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ISCMR
NEWSFLASH
1) Upcoming Events
International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care
April 22-25, 2008
For more information, please visit: www.internationalforum.bmj.com2) News 1) On
January 24, 2008, NIH Director, Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., named Josephine P.
Briggs, M.D.,
to be the director of the National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).
An accomplished researcher
and physician, Dr. Briggs brings a focus on translational research to
the study
of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to help build a fuller
understanding
of the usefulness and safety of CAM practices that nearly
two-thirds of the American public uses.
Dr.
Briggs received her A.B. cum
laude in biology from Harvard-Radcliffe
College and her M.D.
from Harvard Medical School.
She completed her residency training in internal medicine and
nephrology at the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, followed by a research fellowship in
physiology at Yale School of Medicine. She was a professor of internal medicine and
physiology
at the University
of Michigan from 1993 to
1997. From 1997 to 2006 she was director
of the Division of Kidney, Urologic,
and Hematologic Diseases in the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases.For the last year and a half she has been
senior
scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Dr.
Briggs has published more than 125 research articles and is on the editorial
boards of
numerous journals. She is an elected member of the American
Association of Physicians
and a fellow of the American Association or the
Advancement of Science. She is also a
recipient of the Volhard Prize of the
German Nephrological Society. Her research interests
include the
renin-angiotensin system, diabetic nephropathy and the effect of antioxidants
in
kidney disease.
2) Professor Nicola Robinson, an academic from Thames Valley University is
to head
up one of the UK's founding research bodies in the world of
complementary medicine.
She has been appointed Chair of the Research Council for
Complementary Medicine
(RCCM), which is in addition to her current role
as Head of the Centre for
Complementary Healthcare and Integrated
Medicine, part of the Faculty of
Health & Human Sciences at TVU.
3) Call for help
Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
As a Research Council for Complementary Medicine member I would like
to
expand my knowledge for others' best benefit. However I do know a
little
about The Open International University for Alternative
Medicines in Calcutta, India. I was wondering if you have some
reliable
and valid information regarding this Institution. I would be
very grateful for
some thoughts or comment, others' opinions.
Thank you very much in advance.
Yours sincerely
Dr Paul Posadzki
e-mail: pawel.posadzki@hotmail.com
4) Forschende Komplementarmedizin
/ Research in
Complementary Medicine 2007 New Issue online
Vol. 14, No. 6 is
now online:
http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=Ausgabe&ProduktNr=224242&Ausgabe=234157
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