Steven Rosenzweig MD

Dr. Rosenzweig is Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine) at Jefferson Medical College and is Founding Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, (now the Myra-Brind Center for Integrative Medicine) of Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital. He is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. He has completed over 400 hours of postgraduate training in Anthroposophic medicine and is board prepared in this Western system of CAM. As Center Director, he has ample experience in administering an interdisciplinary initiative and a strong record of collaboration with multiple agencies within the university and hospital.

Dr. Rosenzweig has taught courses in the philosophy and epistemology of medicine at Jefferson since 1991, founded the first CAM course in 1994, and has directed the CAM educational program at Jefferson since that time. Dr. Rosenzweig provides clinical teaching to medical students and residents in integrative medicine and emergency medicine. He created and directed four Jefferson CME/CE conferences and has provided numerous other CME lectures within a variety of venues each year. For the past four years he has lectured within the student-run CAM elective at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Rosenzweig has demonstrated a strong capacity to create authentic and effective collaborations with CAM content experts for more than eight years. He has also demonstrated leadership in incorporating CAM information within the conventional medical community. Last year the Center for Integrative Medicine became a member of the Jefferson’s (NCI designated) Kimmel Cancer Center through educational, research, and clinical collaborations.

Dr. Rosenzweig has established the Jefferson Center as an important research base. He has recently been awarded funding by the NIH as Principal Investigator of a study of mistletoe therapy in lung cancer. His past research has related to health outcomes from mindfulness-based stress reduction and intgerative medicine programs, and the use of a botanical compress in emergency department setting.