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Naturopathic Doctor (ND/NMD)
A licensed naturopathic doctor (ND), or naturopathic medical doctor (NMD) where state law licenses them as physicians. They advise on botanical and natural-product study design, dosing, safety, and the honest interpretation of results, grounding the science in clinical knowledge of how these agents are actually used. Active license required.
Paid or volunteer, your choice. Every position can be filled as paid work or offered as volunteer service. If you would like to help the cause, you are welcome to volunteer your time in any capacity.
- Compensation
- Paid or volunteer
- Participant-facing
- No
- Credential required
- Yes
- Training before activation
- No
- Conflict review
- Disclosure reviewed before any appointment
- Reviewed by
- Botanical science
- Estimated future need
- As botanical studies take shape
Important boundaries
- Advisory only: does not direct medical care or make clinical decisions unless separately licensed, credentialed, and authorized.
What your application includes
- Profile & contact
- Licensed clinical credential
- Botanical & product science
- Conflict-of-interest disclosure
- Document uploads
What to have ready
A CV or résumé is part of every profile. For this role, also have:
- Active professional license
- Board certification (if applicable)
- GCP / HSP training certificate
- Publications or representative work
- Methods & instrumentation summary
What we’ll ask you
Where botanical research most often goes wrong is the science upstream of the trial. We want to see how you guard it. Everyone also answers a few shared questions on research integrity and why this work. You answer these in your private portal after verifying your email — a reviewer reads them, and they’re never scored by a machine.
- Botanical research fails when a plant is studied stripped of its real-world preparation and context. How do you guard against that, from authentication through dosing?
- Walk us through how you'd authenticate a botanical and confirm its identity, purity, and consistency before it's ever studied in people.
- Many in this field have ties to supplement or botanical companies. What are yours, and how would you keep them from coloring the science?
- What would make you advise AGAINST studying a popular botanical, even when there's public demand for it?
- How do you reason about drug-herb interactions and safety for a candidate with thin human data? (optional)
- Describe your most rigorous natural-product work — methods, instrumentation, and what made it credible. (optional)
Never upload Social Security numbers, tax or bank details, or patient records. Herbal Trials does not sell supplements, make efficacy claims, or provide medical advice, and does not endorse any substance. Candidate substances remain unverified until studied.