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.
- 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 is also 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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