Presidents Committee
PhD
ISCMR ❘ International Society for Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research
Prof. Dr.
ISCMR ❘ International Society for Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research
Program Committee
Inaugural President (2014–2023) and now Chief Executive Officer of the World Naturopathic Federation; member of seven WHO Working Groups and speaker at major global forums on primary health care and traditional medicine. Full-time naturopathic practitioner since 2002, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine alumna and periodic faculty member. Editor-in-Chief of NDHealthFacts.org and former Editor of the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors’ Journal for thirteen years. Honoured with an Honorary ND Doctorate from CCNM (2023), AANP Naturopathic Doctor of the Year (2022) and the International Benedict Lust Award (2022); author/editor of over 20 peer-reviewed studies, 80 professional articles and several seminal books on naturopathy.
Naturopathic Doctor - PhD in Gynecology and Obstetrics from the University of São Paulo Vice-President of the World Naturopathic Federation and President of CABSIN. Board director at the China–Brazil International Cooperation Base for Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Iracema Benevides
Brazil – TCIH Coalition, Ministry of Health of Brazil
Natalia Sofia Aldana Martinez
Colombia – TCIM Americas Network- VHL TCIM Americas
Susan Wieland
USA – Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field
Adi Haramati
USA – Georgetown University
Samantha Simmons
USA – Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health
Tabatha Parker
USA – Advances in Mind Body Medicine (Editor in Chief)
African Region
Prof Matsabisa, PhD Pharmacology, directs the AMITD Platform at Univ. of the Free State and is BUCM Guest Professor. Chairs SAHPRA expert group on African Traditional Medicines; member of the cannabis advisory and WHO Afro COVID-19 Traditional Medicines panel. Patent-holder and researcher.
Ossy Kasilo
Tansania – Adjunct Professor, National Center for Naturopathic Medicine
Rose Leke
Camaron – World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa; University of Yaounde
Eastern Mediterranean Region
Arman Zargaran (b. 1985, Tehran) holds PharmD and PhD in Traditional Pharmacy. Since 2016 he’s Associate Professor and Head of History of Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Director of International Affairs. IAHP member, top 2% cited (h-index 26), 10 books, 200+ articles.
Elad Schiff
Israel – Bnai Zion Medical Center, and the Technion Faculty of Medicine
Eran Ben Arye
Israel – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Mehdi Pasalar
Iran – Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
European Region
Dr. Ines von Rosenstiel is a pediatrician and specialist in integrative medicine with expertise in oncology, lifestyle medicine, and planetary health. She integrates evidence-based conventional and complementary approaches to optimize patient care and outcomes. As a recognized speaker, educator, and researcher, she actively contributes to the advancement of integrative medicine at national and international levels
Konstantin Korotkov
Russia – Universidade ITMO
Western Pacific Region
Since 2020, Professor of Public Health & Foundation Director of the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine at Southern Cross University. Former Visiting Professor at Oxford. Holds PhD (2012), LLM, MPH. Deputy Chair of NHMRC Natural Therapies WG. >$35M research funding.
A professor of clinical epidemiology and the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. He is an advisor for traditional medicine for the World Health Organization (WHO), and is a Chang Jiang Scholar Professor (awarded by the Ministry of Education, China)
Prof. Lee is a global expert in evidence-based complementary medicine. He has held research and academic positions in the UK, China, and the U.S., including Harvard Medical School. He chairs G-I-N Asia, leads Cochrane Complementary Medicine Korea, and serves on editorial boards of over 30 SCI journals. A prolific author with 600+ SCIE publications, he ranks among the top 2% of global scientists and is one of the most published researchers in CAM worldwide.
South-East Asia Region
Angkana-Apichartvorakit
Thailand – Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
