Benjamin Kligler, MD
Dr. Kligler is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Albert
Einstein College of Medicine and teaches in the Beth Israel Residency
Program in Urban Family Practice. He is the author of Curriculum
in Complementary Therapies: A Guide for the Medical Educator, which
is currently distributed through the Society of Teachers of Family
Medicine. Dr. Kligler is certified in acupuncture and Ericksonian
Hypnotherapy, and incorporates these and the use of botanical medicines
into his practice. He is the Associate Medical Director of the Center
for Health and Healing and is also co-director of the Beth Israel
Fellowship Program in Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Kligler's primary academic interest is in the development of
curriculum for physicians-in-training in the area of complementary
and alternative medicine. He is the former Co-chair of the Alternative
Medicine Interest Group in the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine,
and is a founding member and organizer of the American Association
of Medical Colleges Special Interest Group on Alternative Medicine.
Both of these groups are currently working to make teaching on alternative
medicine a required part of medical education in the United States.
Dr. Kligler is currently working with Dr. Roberta Lee and a number
of other Center for Health and Healing clinicians on a textbook
of Integrative Medicine which will be published by McGraw-Hill in
2003.
Content last modified on Aug 26, 2005
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