Dr Susan Wielandis

Dr Susan Wielandis is the Director of the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field, based at Georgetown University in the USA, where she is an adjunct Professor. As an epidemiologist, research methodologist, and information specialist, she has been a member of the Cochrane collaboration since 2001 and has led several Cochrane and non-Cochrane evidence synthesis projects, focusing primarily on non-pharmacological interventions such as acupuncture, yoga, and dietary supplements. She has expanded the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field into a global network supporting the production, interpretation, and dissemination of rigorous systematic reviews on the safety and effectiveness of traditional, complementary, and integrative interventions, and advocating for cross-cutting initiatives to develop approaches to evidence on traditional and complementary medicine. She is also a member of the GRADE Working Group, a member of the guidelines committee of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health and holds editorial positions on several systematic review and integrative medicine journals.