The Research Council
for Complementary Medicine
founded 1983: registered charity no. 287382

International Advisory Board

Dr Dan Benor (US)
Psychiatrist/psychotherapist, author, broadcaster. Daniel J. Benor, M.D. is a wholistic psychiatrist. He practices psychotherapy, transactional analysis, gestalt therapy, hypnotherapy as well as other approaches. Dr. Benor has taught this spectrum of methods internationally for 15 years to people involved in wholistic, intuitive, and spiritual approaches to caring, health and personal development. He founded The Doctor-Healer Network in England and America. After 10 years in England he returned to work in Philadelphia and in Medford, New Jersey. He founded Helios: Network for Whole Person Healing, a group of health carers and alternative/ complementary therapists who give regular saminars on how to develop integrated care - including conventional medicine and psychotherapy combined with bodymind, biological energy and spiritual awareness. Dr. Benor is the author of Healing Research, Volumes I-IV and many articles on wholistic, spiritual healing. He is a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and on the advisory boards of the journals, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Subtle Energies (ISSSEEM), Frontier Sciences, on the Board of Directors of ISSSEEM, and the Advisory Council of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychotherapy (ACEP)

Professor Alan Bensoussan (Australia)
Director, CompleMED, The Centre for Complementary Medicine Research
University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797
Australia. Website: http://www.uws.edu.au/complemed

Dr Jeff Bland (US)
Institute of Functional Medicine

Lord Colwyn
President, All Party Parliamentary Group for Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

Dr Fleur Fisher
former Head of Ethics, British Medical Association, consultant in Healthcare Ethics.

Dr Stephen Fulder (Israel)
Expert on medicinal plants and indigenous medicine; author.

Dr Joerg Grunwald (Germany)
Researcher and international consultant in phytotherapy, lead author of Physicians Desk Reference Herbal Medicines.

Prof Merrijoy Kelner (Canada)
University of Toronto, medical sociologist, researcher, advisor on CAM to Federal Government. Merrijoy Kelner is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto. She is a medical sociologist who has been doing research on complementary and alternative medicine for over two decades. Since being lead author on a book about chiropractic in Canada in 1980, she has supervised numerous students doing research on complementary and alternative health and has been the principal investigator in several funded studies in this area. Recently, she was a senior editor of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenge and Change (Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000). She is also a founding member of the Advisory Group on Complementary and Alternative Health Care which advises the federal Minister of Health in Canada

Lord Kindersley
past Chairman, Smith's Charity; formerly Deputy Chairman, Lazards

Dr J Pizzorno (US)
Co-founder and past president of Bastyr University of Health Sciences

Dr David Reilly
Medical Director, Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital

Dr Andrew Weil (US)
Physician and Medical Researcher, University of Arizona

Dr Chris Williams
Medical Oncologist, researcher, Cochrane Collaboration

Prof Steve Wright
Professor of Nursing at the Faculty of Health, St Martin's College

 

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