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Helene Langevin, MD

Advisory Board Member

Osher Center for Integrative Health, University of Vermont

Board Bio

Helene M. Langevin, M.D., is the Director of Research at the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Vermont (UVM) as well as Senior Advisor on Scientific Communications at the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health (ACIMH).

From 2018 to 2025, Dr. Langevin served as the director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As NCCIH director, Dr. Langevin led the U.S. Federal government's lead agency for research on the fundamental science, usefulness, and safety of complementary and integrative health approaches and their roles in improving health and health care. She played a key role in developing the concept of Whole Person Health, which emphasizes the interconnections between biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors in health and wellness.

Prior to NIH, Dr. Langevin was the Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, jointly based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and professor-in-residence of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2012 to 2018. She also previously served as professor of neurological sciences at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont.

Over her career, Dr. Langevin’s research interests have centered around the role of connective tissue in chronic musculoskeletal pain and the mechanisms of acupuncture, manual, and movement-based therapies. Her more recent work has focused on the effects of stretching on inflammation resolution mechanisms within connective tissue. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Langevin received an M.D. degree from McGill University, Montreal. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in neurochemistry at the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge, England, and a residency in internal medicine and fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.