She is a member of both the American and the Washington Associations of Naturopathic Physicians. She was brought up in Massachusetts where she completed her undergraduate degree at Smith College with a Major in Classical Studies and Minor in Chemistry while on the Pre-Med Track. As an undergraduate student, her passion for medicine led her to many opportunities including: studying anatomy at John Hopkins Medical School, summer medical internships in Boston at the Department of Teratology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at the Department of Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and in Chennai, India at Gremaltes Hospital. She then traveled across the United States in her pursuit of finding the best way of combining the art and science of medicine. She graduated from Bastyr University in Washington with a degree in Naturopathic Medicine. After graduating, Dr. Russell was the Intern Naturopathic Doctor at Bothell N