Marc Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., (born October 27, 1953) is a physician specializing in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), a medical anthropologist and an epidemiologist.
Micozzi served as a researcher and physician for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Walter Reed Medical Center; and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He also is an adjunct professor for the Department of Pharmacology at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Micozzi was the founding editor-in-chief of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy, CAM’s first scholarly journal. He also organized and edited the first US textbook in his field, Fundamentals of Complementary & Alternative Medicine, which was published in 1996. The fourth edition of the textbook was published in 2011.
Early life and education
Micozzi attained his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He completed his residency in anatomic pathology at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. Micozzi then completed a fellowship in Forensic Pathology at the University of Miami in 1984. Dr. Micozzi also received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
In 1986, Micozzi was appointed as associate director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and founding director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Micozzi founded the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine located in Bethesda, Maryland and served there from 2002-2005. He also served as the founding director at the Thomas Jefferson University’s Center for Integrative Medicine in Philadelphia.
Postmortem Change in Human and Animal Remains: A Systematic Approach (ISBN 9780398057473) (1991)
Fundamentals of Complementary & Integrative Medicine (ISBN 9781437705775), (1996, 2011) Editor/Author
Alternative and Complementary Treatment in Neurological Illness (ISBN 9780443065583) (2001) with Michael I. Weintraub
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation (ISBN 9780443065996) (2002) with Eric Leskowitz and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Women’s Health in Complementary and Integrative Medicine: A Clinical Guide (ISBN 0443066396) (2004) with Tieraona Low Dog
Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease (ISBN 9780323030021) (2004) with William H. Frishman and Michael I. Weintraub
Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine (ISBN 9780443068003) (2004) with Marilyn Schlitz PhD and Tina Amorok
Fundamentals and Integrative Medicine in Cancer Care and Prevention: Foundations and Evidence-based Interventions (ISBN 0826103057) (2006) Editor/Author
Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Pain Management (ISBN 9780826128744) (2006) with Michael I. Weintraub
The Practice of Integrative Medicine: A Legal and Operational Guide (ISBN 0826103073) (2006) with Michael H. Cohen JD MBA and Mary Ruggie Ph.D.
The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense (ISBN 1594772886) (2009) with Michael Jawer
Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators (ISBN 9780387094830) (2010) with Donald McCown and Diane K. Reibel
New World Mindfulness: From the Founding Fathers, Emerson, and Thoreau to Your Personal Practice (ISBN 1594774242) (2011) with Donald McCown
Vital Healing: Energy, Mind & Spirit in Traditional Medicines of India, Tibet and the Middle East (ISBN 9781848190474) (2011) with Donald McCown, MAMS, MSS
Celestial Healing: Energy, Mind & Spirit in Traditional Medicines of China and East and Southeast Asia (ISBN 9781848190450) (2011) with Kevin Ergil, Laurel S. Gabler and Kerry Palanjian
Energy Medicine East and West: A Natural History of Qi (ISBN 9780702035715) (2011) with David F. Mayor
Your Emotional Type: Finding the Treatments That Will Work for You (ISBN 9781594774317) (2011) coauthored with Michael Jawer.
Avicenna’s Medicine: A New Translation of the 11th-Century Canon with Practical Applications for Integrative Health Care (ISBN 1594774323) (2013) coauthored with Mones Abu-Asab, Ph.D. and Hakima Amri, Ph.D.
Overcoming Acute and Chronic Pain: Keys to Treatment Based on Your Emotional Type (ISBN 1620555638) (2017) coauthored with Sebhia Marie Dibra
Selected research and articles
Combined aneurysmal and occlusive arterial disease (1977) with Nemir P Jr; Circulation. 56(3):II 169-170
A case of pulmonary paragonimiasis in Mindanao, Philippines Southeast Asian (1980) with Ongchangco N.M.; Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 11: 67-70.
Childhood hypertension and academic standing in the Philippines (1980) American Journal of Public Health 70: 530-532
Skeletal tuberculosis, pelvic contraction and parturition (1982) American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58: 441-445
Rib lesions in chronic pulmonary tuberculosis (1984) with Kelley, M.A.; American Journal of Physical Anthropology 65: 381-386.
Chemoprevention of cancer. Implications for clinical pharmacology (1985) with Boone, C.W., Kelloff, G.A., Tangrea, J.A., Helzlsouer K.J., Taylor, P.R.; Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 25: 164-175
Implementation of health screening programs using ethnomedical resources (1986) Medical Anthropology 9 (3): 265-275
Studies of bioelectric resistance in middle-aged, overweight subjects (1986) with Helenius, M., Albanes, D.A., Micozzi, M.S., Taylor, P.R., Heinonen, O.P.; Human Biology 59: 271-279
Correlations of body mass indices with weight, stature, and body composition in men and women in NHANES I and II (1986) with Albanes, D.A., Jones, D.Y., Chumlea, W.C.; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 44: 725-731
Association between smoking and body weight in the U.S. population: Analysis of NHANES II (1987) With Albanes, D.A., Jones D.Y., Mattson, M.E.; American Journal of Public Health 77: 439-444
Cross-cultural correlation of childhood growth and adult breast cancer (1987) American Journal of Physical Anthropology 73 (4): 525-537
A survey of time-related factors in research on diet and cancer (1987) with Albanes, D.A., Schatzkin, A.G.; Journal of Chronic Diseases 40 (suppl. 2) 39S-44S
Adult stature and risk of cancer (1988) with Albanes, D.A., Jones, D.Y., Schatzkin, Taylor, P.R.; Cancer Research 48: 1658-1662
Carotenodermia in men with elevated carotenoid intake from foods and beta-carotene supplements (1988) with Brown, E.D., Taylor, P.R., Wolfe, E.; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 48: 1061-1064.
A prospective study of the development of breast cancer in 16,692 women with benign breast disease (1988) with Carter, C.L., Corle, K.D., Schatzkin, A., Taylor P.R.; American Journal of Epidemiology 128: 467-477
Alcohol consumption and breast cancer: A cross-national correlation study (1989) with Schatzkin, A.G., Piantadosi, S., Bartee, D; International Journal of Epidemiology 18 (1): 28-31.
Bowel function and breast cancer in U.S. women (1989) with Carter, C.L. Albanes, D.A., Taylor, P.E., Licitra, L.M.; American Journal of Public Health 79: 73-75
Plasma carotenoids in normal men after single ingestion of vegetables or purified beta-carotene (1989) with Brown, E.D., Craft, N.W., Bieri, J.G., Beecher, G.R. Edwards, B.K., Rose, A., Taylor, P.R., Smith, J.C.; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 49: 1258-65.
Relation of body size and composition to clinical biochemical and hematological indices in U.S. men and women (1989) with Stevens,R.; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 60: 1276-81
Carotenoid analysis of foods associated with a lower risk of cancer (1990) with Beecher, G.R., Taylor, P.R. Khachik, F.; Journal of the National Cancer Institute 82: 292-285
Age variations in the relation of body mass indices to estimates of body fat and muscle mass (1990) with Harris, T.M.; American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81: 375-379
Applications of anthropometry to epidemiologic studies of nutrition and cancer (1990) American Journal of Human Biology 2: 727-739
An overview of body weight of older persons, including the Impact of mortality (1991) with Cornoni-Huntley, J.C., Harris, T.B., Everett, D.F., Albanes, D., Micozzi, M.S., Miles, T., Feldman, J.J.; Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 44: 743-753
When the patient is Abraham Lincoln (1991) Caduceus 7: 34-47
Lincoln, Kennedy, and the Autopsy (1992) JAMA 267(20): 2791
Is Cortisol the Aging Hormone? (1998) with Kenneth E Seaton; Journal of Advancement in Medicine 11(2):73
The Nazi War on Cancer (1999) New England Journal of Medicine 341(5):380
Culture, anthropology, and the return of "complementary medicine" (Dec 2002) Medical Anthropology Quarterly 16(4) 398-403 PMID 12500609
Integrative Medicine in Pharmacy and Therapeutics, P&T (October 2003) Journal for Managed Care and Hospital Formulary Management, 28(10): 666-672.
Nature Cures; Now Congress Cares (2003) Health Affairs 22(3):243
Alternative or complementary medicine: opportunities for integration (May/June 2003) SkinMed Dermatology for the Clinician 2(3):154-155 PMID 14673289
Integrative Medicine in Contemporary Healthcare- Part I (2005) Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal 4(5): 34-49
Integrative Medicine in Contemporary Healthcare- Part II (2006) Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal 5(2): 24-28
Confronting the Worldwide Epidemic of Vitamin D Deficiency (October/November 2008) NutriNews, Douglas Laboratories, Atrium Innovations, Pittsburgh PA pp. 1–7
Chiropractic management of low back pain and low back-related leg complaints: a literature synthesis (November/December 2008) with Lawrence DJ, Meeker W, Branson R, Bronfort G, Cates JR, Haas M, Haneline M, Updyke W, Mootz R, Triano JJ, Hawk C.; Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 31(9)659-674 PMID 19028250
Common herbal remedies, adverse reactions, and dermatologic effects (January/February 2010) with Pribitkin EA.; SkinMed Dermatology for the Clinician 8(1):30-36 PMID 20839422
