One of the original aims for the EC-funded project was to build an international authoritative network around CAM in cancer, led by a panel of experts in CAM research and/ or in cancer care with privileged contacts to cancer organizations.
This was achieved with the establishment of the CAM Cancer Collaboration, which today consists of an executive committee, a scientific coordinator, an editorial team for the website, and a network of official partners. The collaboration is managed by NAFKAM.
Members of the committee and editorial team are all experts in CAM and/or cancer care; they include researchers, clinicians, oncologists, and representatives of national cancer societies. Authors and reviewers are recruited from the Collaboration and beyond.
The CAM Cancer Collaboration welcomes other people to get involved in CAM Cancer, and to find out how you can become part of this exciting initiative.
Executive Committee
- Chair of the Executive Committee: Prof. Miek Jong, PhD and Director of the National Research Centre in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Vinjar Fonnebo MD, MSc Epidemiology, PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Head of Institute of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway - Thomas Cerny MD
Head of Oncology and Hematology Department, Kantonsspital St.Gallen; President Cancer Research Switzerland; President Oncosuisse, Switzerland (Swiss Cancer League) - Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, FMEdSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd
Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter Medical School, UK - Markus Horneber MD
Senior Physician, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany
Scientific Co-ordinator
- Barbara Wider Vellinga MA MA
NAFKAM, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and University of Exeter Medical School, UK
Editorial team
Senior Editor
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Barbara Wider Vellinga MA MA
NAFKAM, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Technical Editor
- Ola Lillenes BA
Head of Communications, NAFKAM and Chief Editor of Norway's national information service for complementary and alternative medicine), UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Responsible Editors
- Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, FMEdSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd
Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter Medical School, UK - Moshe Frenkel MD
Chair of The Israeli Society of Complementary Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA; Director of Integrative Oncology Service, Institute of Oncology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel - Markus Horneber MD
Senior Physician, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Karen Pilkington BPharm, MSc, PhD, MRPharmS, FHEA
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK - Marc Schlaeppi MD, MSc
Head Center for Integrative Medicine/Consultant Oncologist, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland
Pharmacology Editors
- Christoph Ritter PhD
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany - Janine Ziemann Dipl. Pharmacist
Research Fellow, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany
Official partners
- Anticancer Fund, Belgium
- Clinical Oncology Society of Australia
- Competence Centre for Complementary Medicine and Naturopathy, Germany
- Competence Network for Complementary Medicine in Oncology (KOKON), Germany
- Danish Cancer Society
- European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
- Institute of Complementary Medicine, Zurich, Switzerland
- Integrative Canadian Oncology (ICON) Research Initiative
- Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
- Supportive and Rehabilitation Oncology (ASORS) - German Cancer Society
- Swiss Cancer League
Support staff
- Leala Watson – literature searches
- Birgit Kraus – librarian
- Beni Somerfelt - proofreader
- Tine Lillegård Bergli - information specialist (NAFKAM)
Authors and reviewers
The following people have acted as authors on the CAM Cancer project.
- Katja Boehm PhD MSc Health Psychology
Research Fellow, University of Witten/Herdecke, Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative Medicine and Anthroposophy, Germany - Joke Bradt PhD, MT-BC
Associate Professor, Department of Creative Arts Therapies, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. - Italo M Cesari PhD
Emeritus Professor, Cancer Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Insitute of Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Helen Cooke MA, BSc
Integrative Health Advisor, Freelance, UK - Holger Cramer MSc PhD
Associate Professor (Privatdozent) and Research Director of the Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Gabriele Dennert MD, MSc (Public Health)
Professor (Public Health and Social Medicine), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Germany - Liene Dhooghe MSc, PhD
Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, FMEdSci, FSB, FRCP, FRCPEd
Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter Medical School, UK - Vinjar Fonnebo MD, MSc Epidemiology, PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Head of Institute of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway - Luc Geeraert MSc
Scientific writer, Freelance, Belgium - Arne Heyerick PhD
Program Manager Droia, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium - Markus Horneber MD
Senior Physician, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Rachel Jolliffe MSc
Research and Evaluation Officer, Penny Brohn Cancer Care, UK - Alexander Kalisch MD
Consultant Oncologist, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Karl Krumwiede PhD/Dr oec. troph.
Ecotrophologist (household economics, nutrition and food science), Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Xi Lin PhD
Research Assistant, Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China - Jianping Liu PhD
Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Beijing, China - Ava Lorenc PhD
Honorary Senior Research Associate, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, UK - Ellen McDonell ND
Clinician Scientist, Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre, Ottawa ON, Canada - Ann-Christine Moenaert MSc
Project Manager, Anticancer Fund, Brussels, Belgium - Thomas Ostermann PhD
Professor of Research Methods and Information Systems in Complementary Medicine, Faculty of Health, Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophical Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany - Karen Pilkington BPharm, MSc, PhD, MRPharmS, FHEA
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK - Peter Renner MD
Physician, Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Nürnberg, Germany - Klara Rombauts MSc
Project Manager, Anticancer Fund, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium - Helen Seers PhD
Research Fellow, Penny Brohn Cancer Care, UK - Michaela Sieh MD
Reliable Cancer Therapies, Belgium - Sarah Vadeboncoeur ND, BSc
Naturopathic Doctor, Ottawa Integrative Health Centre, Canada - Mirjam Wüsthof MD
University Cancer Centre, Hamburg, Germany
The following people have acted as reviewers on the CAM-Cancer project.
- Arends, Jann (Germany)
- Awang, Dennis (Canada)
- Balneaves, Lynda (Canada)
- Baum, Michael (UK)
- Benton, Deborah (USA)
- Biesalski, Hans (Germany)
- Boehm, Katja (Germany)
- Boon, Heather (Canada)
- Braun, Lesley (Australia)
- Brignall, Matt (USA)
- Cerny, Thomas (Switzerland)
- Christensen, Søren Brøgger (Denmark)
- Cooke, Helen (UK)
- van Dam, Frits (The Netherlands)
- Dennert, Gabriele (Germany)
- Dhooghe, Liene (Belgium)
- Elkins, Gary (USA)
- Ernst, Edzard (UK)
- Fønnebø, Vinjar (Norway)
- Green, Julia (UK)
- Horneber, Markus (Germany)
- Huber, Roman (Germany)
- Hübner, Jutta (Germany)
- Huntley, Alyson (UK)
- Jacobson, Judith (USA)
- Johannessen, Helle (Denmark)
- Jolliffe, Rachel (UK)
- Jungi, Felix (Switzerland)
- Kaemmerer, Ulrike (Germany)
- Kraft, Karin (Germany)
- Lampe, Hans (Germany)
- Langhorst, Jost (Germany)
- Lejeune, Stephane (Belgium)
- Liu, Jianping (China)
- Manuel-y-Keenoy, Begoña (Belgium)
- Marinakis, Christiana (Denmark)
- Meheus, Lydie (Belgium)
- Mukhtar, Hasan (USA)
- Musial, Frauke (Norway)
- Newman, Robert (USA)
- Olsen, Anja (Denmark)
- Oneschuk, Doreen (USA)
- Paludan-Müller, Christine (Denmark)
- Philipp, Thomas (Germany)
- Pilkington, Karen (UK)
- Rombauts, Klara (Belgium)
- Rossion, Inga (Germany)
- Rostock, Matthias (Switzerland)
- Scraub, Simon (France)
- Seely, Dugald (Canada)
- Seers, Helen (UK)
- Stacpoole, Peter (USA)
- Stapf, Adele (Germany)
- Stevinson, Clare (UK)
- Templeton, Arnoud (Switzerland)
- Tjoenneland, Anne (Denmark)
- Ulrich-Merzenich, Gudrun (Germany)
- Wardell, Diane (USA)
- Weitzman, Sheila (Canada)
