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The mission 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 ACCAHC disciplines. An early collaboration is the participation of RWG members in a steering committee on a Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA)-funded project to establish a practice-based research network to examine complementary, alternative and integrative practices.  The RWG works to clarify the components of a shared research agenda which may speak more directly to clinicians in the ACCAHC professions. The RWG led intensive ACCAHC involvement in dialogue with the leadership of the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the development of the 2011-2015 strategic plan. One outcome was increased recognition of the importance of focusing research on the impact of "disciplines" in the final plan.

Co-Chairs

  • Gregory D. Cramer, PhD, DC Professor of Anatomy and Research, Dean of Research, National University of Health Sciences
  • Martha Brown Menard, PhD, MA, CMT Principal, Sigma Applied Research; Associate Faculty, Georgetown University

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

  • Deborah Ackerman, MS, PhD Dean of Research, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
  • Belinda Anderson, PhD, LAc Academic Dean and Research Director, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, New York; Assistant Clinical Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
  • Jeannette Painovich, LAc, DAOM, MA NIH Research Fellowship, Cedars Sinai; Private Practice, Santa Monica, California

Chiropractic

  • Mitchell Haas, DC, MA Professor and Dean of Research, University of Western States
  • Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD, CHES Director of Clinical Research at Logan College of Chiropractic; Editor-in-Chief, Topics in Integrative Health
  • William Meeker, DC, MPH President, Palmer College-West Campus

Massage Therapy

  • Jerrilyn Cambron, LMT, DC, MPH, PhD Professor, Department of Research, National University of Health Sciences
  • Cynthia Price, PhD, LMP Research Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington School of Nursing

Naturopathic Medicine

  • Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH Clinical Research Assistant Professor, Bastyr University; Associate Director, Bastyr University Research Institute
  • Patricia Herman, ND, MS, PhD Senior Behavior Scientist, RAND Corporation

Traditional World Medicines/Emerging Professions

  • Iris Bell, PhD, MD Council on Homeopathic Education; University of Arizona School of Medicine
  • Jennifer Rioux, MA, PhD National Ayurvedic Medical Association; Research Fellow, University of Arizona

Multidisciplinary Institutions

  • Daniel Cherkin, PhD Director, Bastyr University Research Institute; Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute

Emeritus

  • Richard Hammerschlag, PhD Founding Co-Chair, ACCAHC RWG; 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, Palmer Center for Chiropractic Policy and Research

Ex Officio

  • David Barnes, PhD Director of Research & Development, Standard Process

 

ACCAHC RWG meeting July 2008