Professor Stephen Myers

Complementary Medicines Evaluation Committee (CMEC) - membership profile

PhD, BMed, ND

Professor Stephen Myers is the Director of the Australian Centre for Complementary Medicine Education and Research (ACCMER). It is a unique joint venture of the University of Queensland and Southern Cross University. Prior to joining ACCMER in 2001, Professor Myers was the Foundation Head of the School of Natural and Complementary Medicine at Southern Cross University, where he still plays an active role. He initially qualified as a naturopathic practitioner (Southern School of Natural Therapies) and later in western medicine (University of Newcastle). He has a PhD in clinical pharmacology, having studied the effects of lyophilised garlic in pharmacologically modifiable cardiovascular risk factors.

Professor Myers has been extensively involved with naturopathic education at an undergraduate and postgraduate level in Australia for the past 17 years. He is actively engaged in research in herbal medicine, therapeutic foods and in public health issues in Complementary Medicine. He has acted as consultant to industry, government and educational institutions on a broad range of issues involving natural medicine.

In conjunction with Dr Alan Bensoussan, Professor Myers co-authored the report Towards a Safer Choice in 1995, which reviewed the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Australia for the Victorian, New South Wales and Queensland state governments.