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Claudia Witt, MD, MBA

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Professor and Director, Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine; University Hospital Zurich and University Zurich

Board Bio

Claudia Witt is a medical doctor, epidemiologist and research methodologist.

She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a focus on health care management. Her MBA thesis emphasized health economic evaluations. From May 2011 to April 2013 she served as the President of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR). From the outset, Dr. Witt’s career has been dedicated to patient-centered approaches to health care. Her research research has made substantial contributions to the evidence on efficacy, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and safety of acupuncture. She is committed to the training of future generations of integrative medicine physicians and researchers and developed the first postgraduate international summer school on clinical research methods in this field. Over the last 15 years, she has conducted a number of large trials with a total of over 50,000 patients. Her current research focus is on Comparative Effectiveness Research.