physicians halts deregulation of NDs; NDs remain under the Drugless Practitioners Act. Province wide lobbying campaign to halt deregulation led by Patricia Wales, ND (ONA President), Dan Labriola, ND, Edie Pett, ND, Pamela Snider, ND, and Jim Spring, ND.
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
Founding of naturopathic program in Managua, Nicaragua at Universidad Popular de Nicaragua (UPONIC). XX
Institute of Naturopathic Education and Research (INER) plays prominent role during significant
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reorganization phase at OCNM. Stephen Hambly, OCNM President, resigns, and major change
in membership of the OCNM Governing Board ensues. Don Warren, ND, appointed Chair, and Robert Schad, Vice Chair, of the new Board (both until 1993). Pat Hutchinson leads the transition team.
The New England School of Homeopathy is founded by Paul Herscu, ND, DHANP, and Amy Rothenberg, ND, DHANP to provide training in homeopathy to practitioners in United States and abroad. Focus is translating homeopathic philosophy into successful, enjoyable practice of homeopathic medicine.
RESEARCH: INSTITUTES, GRANTS, AND PUBLICATIONS
“Randomized, Double-Blind Study of Freeze-Dried Urtica dioica in The Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis.” Paul Mittman, ND. Planta Medica. Double-blind study investigating the use of nettles in the treatment of allergic rhinitis is first randomized clinical trial published by an ND in an international, peer-reviewed journal.
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
GCRN (UK) publishes Report of the Commission on Naturopathic Medicine. XX
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Bert Hellinger developed the Family Constellations, also known as Systemic Constellations and Systemic Family Constellations, during the 1990s, combining family systems therapy, existential phenomenology, German familial war trauma experience and Zulu attitudes towards family as a therapeutic method for treating transgenerational family and collective patterns of dysfunction and disease. XX
Clinical Hydrotherapy. Leo M. Scott, DC, ND. Frontiers of Natural Therapies. Judy Jacka, ND.
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