Board Members

The Board of Directors is a group of dedicated, passionate and unpaid volunteers who want to give something back to the profession. But first and foremost they are herbalists and naturopaths elected by the NHAA full membership to serve for a term of two years.

 

Here are the people who work for your Association.

Claudia Joy Wingo (Examiner)

Claudia Joy WingoClaudia Joy Wingo is a practicing Medical Herbalist, Naturalist, RN, Educator and has been an Examiner on the Board of the NHAA since 2009.  Currently undertaking a Master in Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University, she has always had a passion for both the science and art of plants and medicine.

Now running a herbal practice in Concord, Claudia returned last year from living in the USA where she was Clinical Chair and Director of the Student Clinic in a Master of Science in Herbal Medicine degree program at TAI Sophia Institute and adjunct faculty at University of Maryland’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine program. In addition, she was instrumental in the opening of Lifepath, an integrative medical practice as a RN, Medical Herbalist and Nutritional Consultant on the outskirts of Washington DC. While there, Claudia completed Naturalist Certification at the USDA Graduate School with a major in Natural History and Ecology. She has a keen interest in environmental health and is on the executive board of the Rachel Carson Council.

Dedicated to the practice of herbal medicine and its integration into Australian medical care, Claudia is excited about her role at NHAA and the health system as a whole.

Claudia’s long time interest in edible plants and herbalism was sparked by both her grandmother, a herbalist in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and her botanist father.

After completing her Chef’s apprenticeship in the US and Europe, she traveled to the Middle East to apprentice with a Yemenite herbalist in Israel and then on to Australia where she began formalised study and received Diplomas in Botanical Medicine, Nutrition and Therapeutic Body Work in 1980. She became an RN in 1984 after nursing training at Children’s Hospital in Camperdown. She went on to work as an RN at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and in Guatemala and Costa Rica on a TB vaccination program for DSF. She completed a Bachelor of Applied Science, Nursing at the University of Sydney in 1994 with a major in Mental Health.

A lifelong traveler, Claudia continues to indulge her love of slow food, good wine, groovy music, long botanical walks, scuba diving and the occasional (herbal) martini both here and abroad with her musician husband.

Qualifications

  • Master of Science (eq) Natural History & Ecology

  • Certified Naturalist

  • Bachelor of Applied Science, Nursing

  • Diploma of Medical Herbalism

  • Diploma of Nutrition

  • Diploma of Remedial Massage

  • Chef Certification (Commercial Cookery)

  • Ad Diploma of Catering Management

 

 

Linda Bates (Executive Director)

Linda BatesLinda Bates formalised her qualifications in Herbal Medicine by studying first with Denis Stewart and then attending classes with Dorothy Hall at her College in Rozelle, graduating in 1986. She has been a private consultant Herbalist and Nutritionist since then. Between 1992 and 2002 she lived in the upper Blue Mountains, growing her own medicinal herbs organically and manufacturing fresh plant tinctures, oils and healing creams for her clients. Here she began teaching groups of people how to understand their bodies and how use fresh plants to heal themselves.

Linda still uses traditional methods to manufacture much of her dispensary from fresh herbs grown in the mountains in a bio-dynamic garden or wildcrafted.

Growing up in England with a great grandmother who was a Herbalist, Linda learned the traditional arts of manufacturing and mixing and healing with herbs from her mother and grandmother. Her greatest passion is to teach groups of people these creative arts and to keep this knowledge alive.

For four years between 2002 and 2005 Linda taught Manufacturing and Herbal Medicine (Therapeutics) at Nature Care College, Australasian College of Natural Therapies and the NSW College of Natural Medicine. Now she mentors new practitioners and teaches privately to groups and individuals. She also runs a busy clinic in Queens Park, Sydney where she has help from 1 or 2 apprentices.

Currently she is travelling back and forth to Findhorn, in the far north of Scotland, developing her shamanic skills with Franco Santoro and designing classes to teach in the Findhorn garden.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Flinders University, S.A.
  • Diploma Herbal Medicine (Dorothy Hall College, Rozelle 1986)
  • Certificate of Nutritional Chemistry and Prescribing Methods (College of Somatic Studies 1987)
  • Certificate of Iridology (College of Somatic Studies 1987)
  • Certificates of Eastern Medical Philosophy and Alchemy (I.F.A. 1988-89)
  • Certificate of Kinesiology- levels I – 4 (A.K.A 1988–89)
  • Certificate of Bach Flower Remedies
  • Certificate of Himalayan Flower Enhancers
  • Reiki I, II and Master Level
  • Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training

 

 

Sue Giles (Executive Director)

Sue GilesSue studied at the Adelaide Training College of Complementary Medicine, where she qualified with an Advanced Diploma of Herbal Medicine and an Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy, completing her studies in 2003.

She worked briefly as an Herbalist in Pharmacy – starting the week of the Pan episode!  She is currently in private practice in Adelaide. Sue has also been involved in community education, participating in a programme initiated through community health care agencies within the Women’s Prison.  She also Co-ordinates the SA state chapter of the NHAA.

Sue has a background in nursing, having worked as a Registered Nurse for around 20 years both in Australia & overseas in a variety of settings, most recently in Paediatrics.  In her spare time she enjoys knitting, a good book and walking – but not all at once!

Qualifications

  • Advanced Diploma of Herbal Medicine
  • Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy
  • Registered Nurse
   

Stuart Glastonbury (Examiner)

Stuart GlastonburyDr Stuart Glastonbury has been an Examiner on the Board since 2005. He currently works as a medical doctor at Toowoomba base hospital as well as a complementary medicine practitioner in a private clinic in Toowoomba, Queensland.

Stuart firmly believes in the integration of traditional and scientific based healing practices and uses a combination of herbal, nutritional and orthodox medicine in his clinic. He has a strong commitment to environmental health and believes that a healthy community begins with a healthy planet.

Apart from his clinical practice Stuart has lectured and written course material for complementary colleges in Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane.

Outside of work, Stuart loves to grow medicinal herbs and spend time with his partner Jess and 4 year old son, Jarrah.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
  • Bachelor of Medical Science
  • Diploma of Western Herbal Medicine
 

Elizabeth Hammer (Coordinating Examiner)

Elizabeth HammerElizabeth has been on the NHAA Board of Directors as an Examiner since 2004 and has been Co-ordinating Examiner since 2008. She completed her Bachelor of Health Science in Complementary Medicine through Charles Sturt University in 2003 and now teaches and practices in Newcastle.

She continues her role as a registered nurse on a casual basis which ensures she remains up to date in order to teach the clinical sciences to complementary medicine students.

Elizabeth’s passion is for quality education for students of herbal medicine, which makes her role on the board as co-ordinating examiner, an ideal one.

When time permits Elizabeth loves to travel, read, play guitar (badly), and indulge her enthusiasm for good coffee and chocolate. She hopes to move to Tasmania eventually to enjoy the cooler climate and national parks. Once settled she plans to buy a cat and become the typical stereotype of a hedge witch.

For those interested she is a Virgo (and how!)

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Health Science Complementary Medicine and Nursing
  • Advanced Diploma of Western Herbal Medicine
  • Diploma of Iridology
  • Certificate IV Workplace Training and Assessment
  • Registered Nurse
   

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