Ian D. Coulter

Biography

Ian Coulter is a senior health policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, where he holds the Samueli Institute Chair in Policy for Integrative Medicine. He is also a professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry and a research professor at the Southern California University of Health Sciences. Coulter has more than 20 years of experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on chiropractic and has authored or coauthored more than 40 articles and two books. He is the principal investigator of the Evidenced-Based Practice Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at RAND, which is funded through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in cooperation with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), and is the principal investigator on a case study of integrative medicine, also funded by NCCAM. Coulter is a former director of the UCLA/Drew University Center for Minority Oral Health; was a member of the National Institutes of Health's Cancer Advisory Panel for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; and serves on the advisory committee for the NCCAM Center for Chiropractic Research. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine and the Journal of Evidenced-Based Dental Practice. Coulter received his Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.