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AUTHOR INFORMATION

Mones S Abu-Asab PhD holds a PhD degree in phylogenetic systematics from Ohio University, Ohio, USA. Before joining the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1998, he taught at Birzeit University and worked on phylogenetic analysis at the Smithsonian Institution, vaccine analysis at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and ultrastructural pathology at George Washington University. He is currently an ultrastructural biologist at the Laboratory of Pathology of NCI. He has been working on clinical ultrastructural pathology as well as collaborative research projects for the last 12 years. His record of publication is diverse and includes papers on bioinformatics, plant systematics, tumor biology, virology, traditional medical systems and global warming. Most recently, he has been advo-cating the application of phylogenetic analysis to high-throughput omics data. His analyses have shown that parsimony phylogenetics is a multidimensional tool that is useful for disease modeling, profiling and subtyping as well as biomarker discovery.

Amy L Ai PhD is professor in the School of Social Work and Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and an affiliate researcher of the University of Michigan (Integrative Medicine) where she also received her doctorate, three master’s degrees and National Institute of Aging postdoctoral training. With a broad background in psychology, medicine and integrative medicine, she was also trained by well-known qigong masters as an acupunc-turist. She designed and served as the initial principal investigator (PI) on a large-scale (400 patients), three-arm, randomized clinical trial (RCT) on energy healing ( external qigong ) for recovery from open-heart surgery funded by the US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In addition, she has served as PI for six additional projects funded by US National Institute of Health agencies and Foundations. She publishes extensively about the influence of Western and Eastern beliefs on health and mental health. In 2000, she was nominated by President Clinton to be a member of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (but declined due to career transition).

Hakima Amri PhD holds a PhD in reproductive physiology and steroid biochem-istry from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France. She is the cofounder of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) educational initiative at Georgetown University and Director of the unique CAM Master of Science degree in physiology since its launch in 2003. Her research focuses on integrat-ing evidence-based CAM to biomedical research. With her colleagues, she has identified a new mechanism of action of Ginkgo biloba involving stress hormones

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and they were among the first to publish its effects on gene transcription. She is currently investigating the effects of herbal products on prostate cancer and endometriosis and the mechanisms underlying the effects of acupuncture on the stress response in animal models. Her clinical research is centered on the study of the neuronal correlates of massage and the acute stress response using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Claire M Cassidy PhD, Dipl Ac, LAc earned her PhD in human biology at the University of Wisconsin, and completed postdoctoral programs at the Smithsonian Institution (anthropology) and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (history of medicine). She has served on university anthropology faculties pioneering courses in cross-cultural and comparative human medicine, and carried out medical and nutritional anthropology research in various countries. In 1991 she became Research Director at the Traditional Acupuncture Institute (now TAI-Sophia), near Baltimore, MD. There she performed the first US national survey of acupuncture users, and was active in the early work of what became the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, including serving on the planning committee for the 1997 Consensus Conference on Acupuncture. Since 2001, she has worked as an Oriental medicine clinician herself. She has also received advanced training in Kiiko Matsumoto style Japanese acupuncture, Harner-style shamanic practice, and the bioenergy healing method of Mietek Wirkus. She has a particular interest in the perceptual world of the acupuncture medicine practitioner.

Nancy N Chen PhD is a medical anthropologist, professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is author of Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China (Columbia University Press, 2003) and Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health (Columbia University Press, 2009). She is coeditor of China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture (Duke University Press, 2001), Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations (New Pacific Press, 2006) and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (Duke University Press, 2010).

Gideon Enz DMQ has been practicing and teaching qigong , taiji and Asian medicine for the past 20 years. He holds a doctorate in Chinese medical qigong therapy from Beijing and Henan and is one of the senior instructors at the International Institute of Medical Qigong . He is a shifu (master instructor) in both Yang and Chen styles of taiji quan and practices the internal martial arts of bagua zhang and da chen chuan . He has spent years traveling throughout Asia to study and apprentice with countless masters, yogis and teachers and is also a long-time practitioner of Indian, Tibetan and South Asian schools of yoga and alchemy. Gideon Enz can be reached through his website at www.gideonenz.com .

Kevin V Ergil MA, MS, LAc is a professor at the Finger Lakes School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine of New York Chiropractic College. He has practiced acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine since 1990 and is also a medical anthropologist. A diplomate of Oriental medicine from the US National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), he has held the following positions: founding director of the graduate program in Oriental medicine and associate professor, School of Health Sciences, Touro College, New York; president, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, San Francisco; founding dean and director of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, New York Campus. Additionally, he served as director of research and chair of the Department of Oriental Medicine at the New York College for Wholistic Health Education and Research.

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Peter H Fraser BAc, BA was born in 1943 and educated in Australia, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree at Melbourne University. He later completed a private degree in acupuncture and Chinese medicine from the International College of Oriental Medicine, then based in the Netherlands. His lecture material was used to found a degree course in acupuncture at the Victoria University in Melbourne during the 1980s. Since 1983 he has carried out various funded research projects and from 2000 onwards he has led the development of a new energetic biology system based on modern quantum field theory and traditional Chinese medicine. He has written a number of books including Decoding the Human Body Field (2008), has delivered lectures in Australia, USA, Hong Kong and Europe, and in 2009 he was featured in the documentary film The Living Matrix . He lives in Spain where he continues his research for NES Health.

Mary Lou Galantino PT, PhD, MSCE is a professor at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ, and also conducts research on integrative medicine and chronic diseases as an adjunct scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She has two master’s degrees, and received her doctorate from Temple University. For 30 years she has worked in the field of chronic diseases, and has extensive experience with the HIV population, acting as an advocate locally and nationally for rehabili-tation services since the early 1980s. She co-edited AIDS and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Current Science and Practice (Churchill Livingstone, 2002), and served as editor for the journal Orthopedic Physical Therapy Clinics of North America , including a special issue on complementary medicine (2000). She has coauthored research articles on meditation for healthcare professionals and the use of yoga for chronic low back pain, menopause and breast cancer. She is also involved in NIH-funded research investigating the use of acupuncture for osteoarthritis and yoga for mild hypertension.

John A Ives PhD is director for the brain, mind and healing program at the Samueli Institute for the scientific exploration of healing. Research efforts under his direction include the use of dietary supplements for the treatment of leu-kodystrophies and traumatic brain injury, and a vigorous research program into the underlying mechanisms of homeopathy, its anticancer effects and the modifi-cation of the immunological response. Other projects under his direction include laboratory research into human bioenergy and the measurement of biophotons for determining health status. He has coauthored numerous research papers on these topics. John Ives received his PhD in biology from Georgetown University, Washington, DC and has also conducted and published research on biorhythms and neuroimmunology.

Wayne B Jonas MD is the president and chief executive officer of the Samueli Institute for the scientific exploration of healing. He is also a professor of family medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and an associate professor of family medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. A family physician and scientist, he formerly served as the director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health, the director of the Medical Research Fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, a direc-tor of a WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine, and a member of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He sits on numerous national and international advisory boards and scientific review groups. He is the author of over 150 publications and five books.

Eric Leskowitz MD is a board-certified psychiatrist with the pain management program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA. He has an appoint-ment with the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School, directs the

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hospital’s Integrative Medicine Task Force, and has organized several confer-ences on the topic of complementary and alternative medicine in rehabilitation. He edited a recent text of the same name (Churchill Livingstone, 2003) and has written and lectured widely on the field of energy medicine. He has worked for 15 years with chronic pain patients, and his particular interest is in the subtle energy structures that underlie the approaches used: the energy field (‘aura’), energy cen-ters (‘chakras’) and energy pathways (‘meridians’) that comprise human subtle anatomy. He is also interested in the way in which the dynamics of energy flow can cause either health or illness, via a process that he calls ‘energy physiology’.

May Loo MD is assistant clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Department of Anesthesia at Stanford Medical Center, and is director of the High Risk Infant Program, the Infant Neurodevelopmental Program and the Pediatric CAM program at the Santa Clara County Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA. Her original Five Element developmental theory was developed to identify vulnerable organs in different age groups, and the organ of origin in chronic illnesses. She has lectured on the integration of Western medicine with pediatric acupuncture in the USA, Europe, Canada and China, and is the author of textbooks on Pediatric Acupuncture (Churchill Livingstone, 2002) and Integrative Medicine for Children (Saunders, 2008).

Christopher Low PhD, CAc(Nanjing, PRC) is an acupuncturist, intuitive and healer with more than 30 years’ clinical experience. Also a trained pharmacologist, he has studied the physiological impacts of intention using an early precursor to qigong healing called daoyin , and has investigated other research with ‘external qi ’. His main interest is in understanding therapeutic agency and healing processes that appear to be associated with these time-honored health promotion practices, and in identifying promising research perspectives in biology/medicine. With a doctorate in complementary health studies, Christopher is also an advanced prac-titioner of a contact form of daoyin healing that is applied to the jingluo or meridian system. He lives and works in Cambridge (UK), where he jointly runs the multi-disciplinary Cambridge Complementary Health Practice.

Carolyn McMakin DC, MA is the clinical director of the Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Clinic of Portland, Oregon. She developed frequency specific microcurrent (FSM) in 1995 and began teaching FSM courses in 1997. In addition to maintaining a part-time clinical practice, she teaches seminars on the use of FSM in the USA, Ireland and Europe. She has lectured at the National Institutes of Health and at numerous conferences in the USA, England, Canada and Australia on the subjects of fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome, fibromyalgia asso-ciated with cervical trauma and on the differential diagnosis and treatment of pain and pain syndromes and sports injuries. Her publications include papers on the FSM-induced changes in inflammatory cytokines and substance P seen with the effective treatment of fibromyalgia associated with neck injuries, and effective treatment of pain in the head, neck and face, and low back caused by myofascial trigger points. She treats and consults with various NFL and MLB teams and play-ers on the use of FSM in the treatment of sports injuries. Her textbook on FSM in pain management was published by Elsevier in 2010.

David Mayor MA, BAc is an acupuncturist in private practice in Hertfordshire (UK). He has been actively engaged in bioenergy research, practice and publishing for over 30 years, and has experience with many of the approaches mentioned in this book. Before that, he worked in a publishing cooperative and was involved in the world of performance art. He is currently a research associate at the University of Hertfordshire and a supervisor on the MSc Oriental Herbal Medicine programme

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at the University of East London. He is the editor of Electroacupuncture: A Practical Manual and Resource (Elsevier, 2007), and two other acupuncture textbooks. For further information on the data used in his chapter, he may be reached through www. welwynacupuncture.co.uk, where the Glossary for this book may also be found .

Marc Micozzi MD, PhD is a physician and anthropologist with nearly 300 pub-lished papers in the medical, scientific and technical literature. The founding editor-in-chief of the influential US Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine , he has also been responsible for many respected textbooks on different aspects of complementary and alternative medicine, particularly in the field of cancer treatment and research. His textbook The Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine is now in its fourth edition (Saunders, 2010). In addition to his work as a clinician, he has held many executive positions, including direc-tor of the National Museum of Health and Medicine (1986), executive director of the Philadelphia College of Physicians (1995), and founding director of the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine in Bethesda, MD (2002). He is an adjunct profes-sor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University.

Phil Mollon PhD has a background in clinical psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He has worked within the British National Health Service for over 30 years, including 4 years at the Tavistock Clinic in London. His search for better methods of resolving severe psychological trauma led him first to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and then to energy psychology. Whilst finding that Thought Field Therapy, linking the mind and the body’s energy field, is often startlingly effective, he came to realize that the phenomena involved can also be made congruent with psychodynamic theory.

Laura Muscatello DPT is a graduate student in the doctor of physical therapy (DPT) program at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ. A member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), she has experience in the fields of orthopedics, special needs and geriatrics in a variety of clinical settings. Laura hopes to integrate her passion for dance into her clinical practice once she has graduated with her DPT.

Tim Newman CertZB, LicAc, DTM trained as an acupuncturist and therapeutic masseur before encountering Zero Balancing (ZB) in 1984. Since then he has been practicing ZB in Cornwall and London and teaching workshops in the UK and abroad. He is a volunteer consultant at the Helen Bamber Foundation in London, part of a team helping survivors of cruelty. Currently he is gathering material for a research project regarding human sensory experience. This combines performance and practice in both art and medicine, and looks at the way information, learning and healing response are affected and transmitted by integrated bodymind func-tioning. In his painting practice he is known for vibrant and vigorous landscape and figures, a style strongly supported by his experience with touch therapies. He is also keen to encourage a more broad-based anthropological approach to evidencing energy which he understands quite naturally as ‘making science from the senses’.

James L Oschman PhD is president of Nature’s Own Research Association in Dover, NH. He is the author of two influential books on energy medicine, Energy Medicine , The Scientific Basis (Churchill Livingstone, 2000) and Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance (Butterworth Heinemann, 2003), as well as numerous papers in leading scientific journals. He also holds two US patents. His PhD from the University of Pittsburgh was for work in cellular biology, which has

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formed the basis for his research ever since. He has held a number of academic and advisory positions, including being a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Foundation for Alternative Medicine, and Chair of the Board of Directors at the New England School of Acupuncture, Watertown, MA.

F David Peat PhD MSc carried out research in theoretical physics at the National Research Council of Canada. In 1971, he met David Bohm while on a sabbatical with Roger Penrose. They coauthored Science, Order and Creativity and were work-ing on a second book The Order Between and Beyond when Bohm died. Peat is the author of 21 books and founder of the Pari Center for New Learning in the medi-eval hilltop village of Pari in Tuscany.

Franklyn Sills MA, RCST is cofounder of the Karuna Institute in Devon, England, has been teaching craniosacral biodynamics worldwide for nearly 30 years, and has influenced many of the current trainers in the USA and Europe. His books, Craniosacral Biodynamics Volumes 1 and 2, are seminal texts in the field, and are currently being updated with new volumes. Having originally studied medical sciences, Franklyn has a long history of study and clinical practice in psychother-apy as well as in craniosacral therapy. His original psychotherapeutic orientation was in humanistic psychology, working with neo-Reichian therapy and prenatal and birth psychotherapy (in particular the methods of Dr William Emerson, with whom he has studied and collaborated). In the Core Process Psychotherapy train-ings at the Institute Franklyn offers his expertise through lecturing on Buddhist psychology, shock and trauma, and prenatal and birth psychology. His recent studies include the neurophysiology of stress and trauma.

Franklyn was a Buddhist monk under the most venerable Taungpulu Kaba Aye Sayadaw of Northern Burma, and also studied in the Zen and Taoist traditions. His experience in the cranial field has convinced him that the body must be included in any form of therapy. His published books include The Polarity Process , Craniosacral Biodynamics , and most recently Being and Becoming: Psychodynamics, Buddhism, and the Origins of Selfhood . Franklyn offers teachings internationally, including in America, Germany and Switzerland.

Cyril W Smith PhD was born in London in 1930. He worked on radar research at the Telecommunications Research Establishment Malvern, medical X-ray image intensification at Imperial College, London and taught school physics for 5 years before joining the Department of Electrical Engineering at Salford University in 1964, where he pioneered a biomedical electronics degree course. Over the years his students gained 18 MSc and 19 PhD degrees. With over 100 publications, his research covered instrument technology, biomedical electronics, dielectric liquids and electromagnetic interactions in biological systems and water. From 1973, he cooperated with Herbert Fröhlich on the interaction of coherent electromagnetic fields with living systems, biological materials and water. Since 1982, he has had a continuing involvement with the diagnosis and therapy of electromagnetically hypersensitive patients. He retired from Salford University in 1990, the same year that his coauthored book Electromagnetic Man was awarded a ‘Book of the Year’ prize.

Darren Starwynn Dipl Ac, OMD is an Oriental medical doctor (OMD), inventor and writer with 27 years of clinical experience. A graduate of the American School of Oriental Therapy and the Tri-State Institute of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, he earned his OMD at the National Academy of Advanced Asian Medicine. He has led well over 100 seminars and workshops throughout the world since 1991, and is the author of the book Microcurrent Electro-Acupuncture , now in its sixth

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printing. He also developed the Acutron series of microcurrent and therapeutic light devices that have helped many thousands of people in the relief of pain and disease and to look and feel younger. Darren Starwynn has meditated and pur-sued a spiritual path since his teenage years, and brings a depth of knowledge and awareness to his practice and teaching. He has a strong interest in helping people heal the psychic and emotional roots of pain and disease, and developed the Acutron systems for this purpose.

Patrizia Stefanini PhD graduated cum laude in theoretical physics from the University of Pavia in 1982, and then earned her PhD in health physics at the University of Milan. She became involved in the shiatsu world in 1983, attending seminars throughout Europe and the USA. Starting out as a student of Wataru Ohashi and then afterwards Pauline Sasaki, Patrizia’s shiatsu has developed to become rich with references to the fundamental theories of modern physics and their correspondence to other Oriental disciplines and philosophies. Author of numerous articles translated into several languages, she is currently engaged in research on an original human energy model that has its basis in the theories of bio-physics and quantum physics. This work is being carried out in collaboration with scientists from the International Institute of Biophysics in Neuss, Germany, and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Milan, Italy.

John L Stump DC, PhD, EdD has a masters and doctorate in sports medicine from the United States Sports Academy and a doctorate in chiropractic from Palmer College in Davenport, Iowa. He went on to complete his Oriental Medical Doctorate at Shanxi University in 1981, with further postdoctoral work in oriental medicine and acupuncture in Japan, China and Korea. In addition he holds black belts in judo and karate , and has himself been a sensei (teacher) of shorinji kempo for over 30 years. With his unique approach to healthcare based on both Eastern and Western scientific perspectives, John Stump acted as South Korean team doctor for the Asian Games (1986), in China (1987), and at the Seoul World Olympics (1988). He has authored over 50 scientific articles, and coauthored four textbooks. While completing a contribution to a textbook on electroacupuncture edited by David Mayor (Elsevier, 2007), he suffered a severe stroke, and later that year released A Stroke of Midnight (Alternative Concepts Publishing, 2007), a nonfiction account of that experience. He is now writing an East-West anatomy text for McGraw-Hill, and may be reached through www.alternative-concepts.com .

Gabriel Stux MD is a physician and well-known acupuncture practitioner. He studied medicine in Freiburg, Frankfurt/Main and Düsseldorf in Germany from 1968 to 1975 and acupuncture and pain treatment in India, Sri Lanka and China from 1977 to 1989. He is the director of the German Acupuncture Society, which he founded in 1978, and for more than 30 years has taught Chinese medicine, acu-puncture and, more recently, energy medicine worldwide.

Gabriel Stux is the author of more than 100 articles and numerous books on acu-puncture and energy medicine, including standard works such as the Acupuncture Textbook and Atlas (1987) and Basics of Acupuncture (1991). He also coedited Scientific Bases of Acupuncture with Bruce Pomeranz (1989) and Clinical Acupuncture: Scientific Basis with Richard Hammerschlag (2001). All four books were published by Springer Verlag.

Gabriel Stux has developed several new methods, including chakra acupunc-ture, organ flow meditation and chakra meditation. He works in private prac-tice, specializing in pain treatment, acupuncture and energy healing. He lives in Düsseldorf and Santa Barbara, CA.

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Christopher C Taylor PhD is a sociocultural anthropologist who has written extensively about Rwandan traditional medicine, violence and ethnicity. He has done fieldwork in Rwanda on several different occasions and most recently in the spring of 2009 when he was observing gacaca trials associated with the 1994 geno-cide in Rwanda. He has held academic positions at several different American universities but is now an independent scholar.

Birinder Tember MBA, Lic Ac has been practicing spiritual Vedic exercises and Japanese martial arts since 1971, and Chinese qigong , martial arts and ‘internal sys-tems’ such as taiji quan , bagua zhang and xingyi since 1992. He has been awarded the fifth duan wei (fifth dan ) grade in wushu by the Chinese Wushu Association, China. Birinder is also a practitioner of Chinese medicine, with a BSc (Hons) from the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, UK. He lectures and super-vises on Chinese medicine at postgraduate level for the University of East London, and runs clinics and taiji / medical qigong schools in London and Kingston as well as teaching taiji and medical qigong to cancer patients at the West Middlesex University Hospital.

Alan Watkins PhD MBBS is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of emotions, health, leadership and performance. He originally qualified as a physi-cian in 1986, and also holds a first class degree in psychology and a PhD in immu-nology. He has published numerous scientific papers and has written several book chapters, his own book Mind-Body Medicine: A clinician’s guide to psychoneuroim-munology being published by Churchill Livingstone in 1997. His second book, on leadership, is due to be published in 2012.

He is currently honorary senior lecturer in neuroscience and psychological medicine at Imperial College and affiliate professor of leadership at the European School of Management, both in London.

Over the last 14 years Alan has worked, lectured and consulted for multinational organizations all over the world on the issues of leadership and performance. Through his own company Cardiac Coherence Ltd (CCL) he has coached many of the UK’s leading businessmen. He is married with four sons and lives in Hampshire in the UK.