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.

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