Bastyr University Historical Timeline of Events (1978 - 1997)
1997
Bastyr University Cancer Research Center founded.
1996
Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr., ND, appointed to Seattle/King County Board of Health.
Bastyr awarded contract to locate and run King County Natural Medicine Clinic, the nation’s first government-run natural medicine clinic. Jane Guiltinan, ND (’86), served as co-medical director for the three-year pilot project.
University relocated to 51-acre campus in Kenmore, WA.
1995
Ryan White federal funds received, enabling the teaching clinic to provide free natural health care visits to low-income patients living with HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Jeffrey Bland endowed professorship of therapeutic nutrition established with gift from Healthcomm International, Inc. Faculty member Alan Gaby, MD, appointed to professorship.
Death of John Bartholomew Bastyr, DC, ND, renowned Seattle physician after whom Bastyr University is named.
1994
Name changed to Bastyr University to acknowledge expansion into multidisciplinary institution. Teaching clinic renamed Bastyr University Natural Health Clinic.
Accreditation status granted to AOM program by National Commission for Schools and Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
University awarded landmark $840,000 grant by NIH Office of Alternative Medicine to establish national center for research in alternative medicine treatments for HIV/AIDS, under leadership of researchers Carlo Calabrese, ND, MPH, and Leanna Standish, PhD, ND (’91), MSA (’97), LAc.
"Sister-school" agreement established with Chengdu University in China.
1993
Didactic program in dietetics approved by the American Dietetics Association.
President Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr., ND, appointed to U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on the Safety and Efficacy of Dietary Supplements.
Washington State Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn invited Bastyr to help create models for better inclusion of complementary medicine in the state health care plan.
1992
Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) became affiliated with Bastyr.
1991
Healing AIDS Research Project presented to British Parliament.
1990
Teaching clinic relocated to Seattle’s Wallingford district.
1989
Degree programs in acupuncture and Oriental medicine (AOM) added.
Bastyr College granted accreditation by Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges (NASC) (retroactive to September 1988).
1988
Healing AIDS Research Project began under the direction of Leanna Standish, PhD, ND (’91), MSA (’97), LAc.
1987
Naturopathic medicine program accredited by Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME).
1986
Research department founded.
1985
The ground-breaking A Textbook of Natural Medicine, by Drs. Michael Murray and Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr., published.
1984
BS and MS programs in nutrition established.
School name changed to Bastyr College. Teaching clinic renamed Bastyr College of Natural Medicine Clinic.
1983
Bastyr recognized as candidate for accreditation by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges (NASC), becoming the first naturopathic college to achieve such approval.
1982
Graduation for Bastyr’s first naturopathic medicine class (the first graduates from a four-year U.S. naturopathic college in more than 20 years) held at St. Thomas Center.
Certification in midwifery established.
1980
John Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine Clinic (the college’s teaching clinic) opened.
Bastyr’s library and medicinal herb garden established.
1978
John Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine founded by Les Griffith, ND; William A. Mitchell, Jr., ND; Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr., ND; and Sheila Quinn.
