Marc Micozzi

Marc S. Micozzi (born October 27, 1953) is a physician specializing in .
Micozzi served as a researcher and physician at the and Walter Reed Medical Center; and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He also was on the faculty for the Department of Pharmacology at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Micozzi was the founding editor-in-chief of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy. He also organized and edited the first US textbook in his field, Fundamentals of Complementary & Alternative Medicine, which was published in 1996. The fourth edition of the textbook was published in 2011. In 2010 the book, Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators, which he wrote with Donald McCown and Diane C. Reibel, was published.
Micozzi attained his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He completed his residency in anatomic pathology at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. Micozzi then completed a fellowship in Forensic Pathology at the University of Miami in 1984. He also received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
In 1986, Micozzi was appointed as associate director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and founding director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Micozzi founded the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine located in Bethesda, Maryland, and served there from 2002-2005. He also served as the founding director at the Thomas Jefferson University’s Center for Integrative Medicine in Philadelphia.
Micozzi is an opponent of public healthcare and believes that in pre-WWII Germany it evolved into policies that were later judged to be Nazi war crimes, such as forced sterilization, forced abortion and euthanasia.

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