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Ted Jack Kaptchuk

Professor of Medicine
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Ted J. Kaptchuk is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard-wide Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.  He is also a professor of Global Health and Social Medicine.  

For more information, see his personal website.

Affiliation:

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Address: 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

As a leading figure in placebo studies, a scholar of East Asian medicine, and an academic authority on medical pluralism, Professor Kaptchuk's career has spanned multiple disciplines, drawing upon concepts, research designs and analytical methods from the humanities and basic and clinical and social sciences.

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Authors: Authors: Carvalho C, Kirsch I, Kaptchuk TJ.
Pain
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Informed consent and clinical trials: where is the placebo effect?
Authors: Authors: Blease CR, Bishop FL, Kaptchuk TJ.
BMJ
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Parental Attitudes About Placebo Use in Children.
Authors: Authors: Faria V, Kossowsky J, Petkov MP, Kaptchuk TJ, Kirsch I, Lebel A, Borsook D.
J Pediatr
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Open-label placebo treatment in chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Carvalho C, Caetano JM, Cunha L, Rebouta P, Kaptchuk TJ, Kirsch I.
Pain
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Genetic variation in catechol-O-methyltransferase modifies effects of clonidine treatment in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Hall KT, Kossowsky J, Oberlander TF, Kaptchuk TJ, Saul JP, Wyller VB, Fagermoen E, Sulheim D, Gjerstad J, Winger A, Mukamal KJ.
Pharmacogenomics J
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Psychiatrists' Attitudes Toward Non-Pharmacologic Factors Within the Context of Antidepressant Pharmacotherapy.
Authors: Authors: Vijapura S, Laferton JA, Mintz D, Kaptchuk TJ, Wolfe D.
Acad Psychiatry
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Establishing an Integrative Medicine Program Within an Academic Health Center: Essential Considerations.
Authors: Authors: Eisenberg DM, Kaptchuk TJ, Post DE, Hrbek AL, O'Connor BB, Osypiuk K, Wayne PM, Buring JE, Levy DB.
Acad Med
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Effect of EphB4/EphrinB2 reverse signal on angiogenesis induced by Xuefu Zhuyu Capsule () containing serum in human microvascular endothelial cell 1.
Authors: Authors: Zhang JS, Wang YZ, Hu YQ, Lin F, Gao D, Song J, Kaptchuk TJ, Chen KJ.
Chin J Integr Med
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Are open-Label Placebos Ethical? Informed Consent and Ethical Equivocations.
Authors: Authors: Blease C, Colloca L, Kaptchuk TJ.
Bioethics
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Catechol-O-methyltransferase association with hemoglobin A1c.
Authors: Authors: Hall KT, Jablonski KA, Chen L, Harden M, Tolkin BR, Kaptchuk TJ, Bray GA, Ridker PM, Florez JC, Mukamal KJ, Chasman DI.
Metabolism
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