Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Kidney Health

Mayuree Tangkiatkumjai registered as a pharmacist in 2000 having graduated the previous year with a BSc in pharmacy from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She obtained MSc in clinical pharmacy from the same University and have worked as a lecturer in Faculty of Pharmacy, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand since 2002. She has taught about clinical skills, pharmaceutical care in chronic kidney disease, herbal and drug safety. With the sponsorship from the Royal Thai Government, she pursued my PhD studies in University of Nottingham, the UK and obtained a PhD in 2014. Her research interests are the use of herbal and dietary supplements in patients with chronic illnesses, pharmacovigilance, adverse events of medicines and herbal medicines, particularly nephrotoxicity, and pharmaceutical care in chronic kidney disease. Annalisa Casarin is a medical doctor, specialised in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Management with an interest in Complementary Medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture). She trained in Italy then worked as a Critical Care Clinical Fellow in Toronto (Canada), Cambridge (UK) and London (UK). After repatriating, she spent two and half years as a Pain Management Consultant in Italy using integrative medicine. In 2013 she returned to the UK as Research Fellow, she has been involved in the MoDUS RCT, the AWARE2 Trial, and a number of audits and observational trials. She appears in several peer reviewed publications. She is currently undertaking a part-time Masters in Public Health – Health Services Research at the University of Sheffield, UK, and works part-time for the NIHR Research Design Service, East of England, as a Research Adviser. Her main areas of interest are quantitative studies in Critical Care and Complementary Medicine and systematic reviews. Li-Chia Chen is a pharmacist trained in pharmacy practice research, specialising in evidence-based medicine, drug utilisation, pharmacoepidemiology, and health economics. She has a progressing and balanced professional and academic profile and an insightful scope of international teaching and research of pharmacy in higher education institutes. Dr Chen received foundation pharmacy qualification in Taiwan and trained in a prestigious Master Programme for clinical pharmacy, and soon escalated her career from a clinical pharmacist to Director of Pharmacy in hospitals. Sponsored by Taiwan Ministry of Education, she completed a PhD programme at the University of Manchester and then a post-doctoral research in the U.K., when she acquired expertise in the systematic review, meta-analysis, economic modelling and qualitative research. Thereafter, Dr Chen taught at a postgraduate programme in Taiwan as an Assistant Professor for all subjects of her expertise, and she also established skills in secondary healthcare database analysis. She took a lectureship at the University of Nottingham in 2010 and worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester since 2017. Dawn-Marie Walker is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton where she teaches statistics. As a psychologist by background, she is particularly interested in placebo for healing, which is where her interest in complementary medicines stemmed from. She is an extremely well published academic writer with numerous journal papers, chapters, and has edited a book previously. Her research method of choice is mixed methods, but also has conducted and published a number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.