Hello,

After eight months of meaning to get around to Joining IASTAM, today I
finally took the time.

My background is varied working 25 years as a freelance journalist/travel
writer racking up sales to more than a dozen newspapers including The Boston
Sunday Globe also the press group UPI and several trade magazines. Not
content with that I formed my own publishing company and for six years
published newsletters, newspapers and books. I also became a private pilot
and did aerial photography and search and rescue to support my flying habit.
It was during this time that my interest in alternative medicine began,
first with homeopathy and then chinese medicine and now ayurveda. I
currently hold an MD in Alternative Medicine (India) and a Diploma in
Homeopathic Medicine (London) I am currently working on a Ph.D (AM) project
on integrated medicine (allopathic, ayurvedic, TCM, homeopathy, etc.) with
the result being a malaria field treatment guide for rural health workers
and lay people. In my spare time I study ayurveda. I am now retired and can
devote my time to something more worthwhile than golf.

I would appreciate any help ISTAM members can provide in the way of internet
sites, books and people of interest in combating malaria. I am particularly
interested in the experience of practitioners in the use of
alternative/traditional medicines, positive and negative, in the treatment
of malaria.

Thank your help and I look forward to being a contributing member of the
group.

Robert Steele
Saint John, New BrunswicK, Canada (Summer)
Denver, Colorado (Winter)

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