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Rt. Hon. Lord Colwyn CBE, BDS, LDS, RCS is President of the
Parliamentary Group for Alternative and Complementary Medicine and President of the
Natural Medicines Society
Richard Blackwell is Principal of the
Northern College of Acupuncture, also based in York. He has worked for the Foundation for
Research into Traditional Chinese Medicine as its first Research Director 1992 to 1993 and since then
has been a consultant and advisor.
Jennifer
Dale is an acupuncturist with the British Acupuncture Council and a member of the
Management Committee of the Acupuncture Research Resources Centre.
Dr.
Mike Fitter (Chair of the Trustees) was Research Director of the Foundation from 1993
to 1997 and Research Director for the MSc in Acupuncture at the Northern College of
Acupuncture from 1997 to 2002. He is a Chartered Psychologist and worked for the Medical
Research Council for 19 years. He currently works as an organisational consultant for the
NHS and other organisations in Sheffield.
Mark
Tempest is a solicitor based in York with a speciality in medical litigation.
Professor
Sonia Williams MBE is Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds with a
professional background that includes dentistry and nutrition. She also works as
a consultant supporting the research agenda of the Northern College of
Acupuncture.
Sato Liu is Projects Manager
for the League of Friends of the
Royal
London
Homoeopathic
Hospital
. For many years she was Executive
Director of the Natural Medicines Society - the largest consumer group that represented
users of complementary medicine in the UK. She chaired the Trustees of the Foundation for
Research into Traditional Chinese Medicine for five years from 1997 to 2002.
Kate Thomas is Professor of
Complementary Medicine Research based at the School of Healthcare, University of
Leeds. She has been a key collaborator with the Foundation on the Adverse Events
Projects as well as the Low Back Pain Project.
Scientific Advisors
Dr Stephen Birch is a practising acupuncturist based in Amsterdam
where he heads the Stichting (Foundation) for Traditional East Asian Medicine, an
independent institute with a focus on acupuncture research.
Professor Roy Carr Hill
is based at the Centre for
Health Economics, University of York, and is also an expert advisor to the UK Clearing House on
Health Outcomes at Leeds.
Dr. Peter Davies is Head of the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster and a Trustee of the Research Council for
Complementary Medicine.
Dr. Kim Jobst is a Consultant
Physician at the Nuffield Hospital Hereford, Visiting Professor of Complementary Medicine
at Oxford Brookes University, and editor of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary
Medicine.
Dr. Julian Kenyon is Medical Director of the Dove
Clinic for Integrated Medicine, near Winchester, Hampshire, as well as
Founder/President of the British Society for Integrated Medicine.
Professor heads the Complementary and Integrated Medical Research Unit the University of
Southampton where he is also a Consultant Physician. He is a Visiting Professor
at the University
of Westminster.
Dr. David Reilly is a clinician and researcher who is Lead
Consultant at the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital and consultant to Harvard Medical School.
Dr Hugh MacPherson is Research Director of
the Foundation for Research into Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Senior Research Fellow at the
Department of Health Sciences, University of York. For his home page see www.hughmacpherson.com. E-mail
hugh(at)frtcm.org.uk
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