Viarnne Mischon speaks with the Director of Blackmores Institute, Leslie Braun, about the 2015 Blackmores Institute Symposium. Leslie is the Adjunct Associate Professor of Integrative Medicine within the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (University of Western Sydney), past Senior Research Fellow within the Monash/Alfred Psychiatric Research centre and a research pharmacist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. She is a member of numerous committees/boards including the Australian Therapeutic Goods Advisory Council (ATGAC) and Advisory Committee on Complementary Medicines (ACCM). Leslie is also the main author of the best-selling textbook ‘Herbs and Natural Supplements – an evidence based guide’, co-Editor-in-Chief of a new international journal by Elsevier entitled ‘ Advances in Integrative Medicine’, a regular columnist for the Australian Journal of Pharmacy (AJP), lecturer at Monash University and RMIT and regularly presents at national and international conferences.
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