Dr. Nancy Scarlett has been teaching in NUNM classrooms and clinics for nearly 25 years. Her undergraduate studies were in biology and religion (not a lot of overlapping credits!) at the University of Puget Sound. She then studied bioethics on a graduate fellowship at the University of Tennessee. Searching for a profession that would pull together her interests and passions, Dr. Scarlett found a perfect fit with naturopathic medicine.
Dr. Scarlett received her Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine in 1997 and then completed two years of family practice residency. She is currently a co-attending physician on the Integrative Mental Health counseling shift–combining interests in psychotherapy skills and natural mental health support.
- Areas of interest and expertise:
- Medical Ethics and Bioethics
- Physical Diagnosis
- Urology and nephrology
- Inter-professionalism
- Mental health
- Health justice
As one of the original Vanguard faculty members of the Helfgott Research Institute, Dr. Scarlett received training in, and consequently helped to implement, evidence-based medicine into the NUNM curriculum. She was a clinical investigator in a pilot research study on interprofessional attitudes at CAM institutions.
In addition to teaching in the naturopathic program, Dr. Scarlett also teaches courses in the graduate program (integrative research and global health), classical Chinese medicine program, and undergraduate program.