Mission
The Osher Center for Integrative Health is a collaboration between MassGeneral Brigham founding member, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.
Our Mission is: To advance ‘whole person health,’ encompassing mind, body, spirit, and community, through pioneering research, education, and clinical care.
Our Vision: A unified and integrated healthcare system that treats, heals, and empowers all people to lead their best lives on a healthy planet.
To achieve our mission and vision, we focus on four key areas:
- Researching innovative approaches to whole person health
- Delivering compassionate care through evidence-based integrative treatments and services
- Educating the next generation of healthcare providers and researchers to advance a unified and equitable healthcare system and improve people’s lives
- Curating and sharing principles and practices of whole person health for all people.
By pursuing the above approach, the Osher Center is committed to facilitating a new model of wellness and healing. See our current 5-Year Strategic Plan (2021)
Our Center
Five-Year Strategic Plan (2021)
What is Integrative Medicine?
A Center ‘Without Walls’
History
Leadership
Peter Wayne, PhD, Center Director
Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Education Director
Gloria Yeh, MD, Director of Clinical Research
Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH, Director of Nutrition and Supplements Research
Andrew Ahn, MD, Core Leader, Leveraging Technology for Integrative Health
Matthew H Kowalski, DC, Associate Clinical Director
Aterah Nusrat, MSc, DIC, Snr. Program Manager
Director of Programming in Integrative Medicine and Planetary Health
Kathleen Kehoe, MS, Practice Administrator
Advisory Boards
Financial and Administrative Oversight Committee
Advisory Committee
The Osher Collaborative
The Osher Collaborative for Integrative Health comprises an international group of seven academic Centers funded by The Bernard Osher Foundation to study, teach, and practice integrative medicine.
- University of California, San Francisco (endowed in 1998)
- Harvard University (2001)
- Karolinska Institutet (2005)
- Northwestern University (2014)
- Vanderbilt University (2014)
- University of Miami (2017)
- University of Washington (2018)
- University of Cincinnati (2021)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (2021)
- University of Utah (2022)
- University of Vermont (2022)
The eleven programs possess both unique and shared strengths in the areas of research, education, and clinical care. The Osher Collaborative advances the field of integrative medicine through the sharing of knowledge, resources, and best practices.
