Dr Zampieron is a licensed Naturopathic physician and 1990 alumni of Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences. Dr. Zampieron, a.k.a. ‘Dr.Z’, is a Registered and Certified Professional Member of the American Herbalist Guild. He was on the elite founding advisory board that helped firmly establish the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine as the first accredited naturopathic medical college on the US Eastern seaboard.
DrZ is currently the senior-most faculty member at the institution. He teaches and has taught many courses including botanical medicine, phyto-pharmacognosy, botanical pharmacy, urology, geriatrics, rheumatology, and history of natural medicine. His clinical emphasis and expertise is in holistic rheumatology, and he sees patients both in a private practice in Woodbury, Connecticut and at the University of Bridgeport Naturopathic clinic. He presents at international symposiums and webinars frequently in the fields of holistic rheumatology, botanical medicine and pharmacognosy and tropical ethnobotany.
Dr.Z is a botanical formulations inventor, designing herbal products for arthritis and other maladies, and acting as spokesman for companies internationally. His radio and TV career has spanned over 30 years, and he is currently heard regularly on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.org, WPKN FM Bridgeport, and WUSB FM Stony Brook. He is an international lecturer who teaches with an encyclopedic knowledge of natural medicine.
He has co-authored hundreds of articles, radio shows, magazine columns, as well as several books, including The Natural Medicine Chest; Arthritis: The Alternative Medicine, Definitive Guide (1st and 2nd editions), and was a contributing author/photographer for Cycles of Life, Herbs and Energy Techniques for the Stages of a Women’s Life; and a textbook of antiaging medicine.
He is also leads ethnobotanical tours through the New York Botanical Garden, NYC, and is group leader of www.ecotoursforcures.com, a critically acclaimed business leading adventure and ecologically based ecotours and specialty travel groups into the rainforests of Jamaica, West Indies to study with native herbalists and shaman.