06.20.11
Jeffrey Bland, PhD, FACN, FACB, chief science officer of Metagenics, San Clemente, CA, has received the Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award at The Institute for Functional Medicine’s 2011 International Symposium in April. He and his wife, Susan Bland, founded the institute 20 years ago. Dr. Bland has devoted his life to helping people realize optimal health by addressing the causes of impaired metabolism and physiology, and then applying individualized responses. He has inspired many with his groundbreaking work in the fields of nutrition and nutrigenomics. With a PhD in biochemistry, Dr. Bland became a prominent educator for the natural foods industry, served as president of the Northwest Academy of Preventive Medicine, and helped establish Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences in the Northwest. In 1981 he was invited by two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling to become the director of Nutritional Supplement Analysis at the Linus Pauling Institute in Palo Alto, CA. In 1984 he introduced the concept of using foods to create biochemical change, and started HealthComm, Inc. to educate physicians and other licensed healthcare providers. Jeffrey and his wife Susan established The Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991 to educate clinicians about functional medicine. In 1993, he established the Natural Products Quality Assurance Alliance to develop the quality assurance document for the industry.