David Rakel, MD - University of Wisconsin Medical School, Wisconsin
David Rakel, MD, is director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Integrative Medicine and assistant professor in the department on family medicine at the UW Medical School. A graduate of the two-year fellowship program in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center with Andrew Weil, MD, he is currently involved in two National Institutes of Health grants to study the placebo effect and to incorporate complementary and alternative therapy education into medical school curriculums. He is editor of another text for health care providers, Integrative Medicine, is board certified in family and holistic medicine, holds certification in sports medicine and interactive guided imagery, and sits on the board of the American Board of Holistic Medicine.

Nancy Faass, MSW, MPH

Nancy Faass, MSW, MPH, is a writer and editor in San Francisco and director of HealthWritersGroup.com She provides book, manuscript, and Web content development in health and medicine. Ms. Faass is coauthor/coeditor of seven books, including Complementary Medicine in Clinical Practice (2005) and Integrating Complementary Medicine into Health Systems, selected by Doody's Publishing review service as a 2001 Book-of-the-Year (5 Stars).