 Adriane Fugh-Berman |
BiographyAdriane Fugh-Berman MD is an Associate Professor in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Master’s program (the first program in the field of CAM assessment to offer a basic sciences master's degree), Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Fugh-Berman's current research focuses on the rational use of both conventional and complementary therapies. She is the principal investigator of PharmedOut, a project to educate physicians about the influence that pharmaceutical companies have on prescribing. PharmedOut is funded by the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant program. Dr. Fugh-Berman also works with Dr. Sue Mulroney studying the physiological effects of botanicals including Taraxacum officinale and Glycyrrhiza glabra. Previously, Dr. Fugh-Berman worked with the Reproductive Toxicology Center, a non-profit organization that produces REPROTOX, a database that assesses the effects of more than 5000 drugs, dietary supplements, diseases, and other agents and conditions on pregnancy and fertility. Prior to that she was a medical officer at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (NIH). She was the medical director of two alternative health clinics in Washington, D.C. Dr. Fugh-Berman graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed internship in the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Dr. Fugh-Berman's column "Prescription for Change" appears in the Women's Health Activist, available on the website of the National Women’s Health Network, a non-profit, science-based advocacy group that is one of a handful of consumer groups in the U.S. that takes no money from pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Fugh-Berman is the author of the 5-Minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Clinical Consult (Lippincott, Williams and Williams, 2003), Alternative Medicine: What Works (Williams and Wilkins, 1997) and co-author of The National Women’s Health Network’s The Truth about Hormone Replacement Therapy (Prima/ Dr. Fugh-Berman has written many academic and consumer articles on women’s health; ghostwriting; pharmaceutical company influence on drug use;the medicalization of prevention;herb-drug interactions, and the risks and benefits of complementary and alternative therapies. An internationally known speaker, addressing both professional and consumer audiences, Dr. Fugh-Berman speaks about women's health issues; herb-drug interactions; risks and benefits of herbs and dietary supplements; menopause; pharmaceutical company influence on prescribing and other subjects. Reprints of the following articles available by clicking on the link:Other selected articles (available by request)Keenan NL, Mark S, Fugh-Berman A, Browne D, Kaczmarczyk J, Hunter C. Severity of menopausal symptoms and use of both conventional and complementary/ |
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