The mission of the Research Working Group (RWG) is to promote mutual understanding, collaborative activities, and interdisciplinary health care education through research. The broad priorities of the RWG are: shifting the culture at CAM institutions to better embrace research; redirecting the research agenda regarding these disciplines so that it is of greater use to the members of the professions; and building research capacity within the ACCAHC disciplines. An early collaboration is the participation of RWG members in a steering committee on a Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA)-funded project to establish a practice-based research network to examine complementary, alternative and integrative practices.  The RWG works to clarify the components of a shared research agenda which may speak more directly to clinicians in the ACCAHC professions. The RWG led intensive ACCAHC involvement in dialogue with the leadership of the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the development of the 2011-2015 strategic plan. One outcome was increased recognition of the importance of focusing research on the impact of "disciplines" in the final plan.

Chair

Gregory D. Cramer, PhD, DC Professor of Anatomy and Research, Dean of Research, National University of Health Sciences

Carlo Calabrese, ND, MPH Executive Director, Naturopathic Physicians Research Institute

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Belinda Anderson, PhD, LAc Academic Dean and Research Director, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, New York; Assistant Clinical Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University

Lixing Lao, PhD, LAc Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Kernan Hospital Mansion; Faculty Member, Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Program, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Jeannette Painovich, LAc, DAOM, MA NIH Research Fellowship, Cedars Sinai; Private Practice, Santa Monica, California

Chiropractic

Mitchell Haas, DC, MA Professor and Dean of Research, University of Western States

Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD, CHES Director of Clinical Research at Logan College of Chiropractic; Editor-in-Chief, Topics in Integrative Health

William Meeker, DC, MPH President, Palmer College-West Campus

Massage Therapy

Jerrilyn Cambron, LMT, DC, MPH, PhD Professor, Department of Research, National University of Health Sciences

Martha Brown Menard, PhD, MA, CMT Principal, Sigma Applied Research; Associate Faculty, Georgetown University

Cynthia Price, PhD, LMP Research Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington School of Nursing

Naturopathic Medicine

Patricia Herman, ND, MS, PhD University of Arizona

Wendy Weber, ND, MPH, PhD Program Officer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH

Traditional World Medicines/Emerging Professions

Iris Bell, PhD, MD Council on Homeopathic Education; University of Arizona School of Medicine

Jennifer Rioux, MA, PhD National Ayurvedic Medical Association; Research Fellow, University of Arizona

Emeritus

Richard Hammerschlag, PhD Founding Co-Chair, ACCAHC RWG; past Dean of Research, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine; Co-founder, Society for Acupuncture Research; Fellow, The Institute for Integrative Health

Christine Goertz, DC, PhD Founding Co-Chair, Vice Chancellor, Palmer Center for Chiropractic Policy and Research

Ex Officio

David Barnes, PhD Director of Research & Development, Standard Process