Wonderful overlooked fact about Obamacare--it will curtail mandatory alternative medicine coverage!

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293. Why wait for that? Bastyr's researchers have been publishing for decades.

Here's an example of one of the faculty there. She has been conducting NIH studies since 1994 and has a joint appointment at the University of Washington. She also has collaborated with investigators at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, a national cancer facility.

http://www.bastyr.edu/people/alumni-faculty-researcher/leanna-j-standish-phd-nd-lac-fabno


Leanna J. Standish, PhD, ND, LAc, FABNO
School of Naturopathic Medicine

Dr. Standish is currently a research professor for the School of Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr, a clinical professor for the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, and affiliate research professor in the University of Washington's School of Medicine's radiology department.

Dr. Standish is also the medical director of the Bastyr Integrative Oncology Research Center (BIORC) and a clinical research professor at the Bastyr University Research Institute. She has served as principal investigator on several National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants since 1994.

Education

PhD in neuroscience/biopsychology from the University of Massachusetts in 1978
ND from Bastyr University in 1991
MS in acupuncture and Oriental medicine from Bastyr University in 1994
Board certified in naturopathic oncology in 2006

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Research Activities

Dr. Standish's research over the last 15 years has been focused on HIV/AIDS, cancer, hepatitis C and functional brain-imaging cancer. She has collaborated with investigators at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Children's Hospital in the study of CAM use among cancer patients in Washington state and also has directed research at Bastyr University to identify and describe the treatments used for breast cancer by naturopathic physicians in North America.

She has been principal investigator or co-investigator on several integrated oncology research projects including a randomized clinical trial of meditation or massage in end-of-life cancer patients, a phase I study of a medicinal mushroom as an adjuvant treatment for breast cancer, and development of an integrated oncology website for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance physicians and patients. She is the medical director of the new Bastyr University Integrated Oncology Research Clinic (BIORC), and also is interested in the scientific validation of homeopathic principles.

In her clinical practice, Dr. Standish specializes in treating cancer, hepatitis C and neurological diseases. She also conducts basic neurophysiological research on mind/body interactions. She has the experience to mentor postdoctoral fellows in the areas of CAM and integrated cancer treatment and prevention, adjunctive naturopathic medical management of adenocarcinoma, CAM research design, and both practice-based and outcomes research methods.