History
“ Center faculty have extensive experience conducting studies of effectiveness.”The Weill Cornell Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, which was approved by the Board of Trustees of Cornell University in June 2000 as a university-wide center, was designed to initiate, develop and expand clinical and basic research and provide professional and patient education in complementary and integrative therapies.
Based at Weill Cornell Medical College, the Center spans different disciplines, departments and colleges at the New York, Westchester and Ithaca campuses of Cornell University.
The Center has brought together clinical epidemiologists, pharmacologists, phytochemists, plant biologists, behavioral scientists, biostatisticians, medical informatics experts, clinical investigators and complementary and integrative practitioners in an effort to better understand the wide use of botanicals and a wide variety of therapies and practices grouped under the rubric of mind-body medicine. Center faculty have extensive experience conducting studies of effectiveness, either as clinical trials or as the outcomes of patients treated in clinical practice.
Building on the rich multicultural environment of New York City, the Center works to broaden understand from the experiences of people from many ethnic and cultural backgrounds, developing new knowledge about approaches widely termed Complementary and Alternative Medicine. We use the term Complementary and Integrative Medicine, because it is a complement to evidence-based medicine.
The Center also works in collaboration with practitioners who incorporate complementary and integrative techniques into patient care, identifying promising approaches and designing pilot studies or full-scale evaluations to assess their effectiveness.
