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Dr. Gary Ferguson serves as the Chief Health Administrator and Director of Integrative Medicine for the Tulalip Health System. Formally trained as a Naturopathic Physician, Dr. Ferguson has spent the majority of his career in Tribal health serving Native People. He possesses a deep passion for wellness-based, culturally connected, and population health approaches to achieving community well-being and reclaiming Indigenous ways of healing.
Dr. Ferguson is Unangax^ (Aleut), an enrolled member of the Qagan Tayagungin Tribe, and is originally from the Shumagin Islands community of Sand Point, Alaska. As a regular speaker and teacher, he actively promotes the use of traditional plants as both food and medicine. He is also the co-creator of the Store Outside Your Door initiative, a program that teaches communities how to hunt, fish, gather, and grow traditional foods.
Before joining the Tulalip Health System, Dr. Ferguson served as a Research Assistant Professor and Director of Outreach & Engagement at Washington State University's Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), where he worked to address health equity in Native communities. His extensive leadership history in Tribal and community health also includes serving as the Chief Executive Officer at the Rural Alaska Community Action Program, working as the Wellness & Prevention Director and Senior Director of Community Health Services at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and providing clinical services to his home region at Eastern Aleutian Tribes.