The SAR Board

Rosa Schnyer, LAc - Co-President

Rosa N.Schnyer is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine (DAOM) and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. Her clinical practice has served as the foundation of her research career. Ms. Schnyer has been a leader in the field of Chinese medicine research; she has developed innovative research methodologies to evaluate complex interventions and better reflect clinical practice. Her clinical research has focused primarily on acupuncture as a treatment for depression and women’s health. She has served as Research Associate at the Harvard Medical School Osher Research Center since 2002 and is a Research Consultant to the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University, and to the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona.

Richard Harris, PhD - Co-President

Misha Cohen, OMD, LAc - Secretary

Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LAc -Treasurer

Vitaly Napadow is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Vitaly is also adjunct faculty at Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, MS. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. Vitaly graduated from the New England School of Acupuncture (NESA) with a MS degree in Acupuncture in 2002 and in addition to his research career, practices acupuncture at Brigham & Women's Hospital Pain Management Center in Boston, MA. His research interests focus on the processing of acupuncture by the brain, employing neuroimaging methods such as functional MRI and M/EEG. Select publications can be found at http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/%7Evitaly

Joseph F. Audette, MA, MD

Joseph F. Audette, M.D., earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 1991, completed a residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York in 1995, and is board certified in PM&R and Pain Management. While in New York, he trained in acupuncture at the Tristate School of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture. He has recently been hired as the new Chief of Pain Medicine at Harvard Vanguard in Boston, which is a large multi-specialty medical group practice providing care to more than 450,000 adult and pediatric patients across eastern Massachusetts. His research interests include Acupuncture, Myofascial and Chronic Pain and he has lectured internationally on these topics. He is currently working in collaboration with Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LicAp. on an NIH funded grant titled Brain Plasticity in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and its Response to Acupuncture.  He is also the co-director with David Euler, LicAp. and Kiiko Matsumoto, LicAp. of the Harvard CME course Structural Acupuncture for Physicians.

Robert Davis, MS, LAc

Robert Davis received an MS in acupuncture and oriental medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College, Santa Fe in 1999. He is board certified in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine and maintains a clinical practice in South Burlington, Vermont. He served as the President of the Vermont Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from 2001 – 2006. He is currently the President of Stromatec, Inc., a biotech R&D company providing quantitative tools and “know how” to researchers and clinicians in the areas of acupuncture needling techniques and connective tissue physiology and pathology. He has served as the Principle Investigator for three National Institute of Health research grants.

Richard Hammerschlag, PhD

Richard Hammerschlag is dean of research at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, where he is coordinating collaborative clinical trials of acupuncture and Chinese herbs for TMD, MS-specific fatigue and endometriosis-related pelvic pain, and a study of bioelectrical properties of acupuncture points.  He co-edited Clinical Acupuncture: Scientific Basis, Springer, Berlin, 2001, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and was co-president of SAR from 1997 - 2000.

Helene Langevin, MD, LAc

Lixing Lao, PhD, MD(China), LAc

Professor, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine ♦ Baltimore, MD

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Link: www.compmed.umm.edu

Lixing Lao is a Professor of the Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM), University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine.  He has been serving as a board member of SAR since 1998.  As a principal investigator or co-investigator, Dr. Lao's main research interest is in acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine and he has been conducting clinical trials and basic science studies on acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.  He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and the Advisory Board on the Journal of Alternative Therapies.

Hugh MacPherson trained in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in the early 1980’s and continues to practice these modalities in York, UK. He subsequently founded the Northern College of Acupuncture, based in York, and steered the College towards the first acupuncture degree course in the UK. He also set up the Foundation for Research into Traditional Chinese Medicine and then joined the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, where he holds a Career Scientist Award from the UK National Institute for Health Research. His research interests are varied, and include evaluating the safety and effectiveness of acupuncture, as well as neuroimaging to explore the underlying mechanisms of acupuncture’s action. He is co-ordinator of the STRICTA initiative, which involves an international group of experts with the aim of improving standards of reporting of clinical trials of acupuncture. He is lead editor of the book, “Acupuncture research: strategies for establishing an evidence base”.

Peter Wayne, PhD

Harvard Medical School, Division for Research and Education in Complementary & Integrative Medical Therapies

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Peter Wayne, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Medicine and Director of Tai Chi and Mind Body Research Programs in Harvard Medical School's Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies. He founded and served as director of the Oriental medicine research program at the New England school of Acupuncture (NESA) from 2000 to 2006. Peter has served as principal or co-investigator in a number of NIH-funded clinical trials evaluating East Asian therapies.  His current research evaluates how Tai Chi clinically impacts a variety of health conditions (osteoporosis, vestibulopathy, heart failure), and better understanding the physiological, mechanical, and psychological mechanisms underlying Tai Chi's therapeutic effects. Peter also has more than 30 years of training experience in Tai Chi and Qigong, and is a nationally recognized teacher of these practices.