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Board of the Institute of East-West Medicine |
 Subhuti
Dharmananda PhD
James
Duke PhD
Kevin
Ergil MA Lac
Fredi
Kronenberg PhD
Woodson
Merrell MD
Oliver
Fein MD
Dr. Subhuti Dharmananda currently
directs the Institution of Traditional Medicine, an educational
institution based in Portland Oregon. Dr. Dharmananda is a respected
Oriental herbalist and can be considered a pioneer of traditional
Asian therapies in the West, having lectured widely on the topic
for the past two decades. He has written numerous scholarly
monographs on topics related to Asian medicines and also authored
important academic books including prescriptions on Silk and
Paper: "The History and Development of Chinese Patent Medicines".
The Link: "A Detailed Analysis of an Epidemic Disease", "Foundations
of Chinese Herb Prescribing", "Chinese Herbal Therapies for
Immune Disorders" and other popular titles.
Dr. James Duke formerly with the
US Department of Agriculture is a renowned senior botanist and
who is currently involved with The Amazon Center for Environmental
Education and Research, and the American Botanical Council.
He has written more than a dozen texts, including the "Handbook
of Medicinal Herbs", "The CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops
for the Tropics", "Amazonian Ethno botanical Dictionary" and
"The Green Pharmacy", and the more recent "Amazonian Ethno botanical
Dictionary". He has constructed powerful databases on the ecology,
photochemistry and utility of thousands of economic plants.
Advocating conservation in the Amazon as well as respect for
efficacy of herbs over molecular drugs, Dr. Duke has been an
all-important figure in the advancement of alternative therapies
based on botanicals.
Kevin Ergil is the Director of the
School of Oriental Medicine at Touro College in New York City.
He was the former President of the College of Traditional Chinese
Medicine in San Francisco and most recently Dean and Director
of the Pacific Institute of Oriental Medicine as well as Director
of Research and Chair of Acupuncture at the New York College
staff. Kevin has been a student of Asian medical traditions
since 1980 and is a medical acupuncturist as well as a licensed
acupuncturist. He currently also serves as editor of the international
journal clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine" and is a
member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Acupuncture
Research, and chairs two committees of the Council of Colleges
of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Dr. Fredi Kronenberg is an Associate
Professor of Clinical Physiology in Rehabilitation Medicine
and Director of the Rosenthal Center for Alternative/Complementary
Medicine at Columbia University? College of Physicians and Surgeons
where she is principal investigator on many research projects,
including numerous grant awards from the National Institutes
of Health. Dr. Kronenberg is dedicated to educating practitioners,
researchers and the public in the field of women's health as
well as alternative medicine. She is also Senior Editor for
the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Research
on Paradigm, Practice and Policy and she has served on the ad
hoc Panel on Traditional and Ethno medicine for the NIH Office
of Alternative Medicine (OAM). She is currently an advisor to
the National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Dr. Woodson Merrell as the executive
director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing affiliated
with Beth Israel Medical Center is one of the nation's most
respected figures in complementary and alternative medicine.
He was a pioneer in alternative medicine teaching at Columbia
University where he is currently Assistant Clinical Professor.
He lectures widely on the subject of alternative therapies and
is Board member of New York State Office of Professional Medical
Conduct and (chairman) of New York State Board of Acupuncture.
Dr. Oliver Fein is Associate Dean
of Network and International Affairs at Weill Medical College
of Cornell University where he is also Associate Professor of
Medicine. He is deeply interested in medical education as well
as the importance of cross-cultural exchange and has championed
the teaching and development of complementary and alternative
medicine at Cornell since the mid-90's and is morally instrumental
in the formation of Meridian Medical as well as the Institute
of East-West Medicine.
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