A nutritional biochemist and registered clinical laboratory director, Dr. Bland is a former professor of biochemistry at the University of Puget Sound, and a previous Director of Nutritional Research at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. He is one of the four original founders of Bastyr University, the first federally accredited university in the United States offering graduate and undergraduate degrees in natural medicine. With his wife, Susan Bland, MA, he founded the Institute for Functional Medicine, now a respected nonprofit organization.

 

Throughout his long career, two activities have remained constant for Dr. Bland: production of his monthly audio publication, Functional Medicine Update (FMU), and an annual one-day seminar tour. Synthesis is the exclusive distributor of these educational products, as well as numerous other materials produced by Dr. Bland.