1. Josephine P Briggs is an American nephrologist and director emeritus of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, an agency of the National Institutes of Health.
11 Facts About Josephine Briggs
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Josephine Briggs is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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Josephine Briggs's family moved to the United States when she was five, and she became an American citizen at age eleven.
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Josephine Briggs excelled at math, physics and other sciences in high school.
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Josephine Briggs received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1966 in biology.
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Josephine Briggs then completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in clinical nephrology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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Josephine Briggs did her postdoc at Yale School of Medicine and worked at the University of Munich for six years as a research scientist.
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In 1985 Josephine Briggs joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where she was a full professor in the department of nephrology from 1993 to 1997.
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Josephine Briggs reacted to the study by saying that the center does not intend to fund any more research into echinacea.
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In 2012, Josephine Briggs told The Washington Post that massage appeared to be an effective treatment for back pain.
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In 2014, in response to an announcement that the US government would spend millions of dollars on studying pain in members of the military, Josephine Briggs said that "The need for non-drug treatment options [for pain] is a significant and urgent public health imperative".