Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine Advancing Whole Health

Editor-in-Chief

Holger Cramer, PhD
Institute of General Practice and Interprofessional Care
University Hospital Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany
holger.cramer@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Editorial Office Coordinator

Abigail Cook Dommer
Charlottesville, VA, USA
jicm_eo@liebertpub.com

Executive Editors

Christian S. Kessler, MD, MA, MSc
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Immanuel Hospital
Berlin, Germany
 

Romy Lauche, PhD
Southern Cross University
Lismore, Australia


Scott Mist, PhD, MAcOM, MS, MA, LAc
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA
 

Thomas Ostermann, PhD
Universität Witten/Herdecke
Witten, Germany
 

Peter M. Wayne, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
 

Associate Editors' Sections

Education
Aviad Haramati, PhD
Georgetown University
Washington, DC, USA

Methodology
Wayne B. Jonas, MD 
Samueli Foundation
Alexandria, VA, USA
 

Military
Richard C. Niemtzow, MD, PhD, MPH
United States Air Force Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine Center
Joint Base Andrews, MD, USA


Creative Arts Therapies
Ping Ho, MA, MPH
UCLArts and Healing
Los Angeles, CA, USA
 

Associate Editors

Heather Boon, BScPhm, PhD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH
Helfgott Research Institute
National University of Natural Medicine
Portland, OR, USA

Claire M. Cassidy, PhD, DiplAc, LAc
Paradigms Found Consulting
Bethesda, MD, USA
 

Claudia Citkovitz, PhD, MS, LAc  
NYU Langone Medical School
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Jeff Dusek, PhD
Penny George Institute/Allina Health
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Patricia Herman, ND, PhD
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA, USA
 

Mohamed Khalil, MBBCh, MPH, MSc, MD
Public Health & Research Development Research Unit, NCCAM, MOH
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
 

Myeong Soo Lee, PhD
Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
Daejeon, South Korea

Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH
Benson-Henry Institute
Harvard Osher Center
Boston, MA, USA

David Muehsam, PhD
National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems
Bologna, Italy

Jeremy Y. Ng, MSc, PhD
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Centre for Journalology
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


Melinda Ring, MD
Northwestern Osher Center
Chicago, IL, USA
 

Michael Schneider, DC, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA


David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa         
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA


Amie Steel, PhD, MPH
Endeavour College of Natural Health
Brisbane, Australia
 

Stephanie L. Taylor, PhD, MPH
Veterans Administration
      University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
 

Kenji Watanabe, MD, PhD
Keio University
Tokyo, Japan

Gloria Yeh, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Suzanna Zick, ND, MPH
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
 

Editorial Board

Dennis Anheyer, MA, BSc
Universität Witten/Herdecke
Witten, Germany
 

Iris R. Bell, MD, PhD
The University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, AZ, USA

William Benda, MD
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL, USA
 

Stephen Birch, PhD, LicAc, MBAcC
Foundation for Traditional East Asian Medicine
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Gerard Bodeker, EdD
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Josef A. Brinckmann
Traditional Medicinals
Sebastopol, CA, USA

Daniel C.  Cherkin, PhD
Group Health Research Institute
Seattle, WA, USA

Tainya C. Clarke, PhD, MPH, MS
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Health Statistics
Hyattsville, MD, USA

Cindy Crawford, BA
Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Bethesda, MD, USA
 

Paolo Roberti di Sarsina, MD
University of Milano-Bicocca
Milan, Italy

Courtney Everson, MA, PhD
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, USA

Arthur Yin Fan, MD, PhD, LAc
McLean Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, PLC
 Vienna, VA, USA
 

Yutong Fei, MD, PhD
Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Beijing, China

Isabelle Gaboury, MSc, PhD
University of Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
 

Daniel F. Gallego-Perez, MD, DrPh
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA


Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH
Boston University
Boston, MA, USA
 
Steve Given, DAOM, LAc
American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
San Francisco, CA, USA

Michael Goldstein, PhD
University of Californa, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
 

Mitchell Haas, DC, MA
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Patrick J. Hanaway, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA

Alex Hankey, PhD, MSCI
Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana
Bengaluru, India
 

Nadine E. Ijaz, MSc, PhD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tae-Hun Kim, KMD, PhD
Kyung Hee University
Seoul, South Korea

Lixing Lao, PhD, LAc, MB 
Virginia University of Integrative Medicine
Fairfax, VA, USA
 

Shin Lin, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA, USA

Paul J. Mills, PhD
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA

Niki Munk, PhD, LMT                                                                 
Indiana University School of Health & Human Sciences
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LicAc   
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

James L. Oschman, PhD
Nature’s Own Research Association
Dover, NH, USA

Mehdi Pasalar, MD, MPH, PhD
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Shiraz, Iran

Bhushan Patwardhan, PhD
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Pune, India


Cheryl Ritenbaugh, PhD, MPH
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA

Beverly Rubik, PhD  
Institute for Frontier Science
Oakland, CA, USA
 

Michelle Sexton, ND
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA

 
Venkat Sharma, PhD
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ, USA
 

Karen J. Sherman, PhD, MPH
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Seattle, WA, USA

Pamela Snider, ND
Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Institute
Snoqualmie, WA, USA


Elizabeth Sommers, LAc, MPH, PhD
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA
 

Chris C. Streeter, MD
Boston University School of Medicine
    Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Lisa J. Taylor-Swanson, PhD, MAcOM, LAc
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Lynn Teo, MSc, MAOM, LAc
Teo Research Consulting
Portland, ME, USA

Dana Ullman, MPH
Homeopathic Educational Services
Berkeley, CA, USA
 

Ruth Westreich
The Westreich Foundation
Rancho Santa Fe, CA, USA

James Whedon, DC, MS
Southern California University of Health Sciences
Whittier, CA, USA


Leonard Wisneski, MD            
Integrative Health Policy Consortium
Georgetown University
Washington, DC, USA

 
Claudia M. Witt, MD, MBA
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland


Jacqueline C. Wootton, MEd 
Botanical & Integrative Medicine
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
 

William F. Wulsin, ND, MPH, MA, Lac
Health Development Resources
Seattle, WA, USA


Charlie C.L. Xue, BMed, PhD
RMIT University
Victoria, Australia

 
Heather L. Zwickey, PhD
National University of Natural Medicine
Portland, OR, USA
 

Editor Emeritus

John Weeks
johnweeks-integrator.com
Seattle, WA, USA
jweeks.jacm@gmail.com

Founding Editor

Kim A. Jobst, MA, DM, MRCP, MFHom, DipAc
Functional Shift Consulting Ltd
Hereford, United Kingdom