Six NACCAM Members Appointed
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has appointed six new members to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NACCAM):
From bottom left to right: 1st row: Ruth Kirschstein, Margaret Chesney. 2nd row: Lori Arviso Alvord, Martin Goldrosen. 3rd row: Margery Gass, Frank Torti, Stephen Barnes. Back row: Fabio Cominelli, Sheldon Cohen. Drs. Kirschstein, Goldrosen, and Chesney are with NCCAM.
Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., is the associate dean of student affairs and multicultural affairs and an assistant professor of surgery and psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire. A member of the Navajo Tribe, Dr. Alvord has experience both in conventional Western medicine and in Navajo healing traditions and practices.
Stephen Barnes, Ph.D., is a professor in the departments of pharmacology and toxicology, biochemistry and molecular genetics, environmental health sciences, genetics, and the vision sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is also director of UAB's Center for Nutrient-Gene Interaction, associate director of the Purdue-UAB Botanicals Research Center for Age-Related Diseases, and director of the Mass Spectrometry Shared Facility at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he is also senior scientist.
Sheldon Cohen, Ph.D., is the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He is also an adjunct professor of pathology and of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a Member of the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Fabio Cominelli, M.D., Ph.D., is the David D. Stone Professor of Internal Medicine, director of the Digestive Health Center of Excellence, a professor of microbiology and immunology, and chief of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville.
Margery L.S. Gass, M.D., is a professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology and director of the University Hospital Menopause and Osteoporosis Center at the University of Cincinnati.
Frank M. Torti, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., is the Charles L. Spurr Professor of Medicine and chairman of the department of cancer biology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
More information about NACCAM is at nccam.nih.gov/about/advisory/naccam/.
