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Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a recognized leader in bringing medical scientific standards to issues relating to complementary and integrative medicine, has been named executive director of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia.

In 2002, Dr. Micozzi established the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine at Jefferson University Hospital. Its goal has been to educate policymakers, health professionals and the general public about needs and opportunities for integrative medicine.

He will be responsible for the management and administration of the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, which has a leading role in the evaluation and integration of promising complementary approaches to healing.

At the Center, Jefferson physicians incorporate nutritional, herbal and homeopathic therapies into a comprehensive patient care approach. Center therapists provide acupuncture, message, nutritional counseling, mindfulness meditation for stress reduction, movement therapy, yoga, light therapy, wellness and prevention programs.

Dr. Micozzi is well known in the greater complementary medicine community.

He was the founding editor and remains editor-in-chief of the journal Seminars in Integrative Medicine. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the first U.S. journal in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy in 1994. He organized and edited the first U.S. textbook, Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in 1996. This book is now in a second edition.

A prolific writer, Dr. Micozzi has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects. Recent topics include: health policy in integrative medicine, opportunities for integration of alternative or complementary medicine and issues in integrative medicine for physicians. Prior to his work on CAM, he conducted and published original research on diet, nutrition and chronic disease, a topic that is also now within the continuum of contemporary CAM.

Active in numerous editorial capacities, Dr. Micozzi is also a book series editor of Medical Guides to Complementary Medicine and reviewer for the American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia. He serves as a manuscript reviewer for the following publications: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, American Journal of Human Biology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Annals of Internal Medicine, Forensic Science International, HealthWise, Integrative Medicine Consult, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Journal of NIH Research, New England Journal of Medicine and Quarterly Review of Biology.

He is also a popular speaker. In recent years Dr. Micozzi has served as the keynote speaker at the International Society of Advancement of Humanistic Studies in Medicine in Big Sky, Mont., the Josiah Macy Foundation Conference on Medical Education in Phoenix and the National Board of Medical Examiners in Philadelphia.

Dr. Micozzi attended the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1971 and 1972. He received a bachelor of arts degree in 1974 from Pomona College in Claremont, Ca., a doctor of medicine degree and a master of science degree in epidemiology, concurrently, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.

After completing a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, Dr. Micozzi served as a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health until 1986.

He then became associate director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. In 1992, he was also named distinguished scientist at the American Registry of Pathology, which is part of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. In 1995, Dr. Micozzi returned to Philadelphia and became executive director of the College of Physicians.

In 1996, he was named adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine and of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1998 he served as visiting professor at the East-West Center of the University of Montana in Missoula.

Dr. Micozzi holds membership in a number of professional societies including: the Asia Society, American Medical Writers Association where he was named a trustee in 1990, American Public Health Association, American Chemical Society, American Association for Clinical Chemistry, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Preventive Oncology, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New York Academy of Sciences, New York Society for Tropical Medicine and Washington Association for Practicing Anthropologists. He is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.