Name:  Ch. Venugopal

Date of Birth:

Nationality: Indian

Address:  H.No.20-103/1,Sharada Nagar, Dilsukh Nagar, Hyderabad (A.P.) PIN-500 060, India

Occupation:Ayurvedic Physician

Educational Background:B.A.M.S.(1997)

Project Work:

Affiliation with an University / Institute (if any):
Govt. Ayurvedic Medical College, Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh
University of Health Sciences, Andra Pradesh

Publications:

Field of Research: "DRAVYAGUNA"

Specific Interests, Remarks and Requests: exchange on research topics.

Name:  Michael Reid Kreuzer

Age: 33

Nationality: American

Address:  The Buddhist Ayurveda-TCM Center, 3608 Mary Ellen NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111. (1) 505-298-0098 (both FAX and voice phone)

Occupation:Student and Practitioner of both Ayurveda and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine)

Educational Background:Completed 1005 hours of formal classroom study of East Indian Ayurvedic (primarily with Dr. Vasant Lad, also with Dr. Sunil Joshi, MD Ayur., Dr. David Frawley, O.M.D., and Maya Tiwari). Studied 440 hours of
Traditional Chinese Medicine Tui Na massage at the International Institute
of Chinese Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico (http://www.thuntek.net/iicm)

Project Work: Seen 313 patients (many with Dr. Lad, others in my own practice).  Developed an extensive Ayurvedic web site, currently the most popular destination on the Net for Ayurveda (http://www.ayurveda.com).

Affiliation with an University / Institute (if any):
Advanced Gurukula (3rd year) student at the Ayurvedic Institute (350 hour
program). First year student of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the
International Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Publications: "Is Ayurveda Really 'Hindu Medicine'? Or is it Buddhist as Well?" - A 60 page research paper on the influences of Buddhism on Ayurvedic Medicine.

Field of Research: Ayurvedic, Tibetan and Chinese Foot and Ear Reflexology.  Buddhism's influence of the medicine of China, India and Tibet.

Specific Interests, Remarks and Requests: exchange on research topics.

Name:  Shvetsow Mikhail

Age: 45

Nationality: Russian

Address:  Bolshevistskaya str.53, app.68, 614000 Perm, Russia

E-mail: sergi at permonline.ru

Occupation: Psychotherapist, Physician

Project Work: Etiology of diseases from the view-point of Tibetan medicine

Affiliation with an University / Institute (if any): Medical Institute, Perm

Publications: (in Russian) in the field of psychotherapy; articles in the "Perm Medical Journal"

Field of Research: The problem of pain; pregnancy; anemia

Specific Interests, Remarks and Requests: Communication with other researchers and exchange of articles and information on the ethiology of diseases in Tibetan medicine. Articles could be published in the "Perm Medical Journal".

Date of entry: 20.6.2002

Name: Wolfgang Brolley

Age: 1960

Nationality: American

Address: 7900 E. Greenlake Dr. N., Suite 204, Seattle WA 98103, USA

E-mail: wolfbrolley at yahoo.com

Occupation: Physiotherapy, Massage Therapy

Interests: Bonesetting, manual medicine, hands on healing, qi-gong, energy work

Project Work: Manual Medicine

Specific Interests, Remarks and Requests:
I am very interested in practitioners of traditional manual medicine - healers that use their hands to alleviate pain, cure dysfunctions, etc. I would deeply appreciate the chance to share and exchange skills with traditional practitioners of these kinds.

Date of entry: 20.6.2002

Name: Henry McCann, C.A., D.Ac., Dipl. Ac. & C.H.

Nationality: American

E-mail: purple-mist at att.net

Occupation: Professional practitioner of Oriental Medicine

Educational Background: B.A., B.M. (Oberlin College), Diploma of Oriental Medicine (New England School of Acupuncture), former Fulbright research fellow (Ryukyu University, Okinawa, Japan), Doctor of Acupuncture, Licensed Acupuncturist, Diplomate of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbo

Field Of Research: Clinical practice of Oriental Medicine, legal issues surrounding practice of indigenous medicine, integrative TCM and Western Medicines, cultural history of indigenous medicines

Interests: History of indigenous medicines, clinical modern use of Oriental Medicines

Date of entry: 20.6.2002

Name: Dr Anirban Ghosh

Age: 1972

Nationality: Indian

Address: 27, Mathur Sen Garden Lane, Kolkata-700006,West Bengal, India

E-mail: anirbanghosh1 at rediffmail.com

Occupation: Private medical practitioner

Educational Background: BAMS (Calcutta)

Interests: Want a job.

Note: I think there is no prospect for ayurvedic pratitioner. So please try to help those unemployed ayurvedic practitioner like me.Please give a chance to them for research work.

Date of entry: 02.5.2004

Name: Sue A. Shapiro, Ph.D.

Age: 1947

Nationality: American.

Address: 14 East 4th Street, NY, USA.

E-mail: sshapiro at psychoanalysis.net

Occupation: Clinical psychologist / psychoanalyst.

Project Work: Integrative understanding of psychological development and psychopathology.

Affiliation with an University / Institute (if any): New York University.

Publications: Contemporary Theories of Schizophrenia: A review and synthesis (1981) The Embodied analyst in the Victorian consulting room.

Educational Background: Ph.D. in Clinical psychology.

Interests: I am very interested in learning more about Tibetan Medicine's understanding of psychotic states and chronic characterological issues.

Date of entry: 02.12.2004

Name: Dr. B. Hari Kumar

Age: 1976

Nationality: Indian

Address: KNM NSS Ayurvedic Hospital,Vallamkulam, Kerala, India.

E-mail: doctorhari at hotmail dot com

Occupation: Medical superintendent, ayurvedic physician, teacher, international consultant

Project Work: Ayurvedic database

Affiliation with an University / Institute (if any): Vijnanakalavedi centre: www.vijnanakalavedi.org

Publications: In Malayalam journals, In World Ayurveda Congress 2002.

Educational Background: Ayurvedacharya BAMS from University of Kerala, training with senior traditional doctors.

Field Of Research: Ayurvedic traditions of Kerala.

Interests: Popularising traditional medicine.