Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board consists of leading scholars and practitioners in healthcare law, regulation, policy and ethics associated with complementary and integrative medicine. Our Board includes:

Brian K. Burke, MBA. Mr. Burke is founder of Bio-Informatics, Inc., a company using a natural, organic systems approach to helping executives and entrepreneurs grow organizations. He received his BS in Chemistry at Florida State University and his MBA in Finance from the Harvard Business School. His Fortune 500 experience includes finance, planning and research positions with a $2 billion chemicals and plastics producer. He has experience with emerging companies, particularly healthcare and technology, in the role of Board Member, Advisor, Executive Director and CFO. The natural, organic approach utilized incorporates a studied view of nature's organizing principles, best management practices, leading edge science and ancient wisdom traditions in an effort to enhance the life, spirit and performance of organizations and individuals. His healthcare experience in addition to organizational consulting and recruiting includes roles as CFO for a contract service company in the hospital perfusion market, CFO for a tissue cryopreservation company, CFO for an out-patient surgery medical center and founding Board Member and Executive Director of a medical research institute.

Sherman L. Cohn, JD. Professor Cohn has been a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center since 1965. He specializes in the fields of civil procedure and professional responsibility and has published various books and articles on those subjects in recent years. Before joining the Law Center faculty, he served as a clerk for Judge Charles Fahy of the D.C. Circuit and in the Appellate Section of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. He is a member of the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia bars and is also a member of the American Law Institute, the American Judicature Society, and the Society of American Law Teachers. He served for eleven years as the first national president of the American Inns of Court. He is a member of the Charles Fahy American Inn. He served as the Administrator of Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases from 1976-79 and as Director of Continuing Legal Education at the Law Center from 1977-84. From 1982-93, he served as chair of the National Accreditation Commission for Schools and Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. From 1983-87, he served as president of the American Section of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and as deputy president of the International Association. He served as the President of the Jewish Law Association from 1998 to 2002. He has also served as a director of the Foundation for Mideast Communication. From 1985-87, he served as chair of the Georgetown Annual Fund. Earlier he had been chair of the Georgetown Law Fund. During 1997-98, he lectured in Germany, Colombia, Russia, Korea, China, Japan, and Paraguay, and in 1999 in Italy. He served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Tai Hsuan Foundation and the Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance, and is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tai Sophia Institute, the National Acupuncture Foundation, and is on the Board of Visitors of John Marshall Law School.

Alan Dumoff, JD, MSW. Alan Dumoff, JD has practiced law since 1988 with a special focus on the legal needs of integrative physicians and complementary and alternative (CAM) practitioners. A former acting director of the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists, Mr. Dumoff assists physicians and CAM practitioners with a wide range of regulatory, insurance, and disciplinary issues, including billing and reimbursement matters, practice structure, dietary supplement and medical device regulation, laboratory requirements and medical/health board disciplinary charges. He has the unusual distinction of representation in a matter heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as extensive appellate and administrative experience. Mr. Dumoff's consulting practice includes management, business and clinical aspects of integrative/CAM practice, as well as training hospital staff in credentialing CAM practitioners. Mr. Dumoff's grasp of legal and practice management issues is complemented by his clinical training and experience, including facilitation of a multidisciplinary health care team, seven years delivering family therapy/psychotherapy services, several years assisting in design and management of social programs, and post-graduate training in research design. Mr. Dumoff is active in the national policy development of integrative health care. He co-chaired the Design Principles for Healthcare Renewal Working Group and is on the Advisory Committee of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium, national bodies working on integrative medicine policy. He was acknowledged by the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy for contributions to the Commission's Final Report. Mr. Dumoff successfully lobbied for changes protecting alternative medicine in federal legislation with the potential to create criminal exposure for practicing CAM, worked on legislation establishing the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, and has drafted state licensing legislation. His policy efforts have been international in scope, including a paper presented at a seminar sponsored by the Islamic Organization of Medical Sciences (IOMS) and the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO/EMRO) in Cairo, Egypt. The International Seminar on "Integration of Traditional Medicine (Complementary/Alternative Medicine) and Modern Medicine" was held in 2002; Mr. Dumoff's paper was entitled "National Policies and Regulations on Integration - the United States' Experience. An author of numerous articles, book chapters, and conference presentations, his publications address a wide variety of legal and policy issues regarding integrative/ CAM practice. He writes a regular legal column in Alternative/Complementary Therapies.

Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD. Marc Micozzi is a physician-anthropologist who has worked to create science-based tools for the health professions to be better informed and productively engaged in the new fields of complementary and alternative (CAM) and integrative medicine. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the first US journal in CAM, Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy (1994). He organized and edited the first US textbook, Fundamentals of Complementary & Alternative Medicine (1996), now in a third edition (2005), with Churchill-Livingstone/Elsevier Health Sciences. In addition, he has served as series editor for Medical Guides to Complementary and Alternative Medicine (also for Churchill-Livingstone/Elsevier) with eighteen titles in print on a broad range of therapies and therapeutic systems within the scope of CAM. In 1999, he edited Current Complementary Therapies for Current Science Press, focusing on contemporary innovations and controversies, and Physician's Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine, for American Health Consultants. He has organized and chaired continuing education conferences on the theory, science and practice of CAM in 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998 and 2001. He co-chaired these conferences with former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in 1996 and with Dr. Dean Ornish in 1998. Prior to his work on CAM, Dr. Micozzi conducted and published original research on diet, nutrition and chronic disease, a topic that is also now within the continuum of contemporary CAM. He worked as a Senior Investigator (Senior Staff Fellow) in the Cancer Prevention Studies Branch (intramural research) of the National Cancer Institute from 1984-86. He continued this line of research in collaboration with NIH colleagues when he was appointed Associate Director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and Director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in 1986. His early work on carotenoids (including lycopene), iron and cancer (collaborating with Nobel laureate Baruch Blumberg), anthropometric methods for time-related assessment of nutritional status, and other research made important contributions to this field. He was recognized for this work by his selection as the recipient of a young investigator award at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1992, at which time he was jointly appointed as a Distinguished Scientist in the American Registry of Pathology, an affiliated Congressionally chartered research and educational organization. During this time he also edited and co-edited two comprehensive technical volumes on application of clinical trials methods to new investigations of the role of micronutrients and macronutrients in cancer. In 1995, Dr. Micozzi returned to Philadelphia (where he had completed his medical and graduate training at the University of Pennsylvania from 1974-83) to serve as Executive Director of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He managed all aspects of the College's public educational programs and operations. He carried out new assignments and directions and successfully managed the programmatic, financial and physical revitalization of the organization. This included creation of the C. Everett Koop Community Health Information Center, which provided state-of-the-art information to consumers on health, wellness, and CAM. The White House Commission recognized this work on behalf of consumer health information on complementary and alternative medicine in 2001. Dr. Micozzi has actively worked with Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop since 1986 with the National Museum of Health and Medicine, on his textbook, on his conferences, and formerly as a medical and scientific advisor to "Dr. Koop Life Care Corporation" where he worked on new developments with the FDA regarding regulatory review of dietary supplements. Over the past several years Dr. Micozzi has developed his own formulations for dietary, herbal and nutritional supplements for a wide variety of applications and has reviewed thousands of publications on hundreds of dietary supplement ingredients regarding their safety and effectiveness. He has been a frequent speaker on these topics nationally and internationally, as well as an effective spokesman with the print (New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times) and broadcast (Good Morning America, CBS Evening News, CNN, C-SPAN, NPR) media. He is Founding Director of the Informatics Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Bethesda, MD, working to educate policymakers, the health professions and the general public about needs and opportunities for integrative medicine to benefit all Americans. From 2003-2005, he accepted an interim appointment as Executive Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

Mary Ruggie, PhD. Mary Ruggie is Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Professor Ruggie teaches courses on comparative health systems, focusing on Western Europe, and comparative social policy, focusing on gender. Her publications include The State and Working Women: A Comparison of Britain and Sweden (Princeton, 1984), Realignments in the Welfare State: Health Policy in the U.S., Britain and Canada (Columbia, 1996), and Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America (Cambridge, 2004), as well as numerous articles related to these subjects. Ruggie has a PhD in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught at Barnard College, the University of California at San Diego, and Columbia University, where she chaired the Sociology Department. She is currently working on issues related to gender and integrated medicine.