Bong Hyun Kim BSc, MSc, PhD
BH Kim received his degrees from Daegoo Hanny University, Daegoo, Korea,
where, after internship and training at Seoul Hana Oriental Medicine
Hospital, he became an instructor at the College of Oriental Medicine. Since
2004 he has been a Research Associate at Professor Il-Moo Chang’s
laboratory, Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University.
Dr Kim is a specialist in acupuncture therapy.
Seon-Ho Kim OMD, PhD
From 1990 Seon-Ho Kim was based at the College of Oriental Medicine of
Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, Korea. He is currently Adjunct Associate
Professor at the Department of SMC of the College of Oriental Medicine,
Kyung-Hee University, Director of Computer and Information, the Korean
Society of SCM and Director of Oriental Medical Clinic, Suwon, Korea.
He is Research Associate at Professor Il-Moo Chang’s laboratory, Seoul
National University and is an expert on Sasang Oriental Medicine, which is
a unique theory of traditional medicine.
Ann Mitchell (Simpson) BSc, PhD, MRPharmS
Since 1987 Ann Mitchell has worked on traditional medicine and conserva-
tion projects with the anthropologist Blanca de Corredor with different
indigenous groups such as Uitotos, Muinanes, Andokes, Yukuna-Matapí,
Tikuna and Cocama in the Caquetá medio region of the Colombian Amazon
rain forest. Ann is currently a teaching fellow at the Strathclyde Institute
of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, and a research fellow at St Mary’s
College, coordinating the Scottish–Colombia project at the Centre for the
Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP), University of St Andrews. She is
cofounder of the Colombian Asociación para la Investigación Científica,
Sociocultural y Ecológica (AICSE)’ and ‘Fundación Biofuturo, Ecuador’,
which strives to work with communities on recuperation and preservation of
the environment and recuperation of indigenous identity.
Gillian Scott BSc, PhD
Gillian Scott has an interest in plant species used as traditional medicines
by indigenous South African peoples, particularly the Khoi-khoi and San.
While employed at the then South African National Botanical Institute at
Kirstenbosch, she was instrumental in the establishment of TRAMED (a
traditional medicines programme for South Africa). She has worked since
1995 as a consultant in the field of African traditional medicines conserva-
tion, industrial development and application in formal healthcare. As an
honorary research associate in the Department of Botany, University of
Cape Town, she publishes regularly on aspects of traditional medicine
research.
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