President: Dr Richard Tonkin MD FRCP
Co founder: Mr Harold Wicks

Chair; Prof. Nicola Robinson
Nicola was appointed Professor of Complementary Medicine at Thames Valley University in 2004. She has a PhD in Immunology and a background in epidemiology and health services research. She qualified as an acupuncturist in 1982 and currently chairs the British Acupuncture Council's Research Committee. Nicola is also the Independent Chair of the General Naturopathic Council. She is on the International Advisory Board for the journal Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, associate editor of the NHS National Electronic Library for Health CAM Specialist Library, a non executive Director of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR), a member of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Complementary Therapies Clinical Studies Development Group became Chair of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine Research (RCCM) in Oct 2007. As an active researcher, she has published widely and is keen to further develop complementary medicine research by encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration both locally, nationally and internationally. She isc urrently supervising six PhD students at Thames Valley University and was awarded a Kings Fund grant earlier this year to investigate Traditional and Complementary health care approaches for Children.

Vice Chair; Dr Peter Davies MA PhD
Peter graduated originally in Engineering at Cambridge University and did his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal. He has a background in medical computing and is a keen proponent of audit as a tool for monitoring and evaluating practice. Prior to joining the University of Westminster in 1993, he worked with the Marylebone Centre Trust which together with the University, founded the Centre for Community Care & Primary Health. He was appointed Head of the School of Integrated Health at the University of Westminster in September 2000, and Dean in 2005. He is on the project team for the National Electronic Library for Health's Specialist Library in Complementary & Alternative Medicine, is advisor to the Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.

John Barber LL.B FCII FIoD
John is a management consultant: his principal consultancy activity is with the Financial Services Authority where he has been a senior advisor for four years. Prior to becoming a self-employed consultant, John spent his career in the insurance industry, involving him in the range of insurance activity: from life to general, direct and primary to reinsurance, support services to core insurance, UK to international, corporate to mutual. He has operated at all levels in the insurance industry - Chairman, NED, and some ten years as a CEO, as well as a range of executive positions, including being for four years Company Secretary of a major quoted insurance group. He is a qualified life and corporate coach. John's wife is a homeopath and spiritual director.

Janine Leach BSc PhD DO ND
Janine practices as an osteopath in Carshalton, Surrey and is also a Senior Research Fellow in Osteopathy at the University of Brighton. Since 1990 she has combined practice and research. She has many scientific publications in epidemiology and health services research in cancer, and since 2003 in osteopathy and complementary therapy. She is a member of the NCRI (National Cancer Research Institute) Complementary Therapies Clinical Studies Development Group and the National Council for Osteopathic Research (NCOR) and is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine. She is the current president of the British Naturopathic Association.

Roger Newman Turner BAc ND DO
Osteopath, Acupuncturist; author, and lecturer on naturopathic medicine. Roger is a practising naturopath, osteopath, and acupuncturist. He graduated from the British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy in 1963, and from the British College of Acupuncture, obtained the Licentiate in Acupuncture in 1966 and the Bachelor of Acupuncture in 1973. He is a member of the General Council and Register of Naturopaths, a Fellow of the British Naturopathic Association and British Acupuncture Council and registered with the General Osteopathic Council. He also holds a certificate in Zero Balancing. He has lectured internationally on naturopathy and is the author of a number of books, including Naturopathic Medicine a definitive work on the principles and practice of naturopathy. Roger has held various executive offices in complementary medicine and served on a number of committees involved in initiatives for integrated medicine. He has been a trustee of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine since its foundation in1983, serving as chairman from 1993 to 1997.

Mike O'Farrell

Dr Charlotte Paterson MB ChB PhD
Charlotte qualified as a doctor at Bristol in 1972 and has over twenty years experience as a general practitioner. At Warwick House Medical Centre in Taunton she practised alongside a group of complementary therapists and she remains committed to working towards the provision of complementary medicine free at the point of need. For the last twelve years she has been increasingly involved in research into complementary medicine and is now a full-time senior research fellow with the Institute of Health Service Research, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter. She is experienced in both quantitative and qualitative research and has a particular interest in exploring and measuring outcomes from the patient’s perspective. She developed an individualised questionnaire called Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP). She wishes to promote collaborative projects, which include patients, practitioners and researchers. She is particularly interested in how people with long-term health problems make use of a wide variety of health care resources – self-care, conventional care, alternative and complementary therapies- and how they can be assisted to make well informed decisions.