Short Biography

Dr. Ricardo Ghelman, MD, PhD, Professor at the Department of Medicine on Primary Healthcare of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Medical School (UFRJ) in the field of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM). Founding Chair of the Brazilian Academic Consortium for Integrative Health (CABSIN), Brazilian Chapter of ISCMR. He is a member of WHO's Expert Advisory TCIM Panel and TCIM Americas Network/PAHO/WHO. Pediatrician, pediatric oncologist and Ambassador of Society of Integrative Oncology (SIO) for Brazil. He obtained a Postdoctoral fellowship on Pain and Anthroposophic Medicine at Federal University of São Paulo. He is one of the pioneers of Integrative Pediatrics in Brazil, at the Department of Pediatric Oncology/University of São Paulo. President of the Department of Integrative Pediatrics of the São Paulo Pediatric Society. Dr Ghelman coordinates the Evidence Maps on Clinical Effectiveness of TCIM from CABSIN in collaboration with BIREME/PAHO and is member of the International Research Council on Anthroposophic Medicine, Goetheanum, Switzerland.