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11 figures

Elmer Green

1917 – 2017

Menninger researcher who founded clinical biofeedback and self-regulation therapy.

United States·Psychology · Integrative Medicine

Herbert Benson

1935 – 2022

Documented the relaxation response at Harvard and made mind-body medicine measurable.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Medicine

Rachel Naomi Remen

b. 1938

Built The Healer's Art curriculum, taught in medical schools on four continents.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Education

Andrew Weil

b. 1942

Founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and trained a generation of fellows.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Education

Jon Kabat-Zinn

b. 1944

Created Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 1979; now standard in clinics worldwide.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Psychology

Gabor Maté

b. 1944

Physician of addiction and trauma; reframed illness as a response to lived adversity.

Canada·Integrative Medicine · Psychology

Candace Pert

1946 – 2013

Discovered the opiate receptor and argued the body is a single emotional-molecular network.

United States·Neuroscience · Integrative Medicine

Dean Ornish

b. 1953

Proved lifestyle change can reverse coronary artery disease; first such programme reimbursed by Medicare.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Medicine

David Eisenberg

b. 1955

His 1993 survey of unconventional therapy use forced US medicine to take the field seriously.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Public Health

Wayne Jonas

b. 1955

Directed the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and built the evidence agenda for whole-person care.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Public Health

Tieraona Low Dog

b. 1963

Herbalist-physician who shaped US botanical-medicine standards and education.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Nutrition