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Advisory Council Welcomes Six New Members

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):

Timothy C. Birdsall, N.D., F.A.B.N.O., is vice president for integrative medicine at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), Zion, Illinois, and a naturopathic medicine practitioner at the CTCA's Midwestern Regional Medical Center. His research focuses on micronutrients as adjuncts to cancer chemotherapy and the role of melatonin in the treatment of lung cancer.

Boyd W. Bowden, II, D.O., is a member of the orthopedics staff at Doctors Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, and at Orthopedic and Neurological Consultants, Inc., Columbus. He has been associate professor for orthopedic surgery at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, and a physician consultant in the Columbus public schools.

Gert Bronfort, D.C., Ph.D., is a research professor and associate vice president of research at Northwestern Health Sciences University, Bloomington, Minnesota, and senior clinical researcher at that university's Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies. His current research focuses on chiropractic care for low-back and neck pain and massage for tension-type headache.

Lupo T. Carlota, M.D., Dip. Ac., is president and founder of the Medical Acupuncture Research Institute of America, Memphis, Tennessee, and chairman of the American Board of Acupuncture Medicine. Among his research interests, Dr. Carlota developed the Meridian Regulatory Acupuncture (MRA®) System of Therapy and the Quantum Theory of Acupuncture.

Shin Lin, Ph.D., holds professorships in developmental and cell biology, physiology and biophysics, and biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He is also on the faculty and advisory board of UCI's Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Lin is founder of the International Alliance for Mind-Body Signaling and Energy Research, and also studies natural products in relation to the cytoskeleton and cellular movements.

Herman A. Taylor, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., is professor of medicine and attending physician in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, where he also holds the Aaron Shirley Endowed Chair for the Study of Health Disparities. He is also clinical professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at Jackson State University and visiting professor of biology at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. Dr. Taylor has served on the NIH study section review panel for clinical and integrative cardiovascular science.

Members Dr. Herman Taylor and Dr. Margery Gass at the NACCAM meeting on February 1, 2008.
Members Dr. Herman Taylor and Dr. Margery Gass at the NACCAM meeting on February 1, 2008.

The next NACCAM meeting will be on June 6, 2008, at the Neuroscience Building in Rockville, Maryland (see nccam.nih.gov/about/advisory/naccam).