Research Working Group

The focus of the Research Working Group (RWG) is to promote mutual understanding, collaborative activities, and interdisciplinary health care education through research. The broad priorities of the RWG are: shifting the culture at CAM institutions to better embrace research; redirecting the research agenda regarding these disciplines so that it is of greater use to the members of the professions; and building research capacity within the ACIH disciplines.

Co-Chairs

Belinda Anderson, PhD, LAc Associate Dean of Allied Health Programs in the College of Health Professions, Pace University in New York City.

Kieran Cooley, BSc, ND Director, Research; Visiting Research Fellow, ARCCIM, Faculty of Health, UTS, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine

Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine

Claudia Citkovitz, PhD, MS, LAc Director, Acupuncture Services, Lutheran Medical Center, Faculty, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Anupama Kizhakkeveettil, PhD, BAMS (Ayurveda), MAOM, LAc, CMT Program Director, Ayurveda, and Associate Professor, College of Science and Integrative Health, Southern California University

Lisa Taylor-Swanson, PhD, MAcOM, LAc Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Utah

Chiropractic

James M. Whedon, DC, MS Director of Health Services Research, Southern California University Health Sciences

Massage Therapy

Niki Munk, PhD, LMT Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indiana University

Traditional World Medicines/Emerging Professions

Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell, MA, EdM Co-Chair, Research and Publications Committee, ISMETA (the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association)

Steffany Moonaz, PhD Associate Academic Director, Integrative Health Sciences, Maryland University of Integrative Health

Founding Co-Chairs

Richard Hammerschlag, PhD Founding Co-Chair; past Dean of Research, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine; Co-founder, Society for Acupuncture Research; Fellow, The Institute for Integrative Health

Christine Goertz, DC, PhD Founding Co-Chair; Vice Chancellor for Research and Health Policy at Palmer College of Chiropractic and Chief Executive Officer of the Spine Institute for Quality (Spine IQ); Board of Governors, PCORI