Wayne B. Jonas, MD, is president and chief executive officer of the Samueli Institute, a not-for-profit medical research organization supporting the scientific investigation of healing processes and their application in health and disease. He is a widely published scientific investigator, a practicing family physician, and an associate professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Additionally, Dr. Jonas is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Dr. Jonas was the director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health from 1995 to 1998, and prior to that he served as the director of the Medical Research Fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.