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Major Contributors

Editorial Review Board

Brian M. Berman, M.D. (Chair)
Director
Laing/UMAB Center for Complementary Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

David B. Larson, M.D., M.P.H. (Cochair/Liaison with Office of Alternative Medicine)
President, National Institute for Healthcare Research Rockville, MD

Other Board Members

Claire Cassidy, Ph.D.
Research Director
Traditional Acupuncture Institute
Columbia, MD
Director, Paradigms Foundation
Bethesda, MD

Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
Consulting Professor
Community and Family Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Chapel Hill, NC

Larry Dossey, M.D.
Author and Consultant
Santa Fe, NM

James S. Gordon, M.D.
Clinical Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, DC

Gar Hildenbrand
Executive Director
Gerson Research Organization
San Diego, CA

Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
Editor
The Cancer Chronicles
New York, NY

Richard Pavek
Director
Biofield Research Institute
Sausalito, CA

John C. Reed, M.D, M.P.H.
Director
Pain and Stress Recovery Center
Phoenix, AZ

Beverly Rubik, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Frontier Sciences
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

NIH Project Officer

Jim Bryant, M.S.
Public Affairs Officer
Office of Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Science Editors
Managing Editor

James P. Swyers, M.A.
EEI (formerly Editorial Experts, Inc.)
Alexandria, VA

Associate Editor

Linda Silversmith, Ph.D.
EEI (formerly Editorial Experts, Inc.)
Alexandria, VA

Contributing Editors

Harriet Harvey
(Mind-Body Interventions, Pharmacological and Biological Treatments, Diet and Nutrition)
EEI (formerly Editorial Experts, Inc.)
Alexandria, VA

Richard Pavek
(Herbal Medicine, Part II, Appendix F)
Biofield Research Institute
Sausalito, CA

Cheryl Pellerin
(Executive Summary, Herbal Medicine)
EEI (formerly Editorial Experts, Inc.)
Alexandria, VA

Anne T. Phillips, M.L.S.
(Research Databases)
EEI (formerly Editorial Experts, Inc.)
Alexandria, VA

Editorial Assistants

Marc Ciagne (EEI)
Christine Griffin (EEI)

Other Major Contributors1

Jeanne Acterberg, Ph.D.
(Mind-Body Interventions)
Professor of Psychology
Saybrook Institute
San Francisco, CA

Michael Balick, Ph.D.
(Herbal Medicine)
Director
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY

Robert 0. Becker, M.D.
(Bioelectromagnetic Applications)
Lowville, NY

Lilian Cheung, D.Sc., R.D.
(Diet and Nutrition)
Director
The Harvard Nutrition and Fitness Project
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Effie Chow, Ph.D.
(Alternative Systems of Medical Practice)
President
East West Academy of Healing Arts
San Francisco, CA

James A. Duke, Ph.D.
(Herbal Medicine)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Beltsville, MD

David Eisenberg, M.D.
(Research Infrastructure)
Instructor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Hospital
Boston, MA

Robert G. Flower, M.S.
(Bioelectromagnetic Applications)
Applied Science Associates
Alburtis, PA

Elliott Greene, M.A.
(Manual Healing Methods)
President American Massage Therapy Association
Silver Spring, MD

Carlton F. Hazelwood, Ph.D.
(Bioelectromagnetic Applications, Peer Review)
Professor
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Carol Hegedus, M.S., M.A.
(Mind-Body Interventions)
Program Director of Institutional Relations
Fetzer Institute
Kalamazoo, MI

Marian W. Herrmann, M.A.
(Mind-Body Interventions)
Founder
Quanta Center of Learning and Development
Research Investigator
University of Louisville Medical School
Louisville, KY

L. John Hotter, M.D., Ph.D.
(Diet and Nutrition)
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
McGill University
Associate Director
McGill Nutrition and Food Science Center
Associate Physician
Royal Victoria Hospital
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tori Hudson, N.D.
(Alternative Systems of Medical Practice)
Associate Academic Dean
National College of Naturopathic Medicine
Portland, OR

Jennifer Jacobs, M.D.
(Alternative Systems of Medical Practice)
Department of Epidemiology
University of Washington
School of Public Health
Edmonds, WA

Wayne B. Jonas, M.D.
(Research Methodologies)
Training Director
Medical Research Fellowship
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC

J. Daniel Kanofsky, M.D, M.P.H.
(Diet and Nutrition)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Epidemiology and Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx Psychiatric Center
Bronx, NY

Ted Kaptchuk
(Herbal Medicine)
Research Associate
Beth Israel Hospital
Cambridge, MA

Lawrence H. Kushi, Sc.D.
(Diet and Nutrition)
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Minneapolis, MN

Dana Lawrence, D.C.
(Manual Healing Methods)
Professor
National College of Chiropractic
Department of Chiropractic Practice
Lombard, IL

Abraham R. Liboff, Ph.D.
(Bioelectromagnetic Applications)
Professor of Physics
Director of Medical Physics
Oakland University
Rochester, MI

Nancy Lonsdorf, M.D.
(Alternative Systems of Medical Practice)
Medical Director
Maharishi Ayur-Veda Medical Center
Washington, DC

Charles A. Moss, M.D.
(Alternative Systems of Medical Practice)
American Academy of Environmental Medicine
LaJolla, CA

Roger Nelson, Ph.D.
(Mind-Body Interventions)
Research Staff
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
Princeton University School of Engineering
Princeton, NJ

Paul Scharff, M.D.
(Alternative Systems of Medical Practice)
Medical Director
Rudolph Steiner Fellowship Foundation
American College of Anthroposophically Extended Medicine
Spring Valley, NY

Mildred Seelig, M.D., M.P.H.
(Diet and Nutrition)
Master of the American College of Nutrition
Editor Emeritus of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition
Atlanta, GA
Adjunct Professor of Nutrition
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Leanna Standish, N.D., Ph.D.
(Pharmacological and Biological Treatments)
Director of Research
Bastyr College of Natural Health Sciences
Seattle, WA

John Upledger, D.O.
(Manual Healing Methods)
Medical Director
The Upledger Institute
Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Jan Walleczek, Ph.D.
(Bioelectromagnetic Applications)
Staff Scientist
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Loma Linda, CA

Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H.
(Diet and Nutrition)
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA


This report was produced by EEI (formerly Editorial Experts, Inc.) under contract NIH-263-89-C-0016.


1This list includes the names of those individuals who made significant writing contributions to the report and/or were consistently involved with the report over the many months required to complete it. Many others at the Chantilly, Virginia, workshop also contributed to the initial discussions and development of broad outlines for various chapters.