Dr. Raymond Pataracchia ND founded the Naturopathic Medical Research Clinic in 2001. Dr. Pataracchia is a board certified Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine.  He has a four year honors degree in Neuroscience from Brock University and a four year post-graduate degree in Naturopathic Medicine from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto.

Dr. Pataracchia has written several articles on mental health and nutrition and has co-authored the resource book 'The Earth's Gift to Medicine; Minerals in Health and Disease' along with Dr K-G Wenzel, a psychiatrist, and neurologist.

With 13 years of literature research on nutritional approaches to mental illness, and through several years of clinical practice, Dr. Pataracchia has developed an optimal model of wellness with a focus on the prevention and treatment of mental health through clinical nutrition.

His clinic (the N.M.R.C.) participated in an academic review on "wellness" in Canada (Jackson & Pulliam, 2002, federal report).