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Jun J. Mao, MD, MSCE 

SAR Board Co-President

Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine, Chief of Integrative Medicine Service,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

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Lisa Jean Taylor-Swanson, PhD, MAcOM, LAc

SAR Board Co-President

Assistant Professor, Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist, College of Nursing, University of Utah

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John Yoo, MBA

SAR Board Treasurer

Chief Executive Officer, Virginia University of Integrative Medicine

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F. Afua Bromley, DACM

Board Member
Co-chair, NCCAOM & ASA Cultural Competence Task Force (NCCAOM)
Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
St Louis, MO


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Molly Candon, MBA

Board Member
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Claudia Citkovitz, PhD, MS, LAc

Board Member
Director, Acupuncture Services, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Medical School

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Sandro Graca, MSc, Lic TCM, FABORM

Board Member
Lecturer and Researcher; School of Health and Society, Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, UK

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Richard E. Harris, PhD, LAc

Board Member

Susan Samueli Endowed Chair and Professor, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, School of Medicine University of California at Irvine



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Jiang-ti Kong, MD

Board Member

Department of Anesthesiology Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Stanford University Hospital and Clinics - Stanford, CA



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Lixing Lao, PhD, MB, LAc

Board Member

Professor and President, Virginia University of Integrative Medicine - Fairfax, VA



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Hongjin Li, PhD, BSN, FAAN

Board Member

Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing



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Ari Ojedo Ocampo More, MD, MSc, PhD

Board Member

Coordinator of the Integrative Medicine Service at the University Hospital, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC); Supervisor of the Medical Residency Program in Acupuncture and Pain Residency Program at the University Hospital - UFSC



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Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LAc

Board Member

Massachusetts General Hospital, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging - Boston, MA



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Rosa Schnyer, DAOM, LAc

Board Member

Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Texas - Austin, TX


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Peter Wayne, PhD

Board Member

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director of Research, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School - Boston, MA



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Claudia Witt, MD, MBA

Board Member

Professor and Director, Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine; University Hospital Zurich and University Zurich


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Richard Hammerschlag, PhD

Advisory Board Member


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Laura Triplett

Executive Director




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