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Professor George LewithProfessor George Lewith is a qualified physician and general practitioner who has recently retired from clinical practice. He has conducted research within primary care and integrated medicine for the last 30 years and now works at the University of Southampton where he leads an internationally respected research group.
He has combined his scientific interests, including over 200 primary research papers and a series of substantial grants from various charities and the major UK medical research funding bodies (MRC, Wellcome and NIHR), with a busy clinical practice for the last 30 years.
Primary care at Southampton is part of the NIHR national school for primary care research. Southampton Primary Care demonstrated research excellence in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) rating 85 percent of the research as internationally excellent or world-leading, the third best quality profile among primary care departments in the UK.
George Lewith’s research is focused on differentiating the specific from the non specific effects of treatment and developing models that will help to explain the patient perceived benefits of a variety of complementary medical interventions. He is currently interested in pain, arthritis and cancer as illness models investigating the effects of acupuncture, healing, homeopathy and herbal medicines.
Professor Harald WalachProfessor Harald Walach is director of the Institute of Transcultural Health Sciences at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) Germany. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in History and Theory of Science. His background is in evaluation of unconventional interventions including mindfulness research.
He has conducted a variety of clinical, experimental and epidemiological studies. Over the past five years he has been with the University of Northampton, UK, where he had built up and directed the MSc Program Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies.
He is the director of the European section of the Samueli Institute, coordinating the European efforts of the Institute’s “Brain, Mind and Healing” Program. He is the editor-in-chief of the Karger journal “Research in Complementary Medicine – Forschende Komplementärmedizin” and author of more than 100 peer -reviewed papers, several books and numerous book chapters.
