David Riley received his undergraduate degree in Music and Psychology from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1976. Prior to attending medical school he worked as a musician and chef in Europe and the United States. He graduated from the University of Utah medical school, is board certified in Internal Medicine, and has received post-graduate training in a variety of complementary therapies including: yoga and meditation, food and nutrition, cranial osteopathy, shamanism, homeopathy and other natural medicinal products. He is a clinical associate professor at the University of New Mexico medical school and has written chapters for a variety of medical textbooks. He worked as an editor for the WHO from 2003 - 2007 and is the editor-in-chief of the first and leading indexed medical journal in field of Integrative Medicine, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. He has worked and traveled extensively in North, Central and South American, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
His primary interest throughout his career in medicine has been to improve patient care through the implementation of Integrative Medicine - combining the best of conventional and complementary medicine. In 1992 he opened the Integrative Medicine Institute, a multi-specialty clinic, research center, and healthcare policy institute in Santa Fe, NM.
Dr. Riley has conducted or managed more than 50 clinical trials since 1992 ranging from international practice-based research networks to randomized controlled clinical trials. He has been a member of the CONSORT group and worked on systematic reviews with the Chalmer’s Research Group in Ottawa, Canada. In 1998 Dr. Riley founded Southwest Health Options, an independent practice association (IPA) managing the delivery of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for insured patients where he developed credentialing standards, managed peer review and coordinated service utilization. He has also worked on the development of coding solutions for Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Riley has consulted with international organizations and regulatory agencies including the FDA and the HPUS in the United States; the BfArM, WHO and ECHAMP in Europe; and DHCC in the Middle East. He is a board member of the HPCUS, a technical advisory body to the FDA and has consulted with other federal agencies. Dr. Riley is a member of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Advisory Council for Dubai Healthcare City and led a steering committee that developed licensure rules for integrative medicine providers. He has been on the scientific advisory boards of numerous academic centers, healthcare agencies and corporations.
Dr. Riley lectures and consults internationally on a range of healthcare issues including healthcare policy and regulation, education and research, and issues surrounding integrative medicine. He is married and currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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