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What is PCRM?
Doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate
and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion.
Prevention
PCRM promotes preventive medicine through innovative programs:
- PCRM has led the way for reforms of federal
nutrition policies.
- Our clinical research programs are breaking
new ground in diabetes, cancer, and other serious conditions.
- PCRM’s Cancer Project has provided
vital information to tens of thousands of people.
- The New Four Food Groups is PCRM’s
innovative proposal for a federal nutrition policy that puts a
new priority on health.
- Our public service announcement series features
medical experts on prevention and health.
Research Advocacy
We encourage higher standards for ethics and effectiveness
in research:
- We oppose unethical human experiments. While
great strides have been made in eliminating such experiments,
problems remain. For example, children are still given synthetic
growth hormone in experiments to make them taller, and both children
and adults are exposed to unnecessary new drugs which have toxic
effects.
- We promote alternatives to animal research.
We have worked to put a stop to gruesome experiments, such as
the military’s cat-shooting studies, DEA narcotics experiments,
and monkey self-mutilation projects. We also promote non-animal
methods in medical education. Currently, more than half of all
U.S. medical schools have dropped their animal labs for medical
students.
Organization
Founded in 1985, PCRM is a nonprofit organization
supported by physicians and laypersons who receive Good
Medicine each quarter. PCRM programs combine the efforts
of medical experts and grassroots individuals.
Leadership
PCRM president Neal
D. Barnard, M.D., is a nutrition researcher, a popular speaker,
and the author of Turn Off the Fat Genes; Foods That
Fight Pain; Eat Right, Live Longer; Food for Life; and other
books on preventive medicine. Dr. Neal
Barnard has conducted numerous studies of the ability of nutritional
interventions to treat high cholesterol levels, hormone imbalances,
diabetes, and other conditions. Dr.
Barnard is an adjunct associate professor of medicine at George
Washington University.
PCRM’s
advisory board includes 11 health care professionals from a broad
range of specialties.
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. Cornell
University
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D. The Cleveland Clinic
Suzanne Havala, Ph.D., M.S., R.D., L.D.N., F.A.D.A. The Vegetarian
Resource Group
Henry J. Heimlich, M.D., Sc.D. The Heimlich Institute
Lawrence Kushi, Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Virginia Messina, M.P.H., R.D. Nutrition Matters, Inc.
John McDougall, M.D. McDougall Program, St. Helena Hospital
Milton Mills, M.D. Gilead Medical Group
Myriam Parham, R.D., L.D., C.D.E. East Pasco Medical Center
William Roberts, M.D. Baylor Cardiovascular Institute
Andrew Weil, M.D. University of Arizona
Affiliations are listed for identification
only.
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