page_title: Bastyr University
section_title: Selected alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Bastyr University / Selected alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Britt Marie Hermes at QED 2016 with Best Blog Ockham Award
context_page_description: Bastyr University is an American alternative medicine university with campuses in Kenmore, Washington, and San Diego. Programs include naturopathy, acupuncture, Traditional Asian medicine, nutrition, herbal medicine, ayurvedic medicine, psychology, and midwifery.
  Bastyr's programs teach and research topics that are considered pseudoscience, quackery, and fake by the scientific and medical communities. Quackwatch, a group against health fraud, put Bastyr University on its list of "questionable organizations" as a school which is "accredited but not recommended".
  Bastyr University and similar naturopathic programs are not accredited as medical schools but as special programs that are overseen by a naturopathic council which is not required to be scientific. Bastyr's naturopathic program has been accused by critics of misrepresenting its medical rigor and its ability to train primary care clinicians.
context_section_description: Peter J. D'Adamo, an author and member of Bastyr University's first graduating naturopathic class.
  Britt Marie Hermes, a 2011 graduate of the doctorate of naturopathic medicine program who went on to practice for three years in Washington and Arizona before becoming an outspoken critic of homeopathy and naturopathic medicine .
caption: Britt Marie Hermes
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