BIOGRAPHY

Dr. McKay is an enthusiastic Portlander who has lived in the Multnomah Village neighborhood since 1994. She has volunteered many years in support of public schools as a PTA officer, a charter school founder, a school funding lobbyist, a Camp Fire leader, an Odyssey of the Mind Coach, and of course, an AYSO soccer mom. She currently serves in the Hillsdale Business and Professional Association, the Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce, the Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and the PSU Alumni and NCNM Alumni associations.

Dr. McKay grew up on Vashon Island, Washington, in between Seattle and Tacoma; she remembers being free to roam the countryside and beaches as far as her legs could carry her, usually accompanied by her border collie, Bonnie (the only dog who could play tetherball). Her love of nature runs deep, and after a long sojourn in smoggy Los Angeles, she is delighted to be back home in the beautiful, damp Pacific Northwest.

Dr. McKay won a National Merit Scholarship and a Chi Omega Scholarship, attending the University of Washington, Santa Monica City College, Portland State University (honors in Philosophy), and of course her alma mater, National College of Natural Medicine, a fully-accredited naturopathic medical school - the oldest and the best of the naturopathic medical schools, she insists. She is a licensed primary care physician in Oregon.

Dr. McKay authored Biomarkers of Wellness, Predictors of Longevity: The Search for Measurements of Good Health in 2005, and edited The Workers' Compensation Handbook by Gwen Hampton in 1982. She recently gave a nationwide teleseminar to physicians and pharmacists on the true effects of high-fructose corn syrup. She is a frequent community speaker on popular topics such as nutrition and healthy skin, stress management (and what happens when we don't manage stress well enough), nutritionally sound weight loss, "aging in reverse" (anti-aging), and bio-identical hormone balancing.