She is nationally known and respected in the field of integrative health and clinical research. By presidential appointment, she is a member of the Advisory Board on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health and was a member of the National Institutes for Health National Advisory Council on Complementary and Alternative Medicine from 1999-2003 and 2009-2011. She was also a member of the steering committee that initiated the National Policy Dialogue to Advance Integrated Care: “Finding Common Ground,” which resulted in creation of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium for which she served as executive director from 2005-2011. She is also a massage therapist and a medical sociologist.