>From: "Robert Steele" <resteele99@...> >Reply-To: iastam@yahoogroups.com >To: iastam@yahoogroups.com, d.wujastyk@... >Subject: [iastam] New member >Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:10:18 -0600 > >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) >