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Naturopathic Medicine
HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
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1989
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
AANP: Cathy Rogers, ND, President; Konrad Kail, ND, PA, Vice President; John Weeks, first paid Executive Director (until 1993); Brent Mathieu, ND, Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Philip Kempling, ND, becomes Chair of CNA until 1991.
LICENSURE, EXAMINATIONS, REGULATORY, AND LICENSING BOARDS
NPLEX is recognized by all state and provincial jurisdictions that license NDs. NPLEX recognizes degrees from OCNM as eligible.
ACCREDITATION
Bastyr College is accredited by Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges (NASC), now NWCCU. First NM college to receive regional accreditation by federally recognized regional accrediting agency. William Keppler, PhD, on-
site reviewer recognizes Bastyr College’s value, advances accreditation.
ACADEMIC: INSTITUTIONS AND COUNCILS
First Indian Bachelor in Naturopathy and
Yogic Sciences (BNYS) degree started by Sri Dharmastala Manjunatheshwara College in Ujjire, Karnataka.
Jim Miller, ThD, becomes president of NCNM until 1993.
Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University), Australia, announces naturopathic degree, program to start in 1991 first naturopathic degree in a public university. Degree is suspended indefinitely after registration of naturopaths removed in 1992.
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LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Commission on Naturopathic Medicine set up by the Government Commission on the Regulation of Naturopathy (GCRN) and International Federation of Practitioners of Natural Therapeutics in the UK.
Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), oversight agency for food and drug regulations, officially classes “CAM” as medicines in Australia. XX
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Paul Bergner writes AANP publications on cost, safety, efficacy and other topics.
PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, DEFINITIONS, AND ETHICS
AANP House of Delegates (HOD) unanimously adopts Definition and Principles of Naturopathic Medicine Position Paper at AANP Convention, Rippling River, OR. First US profession-wide consensus definition of naturopathic medicine based on philosophy, principles of practice, and primary care. CAN members input significant; CAN eventually adopts adapted definition. Led by Co-Chairs, Pamela Snider, Jared Zeff; Committee, K. Wilson, W. Wulsin, B. Milliman, P. Glidden. Reaffirmed in 2001, 2011 by AANP HOD vote.XX
MAINSTREAM EMERGENCE, COLLABORATION, AND INTEGRATION
Emily Kane, ND, LAc, journalist, editor, senior editor of the Journal of Naturopathic Medicine (1989-
96), the scientific, peer-reviewed journal of
the AANP, launches column “Ask the Naturopath” in Prevention Magazine offshoot now called Better Nutrition. Dr. Kane continues popular column in collaboration with editor Nicole Brechka to the present. This work educating the public about naturopathic medicine spans 30 years (360 months of columns; 300,000 issues published monthly and distributed to over one million health food stores). In 2016 Dr. Kane proposed the
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