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 has also taken some internal steps toward clarifying the components of a shared research agenda which may speak more directly to clinicians in the ACCAHC professions.

Co-Chairs

Roni Evans, DC, MS Dean of Research and Director of the Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies, Northwestern Health Sciences University

Heather Zwickey, PhD Dean of Research, Helfgott Research Institute/National College of Natural Medicine

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Richard Hammerschlag, PhD Dean of Research, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine; Co-founder, Society for Acupuncture Research

Lixing Lao, PhD, LAc Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Kernan Hospital Mansion; Faculty Member, Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Program, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Rosa Schnyer, LAc, DAOM Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin; Co-President, Society for Acupuncture Research

Chiropractic

Gregory D. Cramer, PhD, DC Professor of Anatomy and Research, Dean of Research, Nationla University of Health Sciences

Christine Goertz, DC, PhD Executive Director, Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research

Mitchell Haas, DC, MA Professor and Dean of Research, Western States Chiropractic College

Massage Therapy

Janet R. Kahn, PhD, NCTMB Chair, Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium; Director, Center for Integrated Health Care, Burlington, Vermont; Research Assistant Professor at the Medical College, University of Vermont

Martha Brown Menard, PhD, MA, CMT Associate Research Professor, University of Virgina School of Medicine

Cynthia Price, PhD, LMP Research Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington School of Nursing

Naturopathic Medicine

Carlo Calabrese, ND, MPH Senior Investigator, Helfgott Research Institute/National College of Natural Medicine

Patricia Herman, ND, MS, PhD University of Arizona

Wendy Weber, ND, MPH, PhD Program Officer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH

Board Liaisons

Christa Louise, MS, PhD Executive Director, North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners

Reed Phillips, DC, PhD Founding Chair, ACCAHC

Ex Officio

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