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Gantzer, Jennifer

Jennifer Gantzer, DC, MS, FACN, DipACBN, DipACLM

Assistant Professor, Clinical Sciences – Florida

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Dr. Gantzer is a Chiropractic Physician teaching and practicing in Florida. She is an alumna and Assistant Professor in the Clinical Sciences Department of her alma mater at National University of Health Sciences-Florida site, and manages functional medicine patients in the University’s faculty clinic.

She has earned two post-doctoral diplomates (dually), is board-certified in Clinical Nutrition as well as Lifestyle Medicine, and has completed a Master of Nutrition. She is a candidate for the Institute of Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner 2025 board exam, earning her third post-doctoral diplomate as she furthers her expertise in both applying and teaching functional medicine.

At the University, she teaches Thoracic Manipulation, Evidence-based Practice Critical Appraisal of the Biomedical Literature, Nutritional Biochemistry, and Human Nutrition and Metabolism from the basic sciences, as well as Lab Diagnosis, Gastrointestinal Genitourinary Differential Diagnosis and Management of the Abdomen and Pelvis, Nutritional Therapies of Functional Medicine and Women’s Health from the clinical sciences. With a passion and expertise in functional integrative medicine, she emphasizes root-cause systems-biology medicine with an evidence-based approach. She thrives on content writing and developing course outlines with true authenticity of all the material and evidence-based foundations.

She authors and peer-reviews several journals and regularly authors for the National Nutrition Standard newsletter. Additionally, she has been a guest speaker for a nutraceutical company and medical expert alongside educational content development for an at-home medical device fertility tracker. She is the Chair of the Exam Committee for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. Locally, she is the Past President, also current Secretary and Director of Membership for the Pinellas County Chiropractic Society, and board member since 2016 serving to ensure and protect Florida’s chiropractic scope of practice.

Before entering academics as faculty, Dr. Gantzer had a successful practice working in a shared facility two days in St. Petersburg, Fla. and 2 days with an orthopedic surgeon in Tampa, Fla. and spent one year as a chiropractic associate working for two chiropractors over three offices in the Netherlands.

Faculty Info

  • Assistant Professor, Clinical Sciences - Florida
  • DC, National University of Health Sciences, 2014
    DipACBN, Diplomate American Clinical Board of Nutrition, 2016
    Acupuncture Licensed, 2019
    MS in Nutrition, University of Bridgeport, 2020
    FACN, Fellow, American College of Nutrition, 2020
    DipACLM, Diplomate American College of Lifestyle Medicine, 2023
    IFMCP Candidate, Institute of Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner, 2025