Dr. Wendy Weber to serve as director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Today, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, M. D, Ph. D, announced that Wendy Weber, N. D, Ph.
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D, has been selected to serve as director of NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. D, has been selected to serve as director of NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).
She began her new role on August 23, 2026. Weber’s history of leadership in whole-person health, pain management research, and deep connection to NIH make her a natural fit to lead the center into a new chapter of rigorous scientific discovery. ” As the head of NCCIH, Dr.
Weber will manage the administration of the center’s approximately $170 million budget. NCCIH supports research that aims to determine the fundamental science, usefulness, and safety of complementary and integrative health approaches and their roles in improving health and health care.
During her more than 15 years with NIH, Dr. She also provided scientific leadership to the multi-Institute NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory and the NIH-VA-DoD Pain Management Collaboratory.
Prior to joining NIH as a program director in 2009, Dr. She was the first naturopathic physician to receive an NIH career development (K) award, which supported her clinical trial of St.
David Shurtleff who has served as Acting Director of NCCIH since October 2025,” said Dr.



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