NBJ chats with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s new director
Josephine Briggs, MD, took over the reins of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in January. After nearly a decade of running the NIH's Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases, Briggs brings to NCCAM a desire to focus on those complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies that Americans are using most and on developing strong translational research to understand and support the usefulness and safety of these therapies.
Nutrition Business Journal spoke with Briggs in early November to discuss her view of NCCAM's mission, preliminary findings from the center's National Health Interview Survey and how she views her organization's relationship with the dietary supplement industry with regard to helping drive supplement usage.
NBJ: How do you define NCCAM's mission?
Josephine Briggs, MD: We have always...
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