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Contributor Biography
Philosopher, educator, policy leader, and executive senior editor helping articulate the heart of naturopathic medicine across scholarship, public policy, and institutional life.
Philosophy and Public Policy
Dr. Snider has devoted her career to the philosophy of naturopathic medicine and to pluralistic public policy that promotes health and choice.
She is an internationally recognized pioneer in naturopathic philosophy and integrative health care whose work moves between ideas, institutions, and public leadership.
Foundations Project
Dr. Snider leads the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project as executive and senior editor, helping shape an international textbook and symposia series devoted to codifying and advancing the scholarship and application of “the heart of naturopathic medicine.”
The project has published and disseminated dozens of free publications, hosted international retreats and symposia, and supported extensive faculty and student work.
Teaching and Scholarship
Former Associate Dean at Bastyr University, she continues as an educator in naturopathic medicine history, clinical theory, and global context.
Her work bridges scholarship, philosophy, professional formation, and the practical questions of how a healing tradition carries itself into the future.
Definition and Therapeutic Order
From 1986 to 1989, Dr. Snider helped lead the naturopathic profession in developing a unifying definition of naturopathic medicine and its principles of practice, adopted by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians and later reflected in many countries through the World Naturopathic Federation.
Building on Dr. Zeff’s Process of Healing theory, she partnered with him in 1998 to expand the Hierarchy of Therapeutics to seven levels and rename it the Therapeutic Order.
Recognition and Home
Her awards include AANP’s President’s Award, Physician of the Year, Ontario’s Physician of the Year, an Honorary Doctorate in Naturopathic Philosophy from CCNM, the William A. Mitchell Vis Award, and the NMSA Gathering Beacon Award.
Dr. Snider is a mother of four children, and lives on her homestead in North Bend, Washington with her husband Dr. Bruce Milliman. For many years, she has sponsored “The Naturopathic Revival” on their land.