Emeritus Professor Stephen P Myers PhD BMed ND FACNEM FASLM

Emeritus Professor Myers is in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University. He is one of Australia's leading academics in natural, complementary and integrative medicine. He has qualifications in naturopathy (ND), western medicine (BMed) and pharmacology (PhD). Stephen commenced lecturing in private colleges in 1984 and became Dean of Naturopathy at the NSW College of Natural Therapies in 1986. Stephen was the Head of the School of Natural and Complementary Medicine at Southern Cross University between 1995-2001, and he led the development and implementation of the Batchelor of Naturopathy program that graduated 500 Baccalaureates.

He has raised over $8 million in research funding; supervised 18 higher degree research students to completion; authored 3 books, 13 book chapters, and 145 peer-reviewed research papers; and acted as a consultant to industry, government and academia across a broad range of issues. Despite all of this, he has a delightful sense of humour, is very down to earth and is a fundamentally good man.