Dr.
Gordon Cragg
is currently Chief of
the Natural Products Branch
of the National Cancer
Institute, where he has
been devoting his research
to collecting, isolating
and identifying anticancer
and anti-HIV agents from
natural sources for almost
20 years. He was a past
president of the American
Society of Pharmacognosy
and received the NIH Merit
Award in 1991 for his
role in the discovery
of Taxol. He is most respected
for his life’s work
on the identification
and isolation of potential
anticancer agents from
plant and marine sources,
and has published over
100 papers related to
such interests to date.
Dr. Subhuti
Dharmananda currently
directs the Institution
of Traditional Medicine,
an educational institution
based in Portland Oregon.
Dr. Dharmananda is a respected
Oriental herbalist and
can be considered a pioneer
of traditional Asian therapies
in the West, having lectured
widely on the topic for
the past two decades.
He has written numerous
scholarly monographs on
topics related to Asian
medicines and also authored
important academic books
including prescriptions
on Silk and Paper: "The
History and Development
of Chinese Patent Medicines".
The Link: "A Detailed
Analysis of an Epidemic
Disease", "Foundations
of Chinese Herb Prescribing",
"Chinese Herbal Therapies
for Immune Disorders"
and other popular titles.
Dr.
James Duke
formerly with the US Department
of Agriculture is a renowned
senior botanist and who
is currently involved
with The Amazon Center
for Environmental Education
and Research, and the
American Botanical Council.
He has written more than
a dozen texts, including
the "Handbook of
Medicinal Herbs",
"The CRC Handbook
of Alternative Cash Crops
for the Tropics",
"Amazonian Ethno
botanical Dictionary"
and "The Green Pharmacy",
and the more recent "Amazonian
Ethno botanical Dictionary".
He has constructed powerful
databases on the ecology,
photochemistry and utility
of thousands of economic
plants. Advocating conservation
in the Amazon as well
as respect for efficacy
of herbs over molecular
drugs, Dr. Duke has been
an all-important figure
in the advancement of
alternative therapies
based on botanicals.
Kevin
Ergil
is the Director of the
School of Oriental Medicine
at Touro College in New
York City. He was the
former President of the
College of Traditional
Chinese Medicine in San
Francisco and most recently
Dean and Director of the
Pacific Institute of Oriental
Medicine as well as Director
of Research and Chair
of Acupuncture at the
New York College staff.
Kevin has been a student
of Asian medical traditions
since 1980 and is a medical
acupuncturist as well
as a licensed acupuncturist.
He currently also serves
as editor of the international
journal clinical Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine"
and is a member of the
Board of Directors of
the Society for Acupuncture
Research, and chairs two
committees of the Council
of Colleges of Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine.
Dr.
Fredi Kronenberg
is a Professor of Clinical Physiology
in Rehabilitation Medicine, and has been Director of
the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for
Complementary & Alternative Medicine at Columbia
University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as well
as directs the NIH-funded Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Research in Aging and WomenĄŻs
Health. She is the principal investigator on many
research projects, including numerous grant awards
from the National Institutes of Health. Additionally,
she was a founding editor of the Journal of
Alternative & Complementary Medicine and is on the
editorial board the Journal of Tropical and Medicinal
Plants.
Dr. Yong-Ming Li
is a pathologist as well
as TCM physician who is
currently President of
TCM Association in New
York with a deep and longtime
interest in Traditional
Chinese Medicine, herbs
and anticancer herbs in
particular. He trained
in TCM in China prior
to his PhD work in molecular
immunology at U. of Illinois.
Dr. Li has published over
100 papers and abstracts
and is the recipient of
a number of research grants
as well as patents.
Jackie
Wooton
is President and Director
of Alternative Medicine
Foundation and Director
of HerbMed, an interactive
herbal database. Over
the past 10 years, she
has worked on designing
and developing information
resources for the Office
of Alternative Medicine
of the NIH as well as
served as Informatics
Director at the R &
H Rosenthal Center for
Complementary and Alternative
Medicine of Columbia University
in New York. She was the
Executive Editor and currently
an Associate Editor of
the Journal of Alternative
and Complementary Medicine,
and has published widely
on alternative medicine
research.
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