About the Author

Marc Micozzi is a physician-anthropologist who has worked to create science-based tools for the health professions to be better informed and productively engaged in the fields of complementary and alternative (CAM) and integrative medicine. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the first U.S. journal in CAM, Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy (1994) and the first review journal in CAM, Seminars in Integrative Medicine (2002). In addition to editing this textbook through four editions, he served as series editor for Elsevier’s Medical Guides to Complementary and Alternative Medicine with 18 titles in print on a broad range of CAM therapies and therapeutic systems. In 1999, he edited Current Complementary Therapies for Current Science Press, focusing on contemporary innovations and controversies, and Physician’s Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine, for American Health Consultants. With Springer Publishers he has just published the texts CIM in Cancer Care & Prevention, and The Practice of Integrative Medicine: A Legal and Operational Guide. He organized and chaired continuing education conferences on the theory, science, and practice of CAM in 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, and 2001.

Prior to this work, Dr. Micozzi published original research on diet, nutrition, and chronic disease as a Senior Investigator in the intramural Cancer Prevention Studies program of the National Cancer Institute from 1984-1986. He continued this line of research when he was appointed Associate Director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and Director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in 1986. His early work on carotenoids (including lycopene), iron and cancer (collaborating with Nobel laureate Baruch Blumberg), anthropometric methods for time-related assessment of nutritional status, and other research made important contributions to this field. He was recognized for his work as the recipient of the John Hill Brinton Young Investigator Award at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1992, at which time he was jointly appointed as a Distinguished Scientist in the American Registry of Pathology, an affiliated, congressionally chartered research and educational organization. He edited and co-edited two comprehensive technical volumes on application of clinical trials methods to new investigations of the role of micronutrients and macronutrients in cancer. He has published 275 articles in the medical, scientific, and technical literature.

In 1995, he returned to Philadelphia to serve as Executive Director of the College of Physicians. He managed all aspects of the college’s professional and public educational programs, operations, and physical revitalization of the organization, including creation of the C. Everett Koop Community Health Information Center, which provided state-of-the-art information to consumers on health, wellness, and CAM. The White House Commission on CAM recognized this work on behalf of consumer health information in 2001.

Dr. Micozzi also actively collaborated with Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop for over 25 years with the National Museum of Health and Medicine and as a medical and scientific advisor to Dr. Koop Life Care Corporation, where he worked on new developments with the FDA regarding review of dietary supplements. Over the past several years Dr. Micozzi has developed his own formulations for dietary, herbal, and nutritional supplements for a variety of applications and has reviewed thousands of publications on hundreds of nutritional supplements and herbal remedies, including bringing to light little known herbal remedies from the Southern African continent.

In 2002, he became Founding Director of the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine in Bethesda, MD, working to educate the U.S. Congress, policymakers, the health professions, and the general public about needs and opportunities for CAM and integrative medicine. From 2003-2005, he accepted an additional interim appointment as Executive Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at Georgetown University, and a faculty member for the new CAM curricula at Drexel University in Philadelphia and at University of California School of Business at Irvine. He lectures widely in continuing medical education courses that use his basic texts. marcsmicozzi@aol.com.