Patricia Herman, ND, PhD, is a National Institute of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine-trained research methodologist, a resource economist and a licensed practicing naturopathic doctor. She has been an economist for more than 30 years and in this role she was invited to co-author a commissioned paper on the economics of integrative medicine for the Institute of Medicine’s 2009 Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public, has served on National Institute of Health review panels, was an invited speaker at the Office of Dietary Supplement’s workshop on the Economic Analysis of Nutrition Interventions: Methods, Research and Policy, and was an invited participant in the Economic Toolkit Expert Panel Conference held January 2011 at RAND Corporation for Samueli Institute.

She has been the methodologist and economist for a number of research studies; has been responsible for dozens of cost-effectiveness analyses across a number of disciplines, including a number of cost-effectiveness analyses of complementary and integrative medicine (CIM); has written three books on the methods involved in economic evaluation; has taught more than 100 workshops on the topic; and has completed two systematic reviews of economic evaluations of CIM. Her training and experience in research methodology includes statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology, econometrics, psychometrics, and program evaluation as well as general and whole systems research design and health services research methods.