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Bastyr University

Former names	John Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine Bastyr College
Motto	Leading innovation in natural health education
Established	1978
President	Daniel K. Church
Provost	Timothy C. Callahan
Academic staff	273
Students	1018
Address	14500 Juanita Dr. NE, Kenmore, WA 98028-4966 , Kenmore , Washington , US 47.7304°N 122.2528°W / 47.7304; -122.2528
Campus	51 acres
Website	Bastyr.edu

Bastyr University is a natural health arts and sciences university located in Kenmore, Washington and San Diego, California. It offers degrees in naturopathic medicine, acupuncture and Oriental medicine, nutrition, herbal sciences, ayurvedic sciences, exercise science, psychology, midwifery and other programs. Its main campus is on a forested property just north of Seattle, and its second campus opened in San Diego in September 2012.

Bastyr's programs emphasize the healing power of nature and a science-based approach to natural medicine. The university is the largest of seven accredited naturopathic medical schools in North America and is distinguished by its research programs and integration of centuries-old healing traditions with current research on health and human systems.

Bastyr also operates a teaching clinic, Bastyr Center for Natural Health, in Seattle's Fremont/ Wallingford neighborhood. The clinic treats many types of health conditions using naturopathic medicine, acupuncture and Oriental medicine, nutrition, and counseling.

History

Bastyr University was established in 1978 as the John Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine in Seattle, Washington, by Sheila Quinn, Joseph E. Pizzorno Jr., William A. Mitchell, Jr., and Les Griffith. It is named after John Bastyr, a pioneering naturopathic physician and chiropractor in the Seattle area who was instrumental in keeping interest in naturopathic medicine alive through the 1960s. It has offered baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degree programs since 1989.

In 1984, the school was renamed Bastyr College, and in 1994, it became Bastyr University. In 1996, Bastyr relocated to its current location in the Saint Thomas Center, a former Catholic seminary building in the Inglewood-Finn Hill neighborhood of Kenmore, Washington. Its campus is almost completely surrounded by Saint Edward State Park's dense fir and hemlock forest. In November, 2005, the university completed the purchase of this property, which it had been leasing from the Archdiocese of Seattle.

In 1994, Bastyr was awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine, becoming the first natural medicine institution to receive an NIH grant. In 1999, Jane Guiltinan, dean of clinical affairs, was appointed to the board of Harborview Medical Center, becoming the first naturopathic doctor to serve on a public hospital board in the United States. In 2010, Bastyr received a $4.52 million NIH grant to study the healing effects of Asian medicinal mushrooms on breast and prostate cancer in partnership with the University of Washington. The same year, Bastyr merged with Seattle Midwifery School and established the nation's first regionally accredited and articulated direct-entry Master of Science in Midwifery degree.

Bastyr University Medicinal Herb Garden

Bastyr University courtyard - resident turtles

Medicinal herb garden

Academic programs

Bastyr offers bachelor's completion, master's, combined undergraduate/masters, doctoral, and certificate programs.

Doctoral programs

• Naturopathic Medicine - Curriculum and clinical experience trains graduates to become primary health care practitioners who emphasize the body’s natural healing abilities.

Master's programs

• Acupuncture - Provides coursework and clinical training necessary to become a licensed acupuncturist in private practice or integrative medicine settings.
• Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine - Same as master’s in acupuncture, with additional coursework in Chinese herbal medicine and Chinese medical language.
• Ayurvedic Sciences - Prepares students to practice ayurvedic medicine, a holistic Indian medicine that incorporates nutritional counseling, herbal medicine, massage and other forms of bodywork. (Program began in fall 2013.)
• Counseling Psychology - Focuses on whole-person mental health counseling to address body, mind, and spirit. Prepares graduates to become eligible for licensure as mental health counselors.
• Midwifery - Offers clinical training to prepare students to directly manage the care of normal healthy women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
• Nutrition - Curriculum combines the science of nutrition with a broader view of wellness, community, and the environment. The program is available as a research track or with a didactic program in dietetics option designed to prepare students to become dietetic interns.
• Nutrition and Clinical Health Psychology - Focuses on the relationship between nutrition and mental health; designed to lead to licensure as a mental health counselor and certified nutritionist.

Undergraduate programs

The Bachelor of Science degree completion programs require an average of two years' undergraduate coursework at another institution before transferring to Bastyr.

• Exercise Science and Wellness - Combines a foundation in exercise physiology with a holistic nutrition and wellness component.
• Health Psychology - A comprehensive health psychology education with a focus on the relationship between physical health and spirituality.
• Herbal Sciences - A curriculum rooted in hands-on training in the botanical medicine lab and garden designed to prepare students to grow, prepare, evaluate, and maintain quality control of herbs.
• Integrated Human Biology - Connects concepts from physiology, anatomy, cell biology, biochemistry, and genetics.
• Nutrition - Encompasses a “whole-food” approach – a study of food in its entirety, its individual components and how it affects the human body. (The didactic program in dietetics option is designed to prepare students to become dietetic interns).
• Nutrition and Culinary Arts - The study of nutrition and food science with a full spectrum of culinary skills development and an understanding of the therapeutic aspects of food.
• Nutrition and Exercise Science - Integrates a whole-food philosophy with exercise physiology.

Combined bachelor's/master's programs

• Acupuncture or Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine - Integrates traditional Chinese medicine with the study of modern health sciences.
• Midwifery - Offers clinical training to prepare students to directly manage the care of normal healthy women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Certificate programs

• Chinese Herbal Medicine - Postgraduate program for licensed acupuncturists focuses on using herbs to heal patients and maintain whole-body health.
• Holistic Landscape Design - Promotes sustainable design and ecology for the benefit of people and the planet; for those who wish to work in the areas of cultivation and sustainable landscaping.

Continuing education

Bastyr also offers many non-degree continuing education courses. The Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations offers courses for birth doulas, postpartum doulas, and lactation and childbirth educators.

Facilities

Bastyr's main campus sits on 51 acres of forests and athletic fields near Lake Washington. The Saint Edward State Park forest surrounds it on three sides. On December 14, 2009, the Kenmore City Council unanimously approved Bastyr University’s Master Plan, following months of review by the city's Planning Commission and City Council. The plan was bolstered by Bastyr's offer to lease on-campus athletic fields for public use and community scheduling.

Student Village

Bastyr's Student Village consists of 11 cottage-style buildings that include single-suite rooms with private baths, and shared kitchens, lounges, and study rooms. The village is designed to blend into the campus's natural setting and was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification, among other green awards, for its environmentally friendly design and energy efficiency.

Chapel

The campus includes a secular European-style chapel used for choral performances, weddings, special events, and conferences. Built in the 1950s when the building was used for a seminary, the chapel includes hand-carved oak paneling, marble columns, terrazzo floors and glass mosaic artwork. The chapel features unusual near-perfect acoustics that attract frequent recording sessions for Hollywood films. Scores for "Brokeback Mountain," "About Schmidt," "Mr. Holland's Opus," "Mirror Mirror," and other films (and, more recently, video games) have been recorded in the chapel. Musician Dave Matthews used it to record the orchestral track for one of his albums. The Seattle Times reported that the acoustics were a deliberate focus on the first major assignment of a new architect in the late 1950s.

Library

The library has a collection of 19,000 volumes of materials on alternative and conventional medicine. In addition, the library has a collection of 250 alternative and complementary medicine journals, as well as audiotaped and videotaped lectures, and extensive medical databases and online resources.

Cafeteria

The popular Bastyr University Dining Commons offers meals that reflect the university's whole-food nutrition philosophy, which emphasizes eating a variety of plant-based foods in unprocessed forms. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free entrees, a salad bar, a sandwich station, handmade soups, a variety of baked goods and espresso drinks are prepared by a professional staff and culinary and nutrition students. Veteran Seattle chef Jim Watkins became director of food services in early 2011, introducing a daily, responsibly sourced meat option to the longtime-vegetarian cafeteria. Watkins' leadership and the dining commons have been featured in The Seattle Times, Edible Seattle, and U.S. News & World Report.

California campus

Bastyr University California opened in San Diego in September 2012. The campus offers the Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine program, the University's largest program in Kenmore, and expects to add more programs in the coming years. The campus also offers birth professions training through Bastyr's Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations. Bastyr University California became the state's only accredited naturopathic medicine institution when it secured regional and professional accreditation in February 2012.

Campus Facilities

The San Diego campus is located on Sorrento Valley Boulevard, near many life sciences companies and institutions and within four miles of Torrey Pines State Beach and Torrey Pines State Reserve. The campus is also near the Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, a protected area with a variety of rare and endangered plants and animals. Campus buildings include classrooms, laboratories, clinical examination rooms, a nutrition kitchen, hydrotherapy and sauna facilities, study areas, and a library. Students also have lending privileges at the nearby University of California, San Diego Biomedical Library and full access to the digital resources and library staff at Bastyr University in Kenmore.

Bastyr University Clinic

The campus includes the Bastyr University Clinic, a naturopathic health clinic staffed by Bastyr medical faculty. The clinic offers training for students and primary family care for patients.

Research programs

Bastyr's research programs focus on advancing knowledge of health and human systems and bringing scientific rigor to traditional healing practices.

Tierney Basic Sciences Research Laboratory

The 2,500-square-foot Tierney Basic Sciences Research Laboratory was the first research laboratory at a natural health university when it opened in 2000. Faculty and students conduct analytical chemistry, immunology, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, and microbiology experiments in the laboratory.

In addition to standard tissue culture facilities, the laboratory contains a four-channel flow cytometer, thermocycler, UV/vis and fluorescent plate readers, a fluorescent microscope with digital camera, a CCD imaging system, and various HPLC, FPLC, and GC instruments including an HPLC with a coularray detector. A Biosafety Level (BL)-2/3 laboratory is also housed within the Tierney Research lab and can be used for experiments involving samples infected with HIV and other infectious agents.

Clinical research

Researchers conduct clinical research through the Clinical Research Center, a staffed and equipped medical research facility. The center relies on the help of members of the general public who wish to participate in ongoing clinical studies. The center currently conducts integrative neurology research to apply naturopathic principles of health to the central nervous system. Neurology researchers place an emphasis on translational medicine, or taking what has been learned in labs and epidemiological studies and applying it to clinical care. The center also focuses on detoxification, studying whether therapies such as sauna treatments can help cleanse the body of toxic environmental chemicals.

Oncology research

The Bastyr Integrative Oncology Research Center (BIORC), located at the Clinical Research Center, conducts studies of integrative care for breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other cancers. BIORC provides research participants (who may be at any stage in their cancer treatment and recovery) with naturopathic care, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine treatments, mind-body therapies, and nutritional guidance. In the BIORC outcomes study, researchers evaluate the rates of disease-free survival and quality-of-life indicators in participants treated at the center. In a breast cancer outcomes study, participants are compared with other cancer patients living in the state of Washington who do not receive complementary, alternative or integrative therapies. This study is funded by a $3.1 million grant awarded in 2010 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), part of the National Institutes of Health. Much of BIORC's work is conducted in partnership with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, including the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Research training

Bastyr trains future researchers through the Center for Student Research, which supports, funds, and provides faculty mentorship for student projects.

Accreditation

Bastyr University is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), (an institutional accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education). The Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine program is accredited by the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME), a specialized accrediting board recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

The Master of Science in Acupuncture (MSA), the Master of Science in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (MSAOM), and the Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) all are accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM).

The Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics, the accrediting agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, has accredited Bastyr's Bachelor of Science with a Major in Nutrition with Didactic Program in Dietetics, Master of Science in Nutrition with Didactic Program in Dietetics, and Dietetic Internship.

Bastyr University has received approval from the state of Washington as a recognized midwifery training facility and provides education for midwifery students in the articulated Bachelor/Master of Science in Midwifery degree. Both programs are accredited through the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council.

Bastyr University is approved by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to accept and enroll foreign non-immigrant students. The university is a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Medical Colleges and Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

External links

• Bastyr University
• City of Kenmore - Bastyr University Master Plan
• Bastyr Center for Natural Health
• Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges