Kathi Kemper
Director
Ohio University
USA
Biography
Dr. Kathi J. Kemper was recruited to Ohio State in October 2012 from Wake Forest University, where she held the Caryl J. Guth Chair for Complementary and Integrative Medicine and served as the founding director of the Center for Integrative Medicine. She also was a professor in the departments of Social Science/Health Policy and Pediatrics and held appointments in Family and Community Medicine, Regenerative Medicine, Bioethics, the Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center. Before joining Wake Forest, Dr. Kemper was the founding director of the Center for Holistic Pediatric Education and Research at Boston Children's Hospital and associate professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kemper is recognized internationally as the leading authority on complementary therapies for children, and is frequently consulted by media, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, Readers' Digest, Redbook, First for Women and USA Today.
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