WHO Consultation on Proper Use of Traditional Medicine and Complementary Medicine by Consumers, Milan, Italy, 1-3 December 2003

Dr Abdullah M Al-Bedah, Supervisor, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dr Céspedes Valcarcel Alfredo Jacobo, Deputy Director for Drugs, National Center for Drugs Quality Control, Ministry of Public Health, La Habana, Cuba

Dr Maurizio Amigoni, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General of Health, Lombardy Region, Milano, Italy

Dr Layla Ashoor, Family Physician, Focal Point for CAM in Baharain, Ministry of Health, Karbabad, Kingdom of Bahrain

Mr Myat Kyaw U. Aung, Director, Department of Traditional Medicine, Yangon, Myanmar [Vice-Chairperson]

Dr Sassan Behjat, Coordinator, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Unit, Ministry of Health, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates [Chairperson]

Dr Ivo Bianchi, President, Italian Medical Association of Homotoxicology, Milano, Italy

Dr Gordon Brown, Head, Complementary Therapies Team, Department of Health, London, United Kingdom

Ms Anna Caizzi, Director of the Consumer Protection and Support to the Commercial System Structure, Directorate-General of Market, Fairs and Congresses, Lombardy Region, Milan, Italy

Dr Carmelita Canila, Country Officer for Philippines, Consumer International, Asia Pacific Office, Quezon City, Phillippines

Dr Vittorio Caprioglio, Director, Riza Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine, Milano, Italy

Ms Swee Seng Chu, Head, Chinese Proprietary Medicine Unit, Centre of Pharmaceutical Administration, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore

Dr Anchalee Chuthaputti, Senior Pharmacist, Institute of Thai Traditional Medicine, Department for Development of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthabusi, Thailand

Dr Dairine Dempsey, Herbal Medicines Project Manager, Irish Medicines Board, Dublin, Ireland

Dr Alessandro Discalzi, Medical Doctor, Directorate-General, Family and Social Solidarity, Lombardy Region, Milano, Italy

Professor Daniela Giachetti, Department of Environmental Sciences, Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Professor Aly Bayoumi Hammad, Head, Complementary Medicine Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Dr Hunua Francis Korbla Hlortsi-Akakpo, Registrar, Traditional Medicine Practice Council, Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana [Co-Rapporteur]

Professor Lidia Ilyenko, Chief Specialist, Alternative Treatment and Homeopathy, Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Dr Saliya Karymbaeva, Head, Drug Information Centre of Drug Department, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Professor Byung-Hee Koh, Hospital of Oriental Medicine, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Mr Nchele Dickson Lentsoane, Medicines Control Council, Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

Professor Emilio Minelli, WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, State University of Milan, Milano, Italy

Dr Fernando Ortega, Director of Integrated Community Development Department and Vice Dean of College of Health Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Ms Christine Qunta, Indigenous Knowledge Systems Trust, Pretoria, South Africa

Dr Jean Rene Randriasamimanana, Director, Agency of Medication, Ministry of Health, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Dr David S. Riley, University of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Dr Erus Sangiorgi, WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, State University of Milan, Italy

Ms Lucia Scrabbi, Planning Unit, Directorate-General oh Health, Lombardy Region, Milano, Italy

Dr Jaime Sin, Senior Medical and Health Officer, Chinese Medicine Division, Department of Health, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China

Mrs Wen Situ, Senior Researcher, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Professor Umberto Solimene, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, State University of Milan, Milano, Italy

Dr Pennapa Subcharoen, Deputy Director-General, Department for Development of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Dr Sergei Sur, Deputy Chief Inspector, State Inspection for Quality Control of Medicines, Ministry of Health, Kiev, Ukraine

Ms Sinead Tuite, Policy Analyst, Natural Health Products Directorate, Health Canada, Ontario, Canada [Co-Rapporteur]

Dr Robbert Van Haselen, Deputy Director of Research, The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Dr Hashim Ubale Yusufu, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Wuse Abuja, Nigeria

WHO Temporary Advisors

Ms Johanna Hök, Centre for Studies of Complementary Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health and Department of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ms Suzanne Schönström, Centre for Studies of Complementary Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health and Department of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

WHO Secretariat

Dr Jonathan Quick, Director, Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Xiaorui Zhang, Coordinator, Traditional Medicine (TRM), Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Rosario D’Alessio, Regional Advisor, THS/EV, WHO Regional Office for Americas, Washington DC, United States of America

Dr Ossy Kasilo, Regional Advisor, Traditional Medicine, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

Ms Yukiko Maruyama, Scientist, Traditional Medicine (TRM), Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Mr Raymond Tsai, Traditional Medicine (TRM), Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland