The Executive Director of ACCAHC is Pamela Snider, ND. Dr. Snider brings to ACCAHC her extensive background in healthcare education, curriculum development, and governmental and legislative affairs. She has spent many years working effectively in the public policy arena, representing the interests of educational institutions, clinicians in practice, and various organizations and coalitions working toward improving the healthcare system. Her academic work has focused on complementary and alternative medicine, both as a faculty member and dean, and as a collaborator on research projects with an emphasis on interdisciplinary models and public health. Some of the public initiatives she has worked on include the successful effort to upgrade the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM); strategic and policy advisor to White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (WHCCAMP) Commissioner Joseph E Pizzorno, Jr., ND; and co-investigator for NCCAM's Naturopathic Medical Research Agenda (NMRA). Former Associate Dean of Public and Professional Affairs and Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences from 1994-2003, Dr. Snider began her work with the IHPC as a founding member of the Executive Committee in 2001.

Regarding ACCAHC's mission, Snider has said,

"ACCAHC's first goal is to move the CAM academic community forward—to promote educational excellence through outstanding clinical training, equitable access to resources for colleges, students and faculty, enhancement of research capacity, and national policy leadership. We're creating the ground for real healthcare integration through active collaboration among the accredited and emerging CAM academic institutions. ACCAHC members share an important vision for the transformation of the American healthcare system, a vision that focuses at least as much on health creation and healing as on treatment of disease and injury. That full transformation includes collaboration between the CAM and conventional healthcare worlds—both providers and educators. For that reason ACCAHC members are active in the National Education Dialogue to Advance Integrated Health Care: Creating Common Ground (NED). ACCAHC played a pivotal role in the NED meeting of June 2005 at Georgetown University, and is involved in NED's ongoing projects."