Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience;the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge,and it has been characterized as quackery.
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston,Massachusetts. Founded in 1782,HMS is the third oldest medical school in the United States. It provides patient care,medical education,and research training through its 15 clinical affiliates and research institutes,including Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),Boston Children's Hospital,Dana–Farber Cancer Institute,Brigham and Women's Hospital,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,Mount Auburn Hospital,McLean Hospital,Cambridge Health Alliance,The Baker Center for Children and Families,Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital,and others
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is a United States government agency which explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It was created in 1991 as the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM),and renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) before receiving its current name in 2014. NCCIH is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Dry needling,also known as trigger point dry needling and intramuscular stimulation,is a treatment technique used by various healthcare practitioners,including physical therapists,physicians,and chiropractors,among others. Acupuncturists usually maintain that dry needling is adapted from acupuncture,but others consider dry needling as a variation of trigger point injections. It involves the use of either solid filiform needles or hollow-core hypodermic needles for therapy of muscle pain,including pain related to myofascial pain syndrome. Dry needling is mainly used to treat myofascial trigger points,but it is also used to target connective tissue,neural ailments,and muscular ailments. The American Physical Therapy Association defines dry needling as a technique used to treat dysfunction of skeletal muscle and connective tissue,minimize pain,and improve or regulate structural or functional damage.
Elizabeth Nabel is an American cardiologist and Executive Vice President of Strategy at ModeX Therapeutics and OPKO Health. Prior to this role,she served as President of Brigham Health and its Brigham and Women's Hospital,Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,and Director of the NIH's National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute.
JoAnn Elisabeth Manson is an American physician and professor known for her pioneering research,public leadership,and advocacy in the fields of epidemiology and women's health.
Martin (Maish) L. Yarmush is an academic,American scientist,physician,and engineer known for his work in biotechnology and bioengineering. His faculty career began in 1984 at MIT in the Department of Chemical Engineering as a Principal Research Associate and Lucille P. Markey Scholar in Biomedical Science. In 1988 he joined Rutgers University,as Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and a member of the Center of Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. In 1995,he returned to the Boston area to serve as the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology,and to establish the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Teaching Hospitals. In 2007 he returned to Rutgers to hold the Paul and Mary Monroe Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering and serve as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He also holds a Lecturer in Surgery and Bioengineering position at Harvard Medical School,and is a member of the Senior Scientific Staff at the Shriners children's hospital in Boston.
Jeffrey M. Drazen was the editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine from 2000 to 2019. He currently holds the positions of senior physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital,Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,professor of physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health,and adjunct professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from the University of Ferrara,the University of Athens,the University of Modena and the University of Paris-Sud.
Matthew H. Liang is a physician specializing in general internal medicine and rheumatology,Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School,Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health,and the Director Emeritus of Special Projects of the Robert B. Brigham Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Clinical Research Center which he founded. He is a founding faculty of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and a founding faculty of the Clinical Effectiveness Program at the Harvard School of Public Health and is a Study Director in the Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies Program.
Fu's Subcutaneous Needle (FSN),invented by Dr. Zhonghua Fu in 1996,is a method for the treatment of myofascial pain and trigger points related to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and invented by Dr. D. Simons and Dr. Janet G. Travell.
Bruce Rosen is an American physicist and radiologist and a leading expert in the area of functional neuroimaging. His research for the past 30 years has focused on the development and application of physiological and functional nuclear magnetic resonance techniques,as well as new approaches to combine functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data with information from other modalities such as positron emission tomography (PET),magnetoencephalography (MEG) and noninvasive optical imaging. The techniques his group has developed to measure physiological and metabolic changes associated with brain activation and cerebrovascular insult are used by research centers and hospitals throughout the world.
Brian M. Berman is a tenured professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Ferenc Andras Jolesz was a Hungarian-American physician and scientist best known for his research on image guided therapy,the process by which information derived from diagnostic imaging is used to improve the localization and targeting of diseased tissue to monitor and control treatment during surgical and interventional procedures. He pioneered the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging-guided interventions and introduced of a variety of new medical procedures based on novel combinations of imaging and therapy delivery.
Nina Starr Braunwald was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher who was among the first women to perform open-heart surgery. She was also the first woman to be certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery,and the first to be elected to the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. In 1960,at the age of 32,she led the operative team at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) that implanted the first successful artificial mitral human heart valve replacement,which she had designed and fabricated.
David M. Eisenberg is an American physician,alternative medicine researcher,and the Bernard Osher Distinguished Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the founder of the Osher Center for Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies,a healthcare clinic associated with Brigham and Women's Hospital,and served as its director from 2000 to 2010. He is also the founder of the "Healthy Kitchens/Healthy Lives" initiative,which,according to the New York Times,aims "to tear down the firewall between “healthy”and “crave-able”cuisine."
Simin Liu is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist. He is recognized internationally for his leadership in the research of nutrition,genetics,epidemiology,and the environmental and biological determinants of complex diseases,particularly those related to cardiometabolic health in diverse populations. His research has pioneered novel concepts,uncovered critical mechanisms and risk factors,and developed research frameworks for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. A hallmark of Liu's work is when his lab was among the first to define and quantify dietary glycemic load in humans,providing key insights into the functional role of dietary carbohydrates in the development of health outcomes. This novel nutritional concept has since become a cornerstone of clinical diabetes management,nutritional epidemiology,and dietary feeding trials in diverse populations worldwide.
Arnold Richard Kriegstein is a neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of California,San Francisco,where he served as director of the UCSF Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research from 2004 to 2021. His main research interests include neural stem cell and brain development. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Jeffrey D. Macklis is an American neuroscientist. He is the Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Center for Brain Science at Harvard University,Professor of Neurology [Neuroscience] at Harvard Medical School,and on the Executive Committee and a Member of the Principal Faculty of the Neuroscience / Nervous System Diseases Program at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Vijay K. Kuchroo is an Indian-American immunologist and serial entrepreneur. He is the Samuel L. Wasserstrom chair of Neurology at Harvard Medical School,and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also the director of the Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston,Massachusetts.
Kathryn T. Hall is a leader in placebo research,Assistant professor of medicine part-time and molecular biologist who directs research or teaches at several institutions,including the following:
