Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jun J. Mao is the Chief of the Integrative Medicine Service and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as well as a professor of medicine and population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is a board-certified family physician and a licensed acupuncturist who combines western and eastern approaches to manage pain and symptoms in cancer patients.
Dr. Mao’s program of research focuses on investigating the effects, mechanisms, and integration of Complementary and Integrative Medicine for symptom management in cancer. He has received peer-reviewed funding from the National Institutes of Health and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute in the U.S. and has published over 220 peer-reviewed research manuscripts in top oncology journals such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA Oncology, Cancer, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Mao’s research has contributed to the evidence-based growth of acupuncture in cancer care. He is the past president of the Society for Integrative Oncology, an international organization with over 500 members from over 40 countries dedicated to the science and integration of evidence-based complementary approaches in conventional cancer care. He is the Co-President for the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR), an international research organization to advance the scientific understanding and clinical evidence of acupuncture.
Session 10: Integrative Medicine for Patients with Lung Cancer
Thursday, November 30, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM ET