Understanding Research

Suzie Zick, ND, MPH

Speaker Biography:

Suzanna M. Zick, ND, MPH, is a Research Associate Professor in Family Medicine at Michigan Medicine and Nutritional Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Zick earned her Naturopathic Physician degree from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, and her Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Zick was a founding investigator of a P50 Center Grant, which focused on investigating integrative medicine and cardiovascular disease, and was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the University of Michigan in 1998. She was founding member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research and was the Research Working Co-Chair for the Academic Consortium for Integrative Health and Medicine from 2009-2012.

Dr. Zick’s research interests include the effect of natural products for cancer prevention; the use of complementary therapies including self-acupressure and whole food diets for control of cancer-related symptoms on fatigue, sleep disturbance and quality of life during cancer survivorship. She has also been part of a team examining the interrelationship between fatigue, inflammatory cytokines and brain neurochemistry as well as working to develop a mobile application and social media resources to help implement self-acupressure ‘real world’ clinical and community settings.

Dr. Zick is the course director of a NCI Education Grant to teach oncology providers evidence-based integrative oncology, allowing them to become transformative leaders for integrative oncology within their institutions and clinics. She was also the past President for the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) and currently serves as the Co-Chair of the SIO Clinical Guideline Committee.