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Naturopathic Medicine Advances Family Planning and Fertility Treatment in Collaboration With Conventional Medical Professionals. ND Perspective By: Rachel Corradetti-Sargeant, BSc Kin, ND For most couples, the thought of starting a family is an exciting time filled with anticipation and hope, but for some the road to conception isn’t quite as easy as they might have…

DATE POSTED: May 14, 2024 View Posting

Professional partnerships in care, a complementary system for Manitobans living with chronic Lyme disease By: Jason Bachewich, ND   The Tick Collaborative Care Service (TiCCS) is a clinical ecosystem of healthcare practitioners who share a desire to support Manitobans with diagnosing and managing chronic Lyme and other tick borne diseases. Often times, patients spend months…

DATE POSTED: May 12, 2024 View Posting

By Dr.Iva Lloyd , ND - Before the naturopathic profession became my second career, I spent years working as an operations manager for a computing services company. My passion for health information led me to leave the corporate sector to pursue a career in healthcare, although I wasn’t sure what that was going to look…

DATE POSTED: Nov 16, 2023 View Posting

By Dr. Ann Grimwood, ND, and Dr. Rebecca Handford, ND   The Vancouver Women’s Health Collective (VWHC) is a non-profit organization helping all who self-identify as women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming to foster health, wellness, and equity through feminist approaches to advocacy, shared knowledge, and low-barrier programs and services. In 2020, just as the pandemic…

DATE POSTED: May 14, 2023 View Posting

By Dr. Johanne McCarthy, ND As a young Indigenous woman with a deep love and revere for nature, and an intuitive connection to people, plants and animals, I always felt slightly uncomfortable in the regimented and ordered setting of a classroom. When I was in high school a counselor told me that Indigenous women don’t…

DATE POSTED: May 12, 2023 View Posting

By Dr. Robyn Prescott, ND Naturopathic doctors know how critical partnership is to excellent patient care – we can’t support our patients’ health without their active collaboration to implement the solutions we develop with them. I learn from my patients every day and am inspired by their resilience in embracing new behaviours to improve their…

DATE POSTED: May 17, 2022 View Posting

Dr. Ashley Margeson and Dr. Ben Connolly are licensed naturopathic doctors from Nova Scotia, specializing in burnout recovery. “When you support all aspects of a partnership, the partnership grows stronger. Within our clinical work, we focus on supporting the various needs of a relationship by individually treating both partners through hormonal shifts, mental health shifts…

DATE POSTED: Feb 18, 2022 View Posting

    In honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day, we’d like to recognize Dr. Jeanne Paul, ND.   "My name is Malmentle in our Tla'amin language and I am of the Coast Salish tribe".   I attended National University of Natural Medicine and graduated in 1991 as the first First Nations to graduate in this profession.…

DATE POSTED: Jun 28, 2021 View Posting

To celebrate this year’s Pride Month, we’d like to showcase one of the many NDs working in collaboration with the LGBTQ2IA+ community.   Dr. Sam Clouthier, ND co-owns an integrative health clinic in Fort McMurray, AB., where she focuses on mental health, addiction, and LGBTQ2IA+ health in private practice.  She also sits on the board…

DATE POSTED: May 28, 2021 View Posting

  "Dr. Barbara Weiss, ND is the Vice Chair of the Board for the Community Health Centres of Northumberland.   Currently, Dr. Weiss, ND works alongside other healthcare professionals to shape how healthcare will be delivered under the new structure.    "I am proud to be at the table as a naturopathic doctor living and…

DATE POSTED: Apr 28, 2021 View Posting