IHPC Board of Directors, Chair
NED Planning Team

Sheila Quinn
Sheila Quinn has held significant leadership positions in health-related nonprofit organizations over many years: Co-founder and Vice President at Bastyr University (1978-1990); Executive Director of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (1993-2000); Senior Editor and Special Projects at The Institute for Functional Medicine (2000-2007). Her passions are editing/writing and public policy advocacy. In pursuit of the latter, 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). She has served on the Building Bridges group, the Steering Committee of King County Integrated Health Care 2010, and the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (where she is currently Board Chair and member of the Steering Committee). At the Institute for Functional Medicine, she served as managing editor of the first-ever Textbook of Functional Medicine (for which she was also a contributing author); she was managing editor on the re-issue of Clinical Nutrition: A Functional Approach (2nd Ed.); 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]; and authored the self study that gained IFM six-year reaccreditation with commendation. As a freelancer since October 2007, she was editor and second author for a monograph on depression (with Robert Hedaya, MD), and she researched and wrote a curriculum in integrative medicine for the fellowship program at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Over the years, she has managed and edited journals, written numerous reports and self studies, managed institutional finances and administrative services, and helped to advance the success of the many organizations to which she has devoted her time and energy. Through her 40+ years of work both inside and outside the healthcare mainstream, she has become knowledgeable about both conventional and alternative medicine and health-related public policy issues, and is committed to helping create a safe and effective integrated healthcare system. She is currently working as a freelance editor, writer, and public policy advocate.

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