IHPC Board of Directors
NED Planning Team

Pamela Snider, ND
Pamela Snider is Consortium Director for the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC). She received her ND degree in 1982, from Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences. A nationally recognized integration and CAM policy leader, she is active in both national and local integration initiatives, including the executive team and Board of Directors of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium, (IHPC) and the Education Task Force. (ETF). Both ACCAHC and ETF are national working groups of the IHPC. Her work has included currently serving as a Medicare advisor, co-directing an exploration of the connection between public health and CAM, and playing an important role in drafting key language in the NCCAM legislation and participating in the White House Commission Report. From 1994-2003, Dr. Snider served as Associate Dean for Public and Professional Affairs, Associate Dean for Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University, dividing her work between academic, and public affairs activities, including chairing the curriculum review committee and its interdisciplinary expert teams. She continues her academic and research work there as a member of the faculty. Her areas of expertise include: health care education; curriculum development; clinical practice; government and legislative affairs, public policy, practice, and complementary and alternative medicine research with an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and public health. She is a co-investigator in the just published NCCAM research study the North American Naturopathic Medical Research Agenda ; CAM Advisor in NIHCCAM's Financing Integrative Health Care (University of Washington) and Managing Editor for the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project, an international textbook of naturopathic medicine. Dr. Snider has received the Ontario Naturopathic Physician of the Year Award, the Physician of the Year Award from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), the President 's Outstanding Vision Award at Bastyr University, and AANP's President's Award.

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