Josephine Briggs

Josephine P. Briggs is an American nephrologist and director emeritus of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (formerly the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine), an agency of the National Institutes of Health. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.[1]

Josephine P. Briggs
Born
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Early life and education

Briggs was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to a physicist father. She has two brothers. Her family moved to the United States when she was five, and she became an American citizen at age eleven. She excelled at math, physics and other sciences in high school.[2]

Briggs received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1966 in biology.[3] She received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1970. She then completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in clinical nephrology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.[3] She did her postdoc at Yale School of Medicine and worked at the University of Munich for six years as a research scientist.[4]

Career

In 1985 Briggs joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where she was a full professor in the department of nephrology from 1993 to 1997.[3] In 1997, she joined the National Institutes of Health as director of the Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.[5] In 2006 she became a senior scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,[3] a position she held until 2008 when she was appointed director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).[6] In October 2017, she retired from her position as director of the NCCIH; she was replaced by acting director David Shurtleff.[7]

Views

As of 2009 Briggs did not use alternative medicine in her practice.[8] In 2010, a NCCAM-funded study was published which found that echinacea was not effective in the treatment of the common cold. Briggs reacted to the study by saying that the center does not intend to fund any more research into echinacea.[9] In 2012, Briggs told The Washington Post that massage appeared to be an effective treatment for back pain.[10] In 2014, in response to an announcement that the US government would spend millions of dollars on studying pain in members of the military, Briggs said that "The need for non-drug treatment options [for pain] is a significant and urgent public health imperative".[11]

References
  1. "Josephine P. Briggs, M.D." National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
  2. "Member Spotlight: Josephine Briggs leading NIH alternative medicine program". American Association for the Advancement of Science. 21 January 2011. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  3. "Josephine P. Briggs, M.D. CV" (PDF). Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  4. Gewin, Virginia (21 February 2008). "Josephine Briggs, director, US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland". Nature. 451 (7181): 1026. doi:10.1038/nj7181-1026a.
  5. "Josephine P. Briggs, M.D." NCCIH website. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  6. "Josephine Briggs, M.D., Named Director of NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine". NCCIH website. 24 January 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  7. Collins, Francis (2017-08-10). "Statement on the retirement of Dr. Josie Briggs". National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Press release). Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  8. Brown, David (16 March 2009). "Scientists Speak Out Against Federal Funds for Research on Alternative Medicine". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  9. "Got a Cold? Study Says Echinacea Won't Help Much". Fox News. Associated Press. 21 December 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  10. Butler, Carolyn (30 July 2012). "Massage can have significant benefit for muscle pain and other ills, studies find". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  11. Preidt, Robert (25 September 2014). "U.S. pledges millions to study ways to ease soldiers' pain". CBS News. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
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