POSITIONS  

Member of Ad Hoc Advisory Panel, National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, 1992. 

Board of Trustees, American Holistic Medical Association, 1986-1998. 

President, American Holistic Medical Association, 1994-6. 

Medical Editor, Townsend Letter for Doctors, a monthly publication received by 6.000 health-care professionals; 1985-present. 

Medical Editor, Holistic Medicine, the Magazine of the American Holistic Medical Association, 1990-1996. 

Editorial Review Board, Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, 1990 to present. 

Editorial Review Board, Journal of Applied Nutrition, 1991 to present. 

Editorial Review Board, Journal of Optimal Nutrition,  1993 to 1999. 

Senior Editor, Advances in Natural Therapy, 1998 to 2001. 

President, Center for Accelerated Medical Progress, 1988-1992. Board Member, 1986-1987. 

Medical Editor, Preventive Medicine, the Newsletter of the Northwest Academy of Preventive Medicine; 1982-84. 

Professor of Therapeutic Nutrition, Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine, Seattle, Washington, 1980-82; 1995-2002. 

Consultant to American Medical Security, a medical-insurance company, concerning development of an "alternative-medicine" insurance policy; 1995-1996. 

Peer Reviewer, Archives of Family Medicine; article on testosterone replacement therapy, February 1998. 

Advisory Board, American Whole Health, 1997-1999. 

Chief Medical Editor, HealthNotes, Inc., 1999-present. 

Editorial Board, Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, 2002-present 

Peer Reviewer, Journal of the American Medical Association; article on treatment of osteoarthritis, October 2000. 

Ph.D. Thesis Reviewer: Study of the effect of body iron status and antioxidant taurine on different types of human haemoglobins and blood parameters of iron deficienct and beta-thalassemia subjects. Submitted by Mahmoud Sirdah, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.