Member Roster

National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NACCAM)

New, current, and retiring members of the National Advisory Council on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NACCAM) met on June 6, 2008.

Back row: Ted Kaptchuk, Herman Taylor, Fabio Cominelli, Bruce Redman, Sheldon Cohen, Stephen Ezeki-Okoye, Frank Torti.

Center row: Lupo Carlota, Danny Shen, Margery Gass, Timothy Birdsall, Stephen Barnes, Stefanie Vogel, Gert Bronfort, Boyd Bowden, Richard Niemtzow.

Bottom row: Shin Lin, Lori Arviso Alvord; Jack Killen, Josephine Briggs, and Martin Goldrosen of NCCAM; Joan Fox.

Chair

BRIGGS, Josephine P., M.D. (2009)
Director
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Members

ALVORD, Lori Arviso, M.D. (2010) Associate Dean
Office of Student Affairs and Multicultural Affairs
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery and of Psychiatry
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, New Hampshire

BARNES, Stephen, Ph.D. (2010)
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Associate Director
Purdue-UAB Botanicals Research Center for Age-Related Diseases
Director
Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

BIRDSALL, Timothy C., N.D., F.A.B.N.O. (2011)
Vice President, Integrative Medicine
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Zion, Illinois

BOWDEN II, Boyd W., D.O. (2010)
Orthopedic Surgeon
Private Practice
Columbus, Ohio

BRONFORT, Gert, D.C., Ph.D. (2011)
Research Professor
Associate Vice President of Research
Director of the Neck and Back
Research Program
Northwestern Health Sciences University
Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies
Bloomington, Minnesota

CARLOTA, Lupo T., M.D., Dip. Ac. (2011)
President and Founder
Medical Acupuncture Research Institute of America
Memphis, Tennessee

COHEN, Sheldon, Ph.D. (2010)
Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

COMINELLI, Fabio, M.D., Ph.D. (2010)
David D. Stone Professor and Director
Digestive Health Research Center and Training Program
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, Virginia

CORVERA, Silvia, M.D. (2009)
Professor Program in Molecular Medicine and
Department of Cell Biology
University of Massachusetts Medical School

FOX, Joan E., Ph.D. (2009)
Professor
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Lerner College of Medecine
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

GASS, Margery, L.S., M.D. (2010)
Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio

LIN, Shin, Ph.D. (2011)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

KAPTCHUK, Ted J., O.M.D., L.Ac. (2009)
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Osher Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

REDMAN, Bruce G., D.O. (2009)
Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan

SHEN, Danny D., Ph.D. (2009)
Professor and Chair of Pharmacy
Department of Pharmacy
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

TAYLOR, Herman A., M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A. (2011)
Professor of Medicine
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi

VOGEL, Stefanie N., Ph.D. (2008)
Professor of Microbiology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

Ex Officio Members

EZEJI-OKOYE, Stephen, M.D.
Deputy Chief of Staff
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Department of Veterans Affairs
Palo Alto, California

LEAVITT, Michael O.
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC

NIEMTZOW, Richard C., COL., M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Chief, Pain Management Clinic
Andrews Air Force Base
Clinton, Maryland

ZERHOUNI, Elias A., M.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Executive Secretary

GOLDROSEN, Martin, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
Director, Office of Scientific Review
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health

Unless otherwise noted, terms end on July 31 of the year posted next to the members' names.