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November, 2009 - VOL. 15, NO. 6		November, 2009
Benjamin Kligler, MD: Advancing the Cause of Healing-oriented Medicine
Frank Lampe; Suzanne Snyder
Benjamin Kligler, MD, is vice chair of the Department of Integrative Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York. He is associate professor of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Research Director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing, an integrative medicine practice that opened in May 2000. Additionally, Dr Kligler is co-director of the Beth Israel Fellowship Program in Integrative Medicine, which accepted its first fellows for training in January 2002, and teaches in the Beth Israel Residency Program in Urban Family Practice. Dr Kligler is the author of Curriculum in Complementary Therapies: A Guide for the Medical Educator, a monograph distributed by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and co-editor of Integrative Medicine: Principles for Practice (McGraw-Hill, 2004). He is also co–editor in chief of the peer-reviewed journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. Dr Kligler is certified in Ericksonian hypnotherapy and acupuncture and incorporates these and the use of botanical medicines into his primary care practice at the Center for Health and Healing. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (ATHM): What were the influences in your life that led you to medicine and, specifically, to integrative medicine? Dr Kligler: Medicine in general was more or less ordained for me. My dad was a pediatrician. He had an office in our basement at home, and I grew up watching him take care of kids and families. I had periods when I thought that wasn’t what I would I do, but I know it was in my mind from when I was young.
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