Biographies for 2008 Featured Speakers

 

Ted Kaptchuk
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

Ted is a pioneer in the field of East Asian Medicine.  He is also a bridge to mainstream medicine and is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  He is the chair of the Placebo & Health Network at the Program for Asian Medicine and Healing at Harvard’s Osha Institute.

Associate Director Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies

Ted Kaptchuk is one of the few individuals who manages to comfortably straddle both the alternative and conventional medical worlds. His original education took place at a school in Macao, China and he is an acknowledged scholar in East Asian medicine. He is also considered an expert in many other forms of alternative medicine. For the last ten years, his research interests have shifted to placebo studies and he has led numerous NIH-funded clinical, basic science, social science, historical, methodological and ethical investigations of placebo effects. He recently completed a four year service as an expert panelist of the FDA and is currently serving his second four year term on the National Advisory Council of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), NIH. He has authored over 100 articles in such journals as Lancet, British Medical Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Bulletin for the History of Medicine and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

 

Ted Kaptchuk is speaking on Friday and giving our Keynote on Saturday night.