- Dr. Jum Funk
Dr. Jum Funk, ND, MPH obtained her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University. Prior to naturopathic medical school, Dr. Funk worked extensively with the HIV/AIDS community as an Americorps volunteer in both the public and private sector. Shortly after, she received her Masters in Public Health with a focus on community health intervention and prevention, often collaborating with non-profit organizations specializing in diabetes care and STD policy and counseling. Dr. Funk has worked alongside MDs, NDs, ARNPs, nutritionists and public health specialists in both the research and clinical practice setting. She is utterly excited to be working with an excellent team of practitioners at Bellingham Natural Family Medicine.
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In 2008, her passion for public health education, international medical volunteer work, and environmental stewardship was the impetus for her 13th month-long internship on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua. Dr. Funk worked with Natural Doctors International (NDI) to provide medical care to people of all ages and walks of life, for both acute and chronic health conditions. In addition to working full-time at Moyogalpa Hospital on Ometepe, she also taught NDI Global Health Courses to medical students and developed a women’s health program entitled DIOSA, or “Goddess”, which provided Ometepe women with state of the art gynecological care and whose aim was to empower women to take charge of their bodies and health choices. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Dr. Funk has traveled extensively throughout Central and South America and participated in medical volunteer internships in Belize and Peruvian Amazon as well.
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Besides providing more mainstream naturopathic therapies, Dr. Funk has extra medical training in biotherapeutic drainage, travel medicine, tropical medicine, breastfeeding & lactation management, Mayan abdominal massage, and whole foods cooking. Though Dr. Funk considers herself a family practice doctor who works with patients of all ages and gender, she is especially passionate about womens health and pediatric care (particularly autism and developmental disorders) and clinical nutrition.
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On her free time, you can find Dr. Funk concocting yet another delicious gourmet meal, writing, snowboarding, rock-climbing, planning her next travel adventure with her husband, sipping a yummy cup of chai, or indulging in Mother Nature’s playground with her two Rhodesian Ridgebacks named Juba & JoJo.
Dr. Funk n' JoJo snowshoeing!
