GARY FERGUSON

Dr. Gary Ferguson, Director of Integrative Medicine

Dr. Gary Ferguson most recently served as Research Assistant Professor and Director of Outreach & Engagement at Washington State University’s Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) whose mission is to address health equity in Native communities. As a Naturopathic Physician, Dr. Ferguson has a passion for wellness-based, culturally-connected approaches to achieving community health. He is Unangax̂ (Aleut), enrolled in the Qagan Tayagungin Tribe and is originally from the Shumagin Islands community of Sand Point, Alaska. He has a deep passion for reclaiming Indigenous ways of healing, and is a regular speaker, teacher in promoting traditional plants as food & medicine. He is the co-creator of the Store Outside Your Door Initiative, which focuses on how to hunt, fish, gather and grow traditional foods. His past positions include providing clinical services to his home region at Eastern Aleutian Tribes, serving at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium as Wellness & Prevention Director and Senior Director of Community Health Services and as Chief Executive Officer at the Rural Alaska Community Action Program.