Congress Committees

Aviad Haramati, PhD

Organizing Committee Chair

Georgetown University, USA

David Eisenberg, MD

Scientific Review Chair

Harvard Medical School, USA

Frederick Hecht, MD

Program Committee Chair

University of California - San Francisco, USA

Ben Kligler, MD, MPH

Consortium Chair

Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, USA

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN

Fundraising  Committee Chair

Center for Spirituality and Healing,

University of Minnesota, USA

George Lewith, MD

2013 Congress Host

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Anne Nedrow, MD, MBA

Finance Chair

Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Janet Polli, MFA

Executive Director of the Consortium

Consortium of Academic Health Centers, USA

Robert Saper, MD, MPH

Communications Co-Chair

Boston University, USA

Robert Scholten, MS

Communications Co-Chair

The Full Yield, USA

Samantha Simmons, MPH   

Local Logistics Chair        

Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine, USA

Kate Porter

President 

Conference Solutions, USA

Frederick Hecht, MD, Chair

University of California - San Francisco, USA

Ather Ali, ND, MPH

Yale School of Medicine, USA

Rita Benn, PhD 

University of Michigan, USA

Heather Boon, PhD

University of Toronto, Canada

Dan Cherkin, PhD

Group Health Research Institute, USA

Trish Dryden, MEd, RMT 

Centennial College, Canada

Emeline Edwards, PhD

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, USA

Mary Koithan, RN, PhD

University of Arizona, USA

Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LAc

Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Barry Oken, MD

Oregon Health Sciences University, USA

Claudia Witt, MD

University Medical Center Charité, Germany

Heather Zwickey, PhD

National College of Natural Medicine, USA 

Ex Officio

Aviad Haramati, PhD

Georgetown University, USA

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN

University of Minnesota, USA

David Eisenberg, MD

Harvard Medical School, USA

Robert Saper, MD, MPH

Communications Co-Chair

Boston University, USA

Robert Scholten, MSLIS

Communications Co-Chair

The Full Yield, USA

Robert Bonakdar, MD 

Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, USA 

Monash University, Australia

Vinjar Fonnebo, MD 

University of Tromso, Norway

Darshan Mehta, MD 

Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, USA

Arti Prasad, MD 

University of New Mexico Center for Life, USA

Shirley Telles, MBBS, PhD 

Patanjali Yogpeeth,  India

Kenji Watanabe, MD, PhD

Keio University Medical School, Japan

John Weeks 

Publisher/Editor, The Integrator Blog

IntegrativePractitioner USA

Fu Yanling, PhD, OMD

Bejing University of Chinese Medicine, China

ZZ Zhao, PhD

School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Samantha Simmons, MPH

Local Site Committee Chair

Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine, USA

Loch Chandler, ND, LAc

Stuveland Center for Integrative Medicine, Providence Portland Medical Center, USA

Stephanie Cheng

Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Marilynn Considine

National College of Natural Medicine, USA

Charles Elder, MD

Kaiser Permanente, USA

Carie Faszholz, MA

University of Western States, USA

Mitch Haas, DC, MA

University of Western States, USA

Beth Heriza

Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA

Gretchen Horton

Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, USA

Anne Nedrow, MD, MBA

Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Catherine Salveson, PhD, RN, MS

Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Lauretta Young, MD

Portland State University, USA