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. 1.0 1.1 "Door To The Mind With Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD". KDCL Media. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Alternative And Complementary Medicine". Healthy.net. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  3. "Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD". SKINmed Journal. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Learning from the Past, Creating a Vision for the Future". Health Insights Today. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "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. 7.0 7.1 "Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 4th Edition". Elsevier. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Complementary and Alternative Medicine". Group Health. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

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