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David M. Eisenberg is the director of the Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies and Bernard Osher Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. His major research interests include the evaluation of complementary and integrative medical therapies in terms of their prevalence, safety, efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and mechanisms of action. A graduate of Harvard College, where he was a John Harvard Fellow and won the Boylston Prize, Dr. Eisenberg was the first United States medical exchange student to the People's Republic of China when he went there as a National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scholar in 1979-80. He received his doctor of medicine degree from Harvard in 1981. After an internship and residency at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, he held research fellowships at the Harvard Medical School and in the divisions of Behavioral Medicine and General Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Eisenberg also is the recipient of a Paul Dudley White Memorial Fellowship, which he used for study in Taiwan, and he has made ten research field trips to China. He began teaching at the Harvard Medical School in 1986 and was named to his present chair in 2000. Last year, he became director of Harvard's Osher Institute. Dr. Eisenberg has served as an advisor to the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Federation of State Medical Boards with regard to complementary and alternative medicine research, education, and policy. He was appointed last year to an Institute of Medicine committee to explore scientific and policy implications on the use of complementary and alternative medicine by the American public. He has published more than forty scientific papers in addition to editorials and contributions to conference proceedings. He is co-author (with Thomas Lee Wright) of Encounters with Qi: Exploring Chinese Medicine (1985) and (with Edzard Ernst) of The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach, which was published in 2001 by Harcourt Ltd.
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