קורות חיים, פירסומים ומחקרים מדעיים

B.    Positions and Honors

2005 – Current         Director of Integrative Medicine / Head of Section of Integrative Oncology at the Davidoff Comprehensive Cancer Center, Rabin Medical Center, Israel.

2005 – Current         Chairperson, Israel Cancer Association’s Advisory Board for Integrative Cancer Care.

2005 – Current         Course Director, Integrative Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

2003 – Current         Member, Medical Advisory Board of InfoPOEMs.

2004 – 2007              Deputy Head, Recanati Center for Medicine & Research, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Israel (Affiliated with Tel-Aviv University).

2001 – 2005              Editor-in-Chief, “Audio Consult in Integrative Medicine” and “Integrative Medicine Select” (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Oakstone Publishing).

2000 – 2004              Research Assistant Professor, Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

2003 – 2004              Co-director, University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine NIH T32 Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

2003 – 2004              Course Director, Advanced Issues in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research, University of Arizona, College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, USA.

1998 – 2000              Clinical Fellow (PG V-VI), Program in Integrative Medicine, Arizona Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (Director: Andrew Weil, MD).

1997 – 1998              Attending Physician, Department of Medicine “H”, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel (Affiliated with Tel-Aviv University).

1993 – 1997              Resident / Chief Resident, Division of Medicine, Hadassah University Medical Center (Ein Kerem), Jerusalem, Israel.

1992 – 1993              Internship, Hadassah University Medical Center (Ein Kerem), Jerusalem, Israel.

1. C.   Public Service and Volunteer Work

2005 – Current         Attending physician, Physicians for Human Rights Israel.

2005 – Current         Secretary General, Israeli Ministry of Health Committee on Legislation and Regulation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Israel.

2008 – 2010              Member, Israel Council for Higher Education Committee on Academic Education of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Israel.

2005 – 2011              Attending physician in two underserved clinics (Ramat Israel & Givaat Aliya – both in Tel-Aviv Yaffo), Clalit.

1982 – 2009              Israel Defense Forces – Active Duty (1982-85), Reserve (1985-2009) (Rank: Captain).

1. D.   Scholarships, Honors and Awards

2007               Certificate – Medical Hypnosis,Israel (LN #664).

2004               Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 5th Edition.

2003               The NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine – Member of the review panel for Developmental Centers for Research.

2003               The National Academies, Institute of Medicine – Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public. Invited presentation.

2003               Dissertation award nominee – Society Medical Decision Making.

1998               America-Israel Physician Fellowship Scholarship.

1997               Board Certification in Internal Medicine, Israel (LN #15629).

1993               Permanent License to practice medicine in Israel (LN #24188).

1993               The Kornfeld Award for MD Thesis – The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School.

1991               Student Fellowship, Howard L. Weiner, MD's Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Lab., Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA.

 E.   Professional Memberships   Society for Integrative Oncology, Israeli Society for Complementary Medicine, Israeli Society for Medical Hypnosis, Evaluation Group for Analysis of Data (EGAD).

F.    Selected PublicationsTheses and Dissertation:

• PhD Dissertation (2004) – How good are we? A meta-analytic study of effect sizes in medicine.
• MA Thesis (2001) – Critical appraisal of quality as a variable in meta-analyses / systematic reviews.
• MD Thesis (1993) – The physicochemical properties of the intervertebral discs vs. the lumbar vertebrae.

 Published (selected):

• Duncan B. Shen K. Zou LP. Han TL. Lu ZL. Zheng H. Walsh M. Venker C. Su Y. Schnyer R. Caspi O. Evaluating intense rehabilitative therapies with and without acupuncture for children with cerebral palsy: a randomized controlled trial. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 2012;93:808-15.
• Izabella L, Caspi O, Miller A. Participatory Medicine and patient empowerment towards implementation of Personalized Healthcare in Multiple Sclerosis. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. 2012;12:343-52.
• Caspi O, Shalom T, Holexa J. Informed consent in complementary and alternative medicine. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2011; Article ID 170793 doi:10.1093/ecam/nep032.
• Ritenbaugh C, Aickin M, Bradley R, Caspi O, Grimsgaard S, Musial F. Whole systems research becomes real: new results and next steps. Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine. 2010;16:131-7.
• Wu Y, Jin Z, Li K, Lu ZL, Wong V, Han TL, Zheng H, Caspi O, Liu G, Zeng YW, Zou LP. Functional magnetic resonance imaging activation of the brain in children: real acupoint versus sham acupoint. Journal of Child Neurology. 2010;25:849-55.
• Caspi O, Baranovitch O. When science meets medical tradition: what is needed for a dialogue on integrative medicine? Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine. 2009;15:579-83.
• Wu Y, Zou LP, Han TL, Duncan B, Zheng H, Caspi O, Wong V, Su Y, Shen Kl. Randomized controlled trial of traditional Chinese medicine (acupuncture and tuina) in cerebral palsy- Part 1: Any increase in seizure in Integrated acupuncture and rehabilitation group versus rehabilitation group? Journal of Alternative &Complementary Medicine. 2008;14:1005-9.
• Wu Y, Jin Z, Li K, Lu ZL, Wong V, Han TL, Zheng H, Caspi O, Liu G, Zeng YW, Zou LP. Effect of acupuncture on the brain in children with spastic cerebral palsy using functional neuroimaging (FMRI). Journal of Child Neurology. 2008;23:1267-74.
• Argash O, Caspi O. Touching cancer: Shiatsu as a complementary treatment to support cancer patients. Harefuah. 2008;147:707-11, 750, 749.
• Koithan M, Bell IR, Caspi O, Ferro L, Brown V. Patients’ experiences and perceptions of a consultative model integrative medicine clinic: A qualitative study. Integrative Cancer Therapies 2007;6:174-84.
• Caspi O, Duncan B, Han TL, Zou LP. MRI findings and cerebral palsy. JAMA 2007;297:466.
• Caspi O, Burleson KO. Methodological challenges in meditation research. Advances in Mind-Body Medicine. 2007;22:36-43.
• Schiff E, Gurgevich S, Caspi O. Potential synergism between hypnosis and acupuncture – Is the whole more than the sum of its parts? Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine: eCAM. 2007;4:233-40.
• Caspi O, McKnight P, Kruse L, Brown V, Figueredo AJ, Sechrest L. Evidence-based medicine: Discrepancy between perceived competence and actual performance among graduating medical students. Medical Teacher 2006;28:318-25.
• Herman PM, Craig BM, Caspi O. Is complementary and alternative medicine cost-effective? A systematic review. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2005:5;11.
• Caspi O, Holexa J. Lack of standards in informed consent in complementary and alternative medicine. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 2005;13:123-30.
• Caspi O, Stellhorn C, Connor M. Sham in CAM: The anatomy and physiology of control and sham in complementary and alternative medicine research. Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine 2004;1:233-40.
• Caspi O, Bell IR. One size does not fit all: Aptitude x Treatment Interaction (ATI) as a conceptual framework for CAM outcome research. Part I – What is ATI research? J Alt and Comp Med 2004;10:580-6.
• Caspi O, Bell IR. One size does not fit all: Aptitude x Treatment Interaction (ATI) as a conceptual framework for CAM outcome research. Part II – Research designs and their applications. J Alt and Comp Med 2004;10:698-705.
• Bell IR, Lewis DA II, Brooks AJ, Schwartz GE, Lewis SE, Caspi O, Cunningham V, Baldwin CM. Individual differences in response to randomly-assigned active individualized homeopathic and placebo treatment in fibromyalgia: Implications of a double-blind optional crossover design. J Alt and Comp Med 2004;10:269-83.
• Bell IR, Lewis DA II, Schwartz GE, Lewis SE, Caspi O, Scott A, Brooks AJ, Baldwin CM.  Electroencephalographic cordance patterns distinguish exceptional clinical responders with fibromyalgia to individualized homeopathic medicines. J Alt and Comp Med 2004;10:285-99.
• Caspi O. The Cochrane Column: Melatonin for the prevention and treatment of jet lag. Alt Therapies Health & Medicine 2004;10:74-8.
• Caspi O, Koithan MS, Criddle MW. Alternative medicine or “alternative” patients: A qualitative study of patient-oriented decision-making processes with respect to complementary and alternative medicine. Med Decision Making 2004;24:64-79.
• Bell IR, Cunningham V, Caspi O, Meek P, Ferro L.  Development and validation of a new global well-being outcomes rating scale for integrative medicine research. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004;4:1
• Caspi O, Sechrest L, Pitluck HC, Marshall CL, Bell IR, Nichter M. On the definition of complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine: societal mega-stereotypes vs. the patients’ perspectives. Alt Therapies Health & Medicine 2003;9:58-62.
• Caspi O. The JNC 7 hypertension guidelines. JAMA. 2003;290:1313.
• Caspi O, Rowland-Seymour A. Gingko: smart pill or not? Journal of Family Practice. 2003;52:393-4.
• Caspi O, Schiff E. Missing the (acu)point. Chest. 2003;123:1312-3.
• Shapiro SL, Figueredo AJ, Caspi O, Bootzin R, Schwartz G, Lopez AM. Going Quasi: The premature disclosure effect in a randomized clinical trial. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2002;605-21.
• Caspi O, Bootzin RR. Evaluating how placebos produce change: logical and causal traps and understanding cognitive explanatory mechanisms. Evaluation The Health Professions. 2002;25:436-64.
• Caspi O. Clinical decision-making _¯¯ when science is uncertain. Fertility & Sterility. 2002;78:891.
• Bell IR, Caspi O, Maizes V. Integrative medicine: not a carte blanche for untested nonsense. Arch Internal Medicine. 2002;162:1781-2.
• Caspi O. The whole is more than the sum of its parts: a systems approach to evaluating CAM. The Integrative Medicine Consult. 2002;4:49-52.
• Caspi O. When are medication side effects due to the nocebo phenomenon? JAMA 2002;287:2502.
• Bell IR, Caspi O, Schwartz GRE, Grant KL, Rychener D, Gaudet TW, Maizes V, Weil AT. Integrative medicine and systematic outcomes research: issues in the emergence of a new model for primary health care. Arch Int Med. 2002;162:133-40.
• Caspi O, Lutz R, Criddle M. Integrative Medicine – Implications for the practice of healing-oriented gastroenterology. Clinical Perspectives in Gastroenterology. 2001;4:359-62.
• Caspi O. Possible danger of integrating CAM in medical education. Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:1680-1.
• Caspi O, Millen C, Sechrest L. Integrity and research: Introducing the concept of dual blindness. How blind are double-blind clinical trials in alternative medicine? J Alt Comp Med. 2000;6:493-8.
• Caspi O. Integrated medicine: orthodox meets alternative. Bringing complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into mainstream is not integration. BMJ 2001;322:168.
• Caspi O, Bell IR, Rychener D, Gaudet TW, Weil AT. The tower of Babel: communication and medicine. An essay on medical education and complementary-alternative medicine. Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:3193-5. 

Book Chapters (selected):

• Caspi O. Integrative Medicine and Medical Education in the 21st Century: Personalizing Medicine While Globalizing Education. The Fifth Medical School In the Galilee – Additional School or New School? An Opportunity Not to be Missed! In: Cohen IR, Ziv A. (Eds.) Medical Education in the 21st Century. The New Medical School in the Galilee. New Paradigms, Innovations and Challenges. The National Institute for Health Policy Research; 2010.
• Caspi O. Evidence-based medicine and clinical decision-making. In: Rakel D. (Ed.) Integrated Medicine. 2^nd edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 2006.
• Caspi O, Maizes V, Bell IR. Integration of clinical practice and medical training with complementary and alternative and evidence-based medicine. In: Spencer JW, Jacobs JJ (Ed.) Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Evidence Based Approach. St. Louis, MI: Mosby; 2003.
• Caspi O. Activating the healing response. In: Rakel D. (Ed.) Integrated Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 2003.
• Bootzin RR, Caspi O. Explanatory mechanisms for placebo effects: Cognition, personality, and social learning.  In: Kleinman A., Guess H. (Eds.) The Science Of The Placebo. London: BMJ Books, 2002.