Susan Gaylord, PhD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

SUSAN A. GAYLORD, Ph.D. is Director of the Program on Integrative Medicine and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where, since 1998, she has led the development of research, education, and clinical initiatives in complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine.  In 1995, she founded the multidisciplinary course “Principles and Practices of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM),” attended in the past ten years by over 600 health professions students and faculty.  She is also course director for two other UNC CAM medical school electives: “Fieldwork in Complementary and Alternative Medicine” and “Introduction to Integrative Medicine.”   She is principal investigator on a five-year NIH grant to develop and evaluate innovative CAM educational methodologies for health professionals.   She is the co-director of the UNC Mindfulness-based Stress and Pain Management program (with Douglas Mann, MD) and led the development of the interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Clinic in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.   She has played a leadership role in implementing the Planetree program (holistic, patient-centered care) at UNC Health Care, with its pilot program in the Rehabilitation Inpatient Unit, and is the chair of the Planetree Taskforce on CAM.  Research interests include studies of outcomes and mechanisms of action of specific complementary therapies – including homeopathy, mindfulness, craniosacral therapy and acupuncture; the role of health beliefs in determining care pathways; cancer therapeutics; geriatrics; and women’s health issues.