Edzard Ernst University of Exeter, UK
Complementary Medicine, 25 Victoria Park Road, Exeter EX2 4NT, UK
Tel: 01392 430802, Sec Tel: 01392 424989 Fax: 01392 427562
Email: Edzard.Ernst@pms.ac.uk Website: www.pms.ac.uk/compmed
Professor Ernst qualified as a physician in Germany where he also completed his MD and PhD theses. He was Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at Hannover Medical School (Germany) and Head of the PMR Department at the University of Vienna (Austria). He came to the University of Exeter in 1993 to establish the first Chair in Complementary Medicine. He is founder/Editor-in-Chief of two medical journals (FACT (‘Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies’) and ‘Perfusion’). His work has been awarded with 13 scientific prizes/awards and two Visiting Professorships. He served on the ‘Medicines Commission’ of the British ‘Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency’ (1994 – 2005) and on the ‘Scientific Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products’ of the ‘Irish Medicines Board’. In 1999 he took British nationality. Publications: >1000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature (http://www.pms.ac.uk/compmed/publications.htm), 39 books (translated into 5 languages), dozens of chapters. About five hundred invited international lectures. Supervision of ~50 MD or PhD theses.
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