North American Research Conference on Complementary & Integrative Medicine: Collaboration to Promote Scientific Discovery & Health
Fabrizio Benedetti, MD
Placebo and Nocebo Mechanisms Across Medical Conditions
Fabrizio Benedetti, MD, is Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Turin Medical School in Italy. He was consultant for the Placebo Project at the US National Institute of Health and member of the six strong Placebo Study Group of the Mind-Brain-Behavior Initiative at Harvard University. He held positions at the University of California in Los Angeles and at the University of Texas in Dallas. His current scientific interests are the placebo effect across diseases, pain in dementia, and intraoperative neurophysiology for mapping the human brain. He is author of the book Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease which is in press by Oxford University Press.Susan Folkman, PhD
Stress, Coping, and Well-Being: Integrative Medicine meets Behavioral Science
Susan Folkman, PhD, is Professor of Medicine and the Osher Foundation Distinguished Professor of Integrative Medicine at the University of California (UCSF) where, since 2001, she has been Director of the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Folkman received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979 where she remained until 1988 when she moved to UCSF. Her research program, which has been supported by grants from the NIH, has focused on stress and coping in the context of serious illness and bereavement. In 1997, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, for her contributions to coping theory and research. Dr. Folkman served as a member of the NIH/NIMH National Advisory Council, has chaired NIMH and NCCAM review committees, served on Institute of Medicine study groups, and was chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine from 2004-2007.Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD
The Role of the Human Microbiota in Health and Disease
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, PhD is Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Until 2007, She was President and Director of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD, which has been at the forefront of the genomics revolution since a landmark publication in 1995 reported on the first complete genome sequence of a free-living organism, Haemophilus influenzae. Dr. Fraser-Liggett's success with microbial genomics expanded to include work on other organisms. Dr. Fraser has authored more than 200 publications, edited three books, and served on the editorial boards of nine scientific journals. Her contributions to the fields of genomics and microbiology have been acknowledged by many agencies and professional societies and her list of awards include the E.O. Lawrence Award, the highest honor bestowed on research scientists by the Department of Energy, the Promega Biotechnology Award from the American Society of Microbiology, and the Charles Thom Award from the Society for Industrial Microbiology, has been selected as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women Circle of Excellence, and elected as a fellow to the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her PhD in Pharmacology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.Dean Jamison, PhD
Investing in Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Where the Cost Effectiveness Agenda Stands
Dean Jamison, PhD, became Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington in July 2008, where he is affiliated with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. In 2006-2008 he served as the T. & G. Angelopoulos Visiting Professor of Public Health and International Development in the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He concurrently served as a Professor in Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Before joining the UCSF and Harvard faculties, Jamison had been at University of California, Los Angeles (1988-2006) and previously at the World Bank (1976-1988). While at the World Bank he served as where he was a senior economist in the research department, division chief for education policy, and division chief for population, health and nutrition. In 1992-93 he temporarily rejoined the World Bank to serve as Director of the World Development Report Office and as lead author for the Bank’s 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health. His publications are in the areas of economic theory, public health and education. Jamison recently led the Disease Control Priorities Project, for which he was senior editor of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition, and an editor of Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, both published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Jamison studied at Stanford (A.B., Philosophy; M.S., Engineering Science) and at Harvard (Ph.D., Economics, under K.J. Arrow). In 1994 he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Jamison has served frequently on advisory groups to national and international organizations.Helene Langevin, MD
Connecting the Dots in Human Physiology: Lessons from Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Dr. Helene M. Langevin received an MD degree from McGill University, followed by a post doctoral research fellowship at the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit, Cambridge, England, residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology/Metabolism both at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. She studied acupuncture at Tristate Institute of Acupuncture and at Worsley College of Classical Chinese Acupuncture. She currently is a Research Associate Professor of Neurology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the University of Vermont and is the Principal Investigator of two NIH-funded studies investigating the role of connective tissue in chronic pain, acupuncture and manual therapies.