IHPC Board of Directors, Chair
NED Planning Team
Sheila Quinn, Chair
Sheila Quinn has worked in health-related nonprofit organizations for more than thirty years. The years as Co-founder and Vice President (Finance/Admin) at Bastyr University (1978-1990) and Executive Director of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (1993-2000) were followed by a brief stint at an alternative medicine dot-com as VP for Content and Public Policy. She helped to organize the Seattle Town Hall Meeting for the White House Commission on CAM Policy in October 2000, and was on the Steering Committee for the 2001 National Policy Dialogue to Advance Integrated Health Care: Finding Common Ground (for which she co-edited the final report). Over the years, she has served on the Building Bridges group, the Steering Committee of KC Integrated Health Care 2010, and the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (where she is currently Board Chair and member of both the Executive Committee and the Education Task Force). She is an experienced writer and editor. In November 2000 she became Senior Editor at the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM). Most recently, she was managing editor on their re-issue of Clinical Nutrition: A Functional Approach (2nd Ed.), and was a co-author on "Healthy aging and the origins of illness: Improving the expression of genetic potential" [Integrative Medicine. Dec 2003/Jan 2004;2(6):16-25]. She is currently functioning as managing editor of the first-ever Textbook of Functional Medicine (and has contributed some health policy content for the book). Through her 40+ years of work both inside and outside the healthcare mainstream, she has become knowledgeable about health-related public policy issues and is committed to helping create a safe and effective integrated healthcare system. She appreciates the support she gets from IFM to continue this work in her current position. (sheilaquinn@fxmed.com, (253) 853-9288)