Faculty: Certificate of Advanced Study in Complementary and Integrative Therapies

Stephanie Maxine Ross is a leading expert in Complementary and Integrative Therapy (CAM), a renowned educator, with expertise in Botanical Medicine, Clinical Aromatherapy and Nutrition. She is a pioneer in the vitally important area of bringing Complementary and Integrative Therapy (CAM) education to nurses, medical students, and to other healthcare professionals throughout the United States.

Stephanie Ross is Clinical Assistant Professor at Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health Professions in the Program of Complementary and Integrative Therapies. She is the expert Advisor in CAM and the research and development content specialist in curriculum and program development.  Professor Ross is also guest editor of the Clinical Herb and Nutrition Column for the peer-reviewed Holistic Nursing Practice Journal, and serves on their advisory board.

Professor Ross is a nationally recognized speaker on Botanical Medicine, Women’s Natural Health and Complementary and Integrative Therapy. She lectures extensively to nurses, and to other health care practitioners at conferences throughout the country. She serves on the advisory board for the Center For Frontier Sciences, and the speaker’s bureau for the American Botanical Council. In 1996, she was appointed Director of Botanical Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine where she initiated the first course in Herbal Medicine to be offered in a medical school in the United States. She was primary consultant in the development of the Botanical Medicine curriculum at the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, under the directorship of Andrew Weil, M.D. She has held the position as spokesperson and technical advisor for ABKIT, Inc., international distributors of CamoCare/Lichtwer Pharma USA located in New York City.

David Hircock works in the areas of fair and equitable trade and conservation, specializing in supply chain of herbal medicines and essential oils. He works with Indigenous peoples around the world highlighting human rights issues especially in areas of land tenure and equitable business.

He is the Advisor on natural resources to the President of Aveda, where he guides the use of ingredients by the Aveda Corporation.

He is a member of the Public and Private Alliance for Certification and Sustainable Marketing of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP), a project in Nepal that has increased incomes and employment for Nepal’s NTFP producers and promoted sustainable resource management. Mr. Hircock also is a member of an Advisory Panel of the Swiss Government to design a management tool for the Convention on Biological Biodiversity. He has worked with international scientific and agricultural research stations in the UK, India and South Africa. He works closely with several departments of the United Nations promoting entrepreneurship amongst Indigenous and traditional peoples, linked to equitable business and cultural preservation.

Mr. Hircock is a medical herbalist with extensive experience in complementary and alternative medicines and environmental sciences. He also is a pharmacist, specializing in pharmacognosy, the study of natural medicine. To read more about David Hircock, B.Pharm, MRPS, MNIMH (UK), please click here.