North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Special Issue

摘要

In September of 2010, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Human Factors and Medicine (HFM)-195, "Integrative Medicine Interventions for Military Personnel" began to form under the leadership of Jean Belard, MD, PhD, COL (ret), of the French Medical Corp, consisting of experts from several NATO countries and one guest representative from South Korea. The first meeting took place in March 2011 in Paris, France. In the subsequent years that followed, I had the distinct honor and pleasure of representing the United States Air Force. As a result of the retirement of COL (ret) Dr. Belard in August 2013, COL (Dr) Richard Petri, Jr. of the U.S. Army Medical Corps was named as the new chairperson of this distinguished committee on September 1, 2013. Under the auspices of COL (Dr) Petri, Jr., and with the consensus of the Committee, it was decided to accept the invitation from the Medical Acupuncture Journal to publish the first NATO report on integrative medicine (IM). This indeed is a distinct privilege-and perhaps an historic event-for both the Journal and NATO to publish an "Official Committee Report on Integrative Medicine."