New NACCAM Members Appointed
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has appointed two new members to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NACCAM):
Joan E.B. Fox, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Molecular Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute. Among Dr. Fox's research interests are the mechanisms in the body by which cardiovascular diseases develop; the effects of psychological stressors on cells; and Reiki, an energy-medicine practice that originated in Japan.
Ted J. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., L.Ac., is assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate director of the Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies at Harvard's Osher Institute. He has researched widely in the field of CAM, including on therapies from traditional Chinese medicine and on the placebo effect.
