The year 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the North American Society of Homeopaths. As NASH enters the third decade of its existence, we celebrate our over two hundred year old profession of “non-physician homeopaths” or “professional homeopaths” – the largest homeopathic practitioner group in North America.

On our 20th birthday we have much to celebrate:

• We look forward to the first Joint NUPATH-NASH conference October 16/17 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Toronto, Canada.
• We welcome the collaboration of homeopathic organizations of North America in a joint voluntary effort to establish common standards and competencies for our profession. We are participating in the 2010 North American Standards and Competencies Summit in Toronto this October scheduled two days before the joint conference.
• We introduce to the first NASH web-based Annual Membership Meeting on September 14th, 2010. The time of the meeting will be announced. We invite all NASH members to this important event, not only the Registered Homeopaths.
• We will proudly present Volume 16 of our annual Journal, The American Homeopath, continuing a long and lasting legacy of publishing a scholarly journal dedicated to the homeopathic profession.
• We honor NASH member and president of the National Center for Homeopathy Nancy Gahles for her diligent efforts on behalf of our profession. We thank her for successful efforts to include language in the Health Reform Act of 2010 that specifically cites “integrative practitioners,” which includes all homeopaths.
• We welcome our new bi-national liaison Allyson Burden, RSHom(NA) of British Colombia on the NASH board of directors.
• We recognized Miranda Castro, former president of NASH, in a special ceremony held at the Fifth Annual Joint American Conference in Washington, DC, and awarded her a life-time membership of NASH for the countless hours of dedicated service to our organization.
• We are happy to report about several of our member’s effort to introduce health freedom bills in their states. Health freedom laws in seven U.S. states are creating a safe practice environment for non-physician homeopaths and other self-regulated healing professions.
• We congratulate NASH member Vega Rozenberg and Dr. Todd Hoover in the State of Arizona for collaborating in introducing new legislation that would allow certified practitioners of Hahnemannian principles to use the name “homeopath” and hope that these efforts will pay off in the future.
• We were honored by the recent invitation by the Liga Medicorum Homeopatica Internationalis to attend the Congress in Redondo Beach, California in May this year, featuring five-day presentations by world-renowned speakers.

As we look towards the next twenty years of NASH we predict continued growth of our membership. The North American homeopathic community will continue to thrive as we make a concerted effort towards protecting the common right of all non-physician homeopaths to practice their healing art, “from hereon after”* (*King Henry’s Charter of 1541).

We finally would also like to honor all our volunteers on the NASH Board and in our committees for their dedication to service on behalf of the entire homeopathic profession.

Manfred Mueller, RSHom(NA), CCH,
President,
North American Society of Homeopaths