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FEATURED AFFILIATES
Founded in 1985, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.
 PCRM founder Neal D. Barnard, M.D., is a nutrition researcher, author, and health advocate. As an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Barnard conducts studies on the role of nutrition in diabetes, obesity, and lipid management, among other health issues. His most recent clinical trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health, established the value of a novel dietary program for type 2 diabetes and set a new standard for dietary approaches to this increasingly common condition.
Dr. Barnard’s articles have appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the American Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Scientific American, the American Journal of Cardiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Lancet Oncology, Preventive Medicine, and many other scientific and medical journals. Dr. Barnard is the editor-in-chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians and the author of more than a dozen books for lay audiences.
In 1985, Dr. Barnard established the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit organization advocating for preventive medicine and higher ethical standards in research. He later established The Cancer Project, a nonprofit organization providing nutritional services for cancer patients and survivors and public education geared toward prevention, and the Washington Center for Clinical Research, an organization dedicated to studies of diet and health.
Growing up in Fargo, N.D., his extended family includes both doctors and cattle ranchers, two groups that are increasingly butting heads over America’s health policies. Dr. Barnard’s scientific approach aims to shed new light on these important issues.
The Health Medicine Forum is a group of health practitioners from all disciplines who are dedicated to the collaborative exploration, practice and advancement of the emerging discipline of Health Medicine. Health Medicine Forum serves to inform, educate and connect those interested in a holistic and integrative approach to medicine, one that is focused on prevention and person-centered care.
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 Len Saputo, M.D., is a graduate of Duke University Medical School and is
board certified in internal medicine. He has been in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than
30 years. Over the past decade, Dr. Saputo has also played a leadership role in the development of an integrative,
holistic model of practice that has come to be known as “Health Medicine.” In 1995 he founded the Health
Medicine Forum, a nonprofit educational foundation, which has sponsored more than 300 public and professional
events, including monthly presentations, workshops, and conferences featuring internationally renowned
speakers. In 2001 Dr. Saputo co-founded the Health Medicine Institute, an integrative medicine center in
Lafayette, California, that is applying the model of Health Medicine in a clinical setting. He is the Institute’s
medical director, and it is his vision that has brought this model into clinical practice.
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