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Alex Kennerly Vasquez DC ND DO FACN (FRSM): The founding Program Director of the world's first fully-accredited university-based graduate program in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Dr Alex Vasquez is recognized internationally for his high intellectual and academic standards and for his expertise spanning and interconnecting many topics in medicine and nutrition. Dr Vasquez holds three doctoral degrees as a graduate of University of Western States (Doctor of Chiropractic, 1996), Bastyr University (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, 1999), and University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, 2010). Dr Vasquez has completed hundreds of hours of post-graduate and continuing education in subjects including Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support, Nutrition and Functional Medicine; while in the final year of medical school, Dr Vasquez completed a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr Vasquez is the author of many textbooks, including Integrative Orthopedics (2004, 2007 2012), Functional Medicine Rheumatology (Third Edition, 2014), Musculoskeletal Pain: Expanded Clinical Strategies (commissioned and published by Institute for Functional Medicine, 2008), Chiropractic and Naturopathic Mastery of Common Clinical Disorders (2009), Integrative Medicine and Functional Medicine for Chronic Hypertension (2011), Brain Inflammation in Migraine and Fibromyalgia (2016), Mitochondrial Nutrition and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Primary Care (Second Edition, 2014), Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (2014), Mastering mTOR (2015) and the 1200-page Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition (2016) also published as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine. "DrV" has also written approximately 100 letters and articles for professional magazines and medical journals such as TheLancet.com, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Nutritional Perspectives, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Original Internist, Integrative Medicine, Holistic Primary Care, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA), Dynamic Chiropractic, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Current Asthma and Allergy Reports, Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, Nature Reviews Rheumatology, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Arthritis & Rheumatism, the Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology. Dr Vasquez lectures internationally to healthcare professionals and has a consulting practice and service for doctors and patients. Having served on the Review Boards for Journal of Pain Research, Autoimmune Diseases, PLOS One, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Neuropeptides, International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Inflammation Research (all PubMed/Medline indexed), Integrated Blood Pressure Control, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, and Journal of Naturopathic Medicine and as the founding Editor of Naturopathy Digest, Dr Vasquez is currently the Editor of International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine and the Director for International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine

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Additional information and examples of work: 

• Books: https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Alex-Vasquez/e/B00AT5764Y

• Example of online course: http://www.ichnfm.org/course-microbiome-dysbiosis

• Notably awesome articles (of approximately 200 publications): 

  1. Biological plausibility of the gut-brain axis in autism. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2017  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.13516/abstract​

  2. Mitochondrial Nutrition in Primary Care" Integrative Medicine 2014: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566442/

  3. Role of Western Diet in Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases” Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 2014: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11882-014-0454-4

  4. Neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia and CRPS is multifactorial" Nature Reviews Rheumatology 2016: http://www.nature.com/nrrheum/journal/v12/n4/full/nrrheum.2016.25.html

  5. The Clinical Importance of Vitamin D (Cholecalciferol): A Paradigm Shift with Implications for All Healthcare Providers" Altern Ther Health Med 2004: http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/93e00d_e8b12c477ee34c68a057f436e5075d01.pdf 

  6. Understanding Functional Medicine by Appreciating the "Web-like Interconnections of Physiologic Factors." Integrative Medicine 2006: http://inflammationmastery.com/reprints/vasquez_2006_weblike_connections.pdf

  7. Musculoskeletal disorders and iron overload disease: Comment on the American College of Rheumatology guidelines for the initial evaluation of the adult patient with acute musculoskeletal symptoms  Arthritis Rheum, official journal of the American College of Rheumatology 1996 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/art.1780391027/pdf

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