Joseph E. Pizzorno Jr ND

Dr. Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D., appointed by President Clinton in 2000 to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and by President Bush to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee in 2002, is one of the world’s leading authorities on science-based natural medicine. A naturopathic physician, educator, researcher and expert spokesperson, he is the founding president of Bastyr University. Under his leadership, Bastyr became the first accredited, multidisciplinary university of natural medicine and the first NIH-funded centre for alternative medicine research. In June 2000, Dr. Pizzorno retired after 22 years from the presidency of Bastyr University.

In 1996 he was appointed to the Seattle/King County Board of Health and was a founding board member of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia. He served as Chair of the American Public Health Association SPIG on CAM from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, he joined the Scientific Review Board of the Gateway for Cancer Research Foundation and the Institute for Functional Medicine Board of Directors (where he now serves as Treasurer). In 2002, he became the founding editor-in-chief of Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, the most widely distributed peer-reviewed journal in the field. From 2007 to 2013, he served as the Integrative Medicine and Wellness expert for WebMD. He has been a licensed naturopathic physician (with prescriptive authority) in Washington State since 1975.