Executive Editor
Russell H. Greenfield, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Arizona
College of Medicine
Tucson, AZ

Fact Sheet Editor
Mary L. Hardy, MD
Director
Integrative Medicine
Ted Mann Center
University of California-Los Angeles
Co-Director
Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Programs
Venice Family Clinic
Venice, CA

Managing Editor
Leslie Hamlin

Authors
David Kiefer, MD Dr. Kiefer is a
Clinical Instructor, Family Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Arizona
Tucson
Adjunct Faculty
Bastyr University, Seattle

Dónal P. O'Mathúna, PhD Dr. O'Mathúna is
Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Decision-Making & Evidence
School of Nursing
Dublin City University

Maria Cayelli, MD
Family Medicine Specialist
Anderson, SC

• Hawthorn: An Herb that Helps Hypertension
• Performance-Enhancing Supplements: Adverse Events
• Ginkgo biloba and Dementia
• Clinical Briefs With Comments from Russell H. Greenfield, MD

• present evidence-based clinical analyses of commonly used alternative therapies
• make informed, evidence-based recommendations to clinicians about whether to consider using such therapies in practice
• describe and critique the objectives, methods, results and conclusions of useful, current, peer-reviewed clinical studies in alternative medicine as published in the scientific literature

Russell H. Greenfield, MD (executive editor), Mary L. Hardy, MD (fact sheet editor), Leslie Hamlin (managing editor) and David Kiefer, MD, Dónal P. O'Mathúna, PhD, and Maria Cayelli, MD, (authors) have no financial relationships with companies having ties to the material presented in this continuing education program.

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