We are delighted to introduce Karen Charlesworth, our latest trustee. Karen qualified as an acupuncturist in 2013, since when she has run a busy private practice and multibed community clinic. Her research interests include complementary therapies in humanitarian aid, complex intervention research, and research methodologies for complementary therapies. She is the research director of the Northern College of Acupuncture in York. Karen is was awarded her PhD in 2024 at the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York for the NIHR portfolio-adopted trial “Sessions of Acupuncture and Nutritional Therapy Evaluation for Atrial Fibrillation: a feasibility study” which she ran within the York Trials Unit, (ISRCTN13671984; in press).
