Christine Doherty is a naturopathic doctor who specializes in the natural medicine approach to gluten based conditions. Dr. Doherty is one of the international experts who contributed to the new book "Real Life with Celiac Disease" published by the American Gastroenterological Association in May 2010. She Co-authored the chapter on nutritional supplements with Melinda Dennis, RD, LDN from the Beth Israel Celiac Disease Center. Her work has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and in USA Today. She writes the Super Supplements column for Living Without Magazine and is also a sought after speaker who has lectured nationally to thousands of doctors and patients.
Dr. Doherty attended the NIH Consensus Conference on Celiac Disease in 2004 and was shocked by the statistic that half of celiacs still have multiple nutritional deficiencies ten years after going gluten free. As a result she spent five years researching and developing C-liac Vitality Packs as a practical solution to this problem.
Dr. Doherty was drawn to naturopathic medicine in the early nineties because of her own chronic health issues. She had seen physicians of all different specialties since childhood and no one could explain her chronic symptoms that included fatigue, rashes, IBS, anemia, bone pain, frequent infections and excessive bruising. She finally found the answer in 2003- Celiac Disease!
Dr. Doherty graduated with her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine in 1998 from Bastyr University in Seattle. She has been honored by two New Hampshire Governors with state appointments, first to the Advisory Council on Osteoporosis where she served from 2000-2004, then in 2008 to the New Hampshire Board of Naturopathic Examiners.
She is a medical adviser to the Southern New Hampshire Gluten Intolerance Association and to Living Without magazine.
Dr. Doherty is a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians and the New Hampshire Association of Naturopathic Doctors. Dr. Doherty has been in practice with her acupuncurist/herbalist husband, Sean, since 1999 and has been privileged to work with thousands of patients from all over the United States and from Japan, Australia, England, Denmark, Bermuda, Dubai, Canada and Nepal. She has a daughter, Celeste, born in 2001.
