Samueli Institute is a non-profit research organization dedicated to investigating the safety, effectiveness and integration of healing-oriented practices and their role in medicine and health care.

The Institute supports research on natural products, nutrition and lifestyle, mind-body practices, complementary and traditional approaches to health care such as acupuncture, manual therapy, yoga and the placebo effect.

Samueli Institute also provides consultation and evaluation services to help health care organizations improve chronic pain care, create optimal healing environments, and deliver evidenced-based integrative practices to their patients and employees. The Institute’s research programs include:

-Integrative medicine
-Chronic pain
-Role of the brain and mind in healing
-Health research and education
-Optimal healing environments
-Health care policy
-Military and veterans health care

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