Marja Verhoef

Researcher

E-mail
mverhoef@ucalgary.ca

Work hours
20 %

Office
Tromso Science Park I, B2

Profile

Marja J.Verhoef, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. She received a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Calgary. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Complementary Medicine. Her research focuses on a wide range of factors related to complementary and alternative medicine (determinants of use, decision making, communication, information needs, meaning and importance of evidence and integration of CAM in conventional medicine. She is very interested in developing appropriate study designs to evaluate CAM and Integrative medicine, in particular in whole systems research. She is the Founding Director of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education and Research Network of Alberta,  Co-Chair of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for CAM Research and was the first President of the International Society of Complementary Medicine Research.