About BSEM
We are a Professional Community promoting Personalised Medicine
For over 40 years BSEM has brought Ecological principles into mainstream medicine
Who We Are
We are a growing community of doctors, allied healthcare professionals, students and researchers committed to identifying the root causes of modern disease and treating patient health safely and effectively.
Ecological Medicine addresses the interactions between the individual, their environment and their health. BSEM has made major contributions toward the integration of ecological medicine into mainstream medicine over its 40 year history.
We have grown to become the largest UK organisation of doctors and other health practitioners specialising in Ecological Medicine in the UK.
Join the BSEM community and share our clinical experience and expertise, and promote knowledge and skills for the benefit of our patients and the public.
Our Mission
As healthcare professionals face the ongoing rise and evolving patterns of disease, BSEM’s mission has never been more critical: to educate and empower the next generation of practitioners to address these challenges.
By creating a supportive community for doctors and other health professionals who use the principles of Ecological Medicine in their practices.
By providing regular training events and courses to educate and inform doctors and other health professionals.
By promoting research into the field of Ecological Medicine for the benefit of our patients and the public
By raising awareness of Ecological Medicine and
educating the public.
Our History
Established in 1983, BSEM has been at the forefront of research into Ecological Medicine for over 40 years.
BSEM Scientific Conference - Unravelling Brain Health. Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers, clinicians, and thought leaders in the field of brain health. Examining the transformative potential of nutritional and metabolic interventions in improving the outcomes of mental health conditions and neurodegenerative diseases.
2024
BSEM celebrates 40 years of environmental medicine! Our membership levels are higher than ever!
2023
BSEM's Mould and Mycotoxins Conference gathers international experts to review the latest findings and research
2022
BSEM's Metabolic Health Event covers topics including Alzheimer's disease, cancer and cardio-vascular disease.
2022
5G and Health - BSEM gathers together top researchers and speakers in the field to present the evidence and learn how to help heal your patients.
2020
A landmark conference examining the systemic effects of exposure to metals, including allergic and toxic effects.
2018
BSEM partners with the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine to offer post-graduate training to support our members' knowledge and understanding of applying nutritional and environmental medicine into every day practice.
2017
BSEM explores diseases of the metabolism with its Conference Reversing Obesity and Type 2 diabetes: Failing with Diet and Succeeding with Fasting.
2017
BSEM's ground breaking conference Sugar: the Brain, the Microbiome and Cancer
2015
BSEM hosts the first of its conferences focusing on emerging technologies: Electromagnetic Radiation and Health, its possible adverse health effects and how risks can be managed
2014
The society’s name is changed to British Society for Ecological Medicine to reflect the wider aims of the society in addressing all of the many environmental factors that affect modern medicine.
2005
The society publishes Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Recognition and Management
1999
Society members publish Environmental Medicine in Clinical Practice, the first and still the only textbook in this field
1998
The society publishes the report Effective Allergy Practice
1995
Two societies form the British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine, publisher of the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.
1993
The British Society for Nutritional Medicine is founded to promote the use and understanding of nutrition within the context of clinical medicine.
1984
The Clinical Ecology Group of 19 doctors starts meeting in London to discuss allergy and environmental factors in illness, later the group is formalised as British Society for Clinical Ecology and around 1983 as British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine.
1979
Dr Ronald Finn, one of our founders, publishes Food Allergy - Fact or Fiction? in the Lancet - the first ever double-blind placebo-controlled food challenge trial, proving that food intolerances could cause a variety of symptoms.
1978
Dr Richard Mackarness publishes “Not All In The Mind”, the first UK book to describe food intolerances and how to combat them.
1976
Apollo 8 mission takes the first pictures of Earth from space (which forms part of our former logo), showing that we live on a small planet that we have to look after.
1968
Dr Theron Randolph publishes Human Ecology and Susceptibility to the Chemical Environment, the first ever description of sensitivity to chemicals.