TY - JOUR
T1 - Bridging the two worlds
T2 - worldwide reflections on the 2024 Hong Kong SAR/PolyU Conference
AU - Yeung, Jerry Wing Fai
AU - Bromley, Afua
AU - Chae, Younbyoung
AU - Cheung, Denise Shuk Ting
AU - Conboy, Lisa
AU - Graca, Sandro
AU - Levett, Kate
AU - Lumiere, Kathleen
AU - Schnyer, Rosa
AU - Sparrow, Kristen
AU - Tseng, Liming
AU - Yoo, John
AU - Zhang, Yu Qing
AU - Citkovitz, Claudia
PY - 2024/12/1
Y1 - 2024/12/1
N2 - “On November 22, 2003, delegates of the 10th Annual Symposium on Complementary Healthcare packed into the main lecture hall of the Royal College of Physicians in London to take a momentous step in the history of complementary medicine research.”1 With these words, Professor Marja Verhoef described the birth of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR), of which she was to become the founding president. What took place almost exactly 20 years ago in cold, rainy London was nothing short of a revolution: the founding of the first international professional society of researchers working in the emerging scholarly field of traditional and complementary medicine. These scholars were committed to rigorously investigating the wide range of therapeutic approaches that fell outside of conventional biomedicine's boundaries—and to innovating new research approaches, where existing methods proved insufficient.
AB - “On November 22, 2003, delegates of the 10th Annual Symposium on Complementary Healthcare packed into the main lecture hall of the Royal College of Physicians in London to take a momentous step in the history of complementary medicine research.”1 With these words, Professor Marja Verhoef described the birth of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR), of which she was to become the founding president. What took place almost exactly 20 years ago in cold, rainy London was nothing short of a revolution: the founding of the first international professional society of researchers working in the emerging scholarly field of traditional and complementary medicine. These scholars were committed to rigorously investigating the wide range of therapeutic approaches that fell outside of conventional biomedicine's boundaries—and to innovating new research approaches, where existing methods proved insufficient.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85209240800&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1089/jicm.2024.0819
DO - 10.1089/jicm.2024.0819
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85209240800
SN - 2768-3605
VL - 30
SP - 1125
EP - 1129
JO - Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
JF - Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
IS - 12
ER -