Marc Micozzi

Marc Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., (born October 27, 1953) is a physician specializing in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), a medical anthropologist and an epidemiologist.[1][2][3][4]

Micozzi served as a researcher and physician for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Walter Reed Medical Center; and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.[1][2][5] He also is an adjunct professor for the Department of Pharmacology at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.[6]

Micozzi was the founding editor-in-chief of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy, CAM’s first scholarly journal.[4] He also organized and edited the first US textbook in his field, Fundamentals of Complementary & Alternative Medicine, which was published in 1996.[4][7] The fourth edition of the textbook was published in 2011.[4][7]

Early life and education

Micozzi attained his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.[5][8] He completed his residency in anatomic pathology at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983.[5][8] Micozzi then completed a fellowship in Forensic Pathology at the University of Miami in 1984.[5][8] Dr. Micozzi also received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.[5][8]

In 1986, Micozzi was appointed as associate director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and founding director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine.[4]

Micozzi founded the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine located in Bethesda, Maryland and served there from 2002-2005.[4] He also served as the founding director at the Thomas Jefferson University’s Center for Integrative Medicine in Philadelphia.[4]

Publications

Books

Selected research and articles

References

  1. 1 2 "Door To The Mind With Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD". KDCL Media. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Alternative And Complementary Medicine". Healthy.net. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  3. "Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD". SKINmed Journal. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Learning from the Past, Creating a Vision for the Future". Health Insights Today. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Complementary and Alternative Medicine". My Health Alberta. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  6. Duggan, Paul (12 February 2011). "Lobbyist's death ruled accidental". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 4th Edition". Elsevier. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Complementary and Alternative Medicine". Group Health. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

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