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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.

Development of a Chinese medicine assessment measure: an interdisciplinary approach using the delphi method.
Authors: Authors: Schnyer RN, Conboy LA, Jacobson E, McKnight P, Goddard T, Moscatelli F, Legedza AT, Kerr C, Kaptchuk TJ, Wayne PM.
J Altern Complement Med
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Acupuncture for upper-extremity rehabilitation in chronic stroke: a randomized sham-controlled study.
Authors: Authors: Wayne PM, Krebs DE, Macklin EA, Schnyer R, Kaptchuk TJ, Parker SW, Scarborough DM, McGibbon CA, Schaechter JD, Stein J, Stason WB.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil
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Sociodemographic determinants of the utilization of specific types of complementary and alternative medicine: an analysis based on a nationally representative survey sample.
Authors: Authors: Conboy L, Patel S, Kaptchuk TJ, Gottlieb B, Eisenberg D, Acevedo-Garcia D.
J Altern Complement Med
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A randomized, controlled trial of acupuncture for chronic daily headache.
Authors: Authors: Coeytaux RR, Kaufman JS, Kaptchuk TJ, Chen W, Miller WC, Callahan LF, Mann JD.
Headache
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The placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome trials: a meta-analysis.
Authors: Authors: Patel SM, Stason WB, Legedza A, Ock SM, Kaptchuk TJ, Conboy L, Canenguez K, Park JK, Kelly E, Jacobson E, Kerr CE, Lembo AJ.
Neurogastroenterol Motil
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Viewpoint: what is the best and most ethical model for the relationship between mainstream and alternative medicine: opposition, integration, or pluralism?
Authors: Authors: Kaptchuk TJ, Miller FG.
Acad Med
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Can words hurt? Patient-provider interactions during invasive procedures.
Authors: Authors: Lang EV, Hatsiopoulou O, Koch T, Berbaum K, Lutgendorf S, Kettenmann E, Logan H, Kaptchuk TJ.
Pain
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Patient expectations in placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials.
Authors: Authors: Stone DA, Kerr CE, Jacobson E, Conboy LA, Kaptchuk TJ.
J Eval Clin Pract
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Advancing acupuncture research.
Authors: Authors: Ahn AC, Kaptchuk TJ.
Altern Ther Health Med
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A systematic study of acupuncture practice: acupoint usage in an outpatient setting in Beijing, China.
Authors: Authors: Napadow V, Liu J, Kaptchuk TJ.
Complement Ther Med
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