Jane Guiltinan, ND
Professor, School of Naturopathic Medicine1 jguiltin@bastyr.edu
As a naturopathic physician at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health, I emphasize prevention and wellness with all of my patients. Almost everyone is interested in what they might do to decrease their chances of getting cancer. There is promising but scanty research providing evidence that dietary, environmental and behavioral factors might significantly impact the incidence of cancer in the American population.
I am extremely interested in discovering new information that will aid in the primary prevention of cancer nationwide. It is important that CAM and non-CAM providers work together to design and carry out effective research in integrated approaches to health care. New models and innovative approaches to research design will be necessary to test hypotheses about CAM therapies. Experts from conventional research will require training from CAM experts in order to understand the similarities and differences in these eclectic systems of medicine.
My experience in training conventional providers about CAM began in 1995, when I was the co-medical director of the King County Natural Medicine Clinic. This publicly funded 3-year pilot project integrated CAM services into an existing community health clinic that had been providing conventional health care services to the underserved in south King County.
