Episode 17: John Weeks

John Weeks has worked in integrative health and medicine since 1983 as an organizer, writer, consultant, speaker and executive.

He is known to many for his chronicling, honoring and cajoling on policy and organizational activity in the evolving movement for integrative health, particularly through his Integrator Blog which he has produced in various forms since 1995 with key contact presently posted at http://www.johnweeks-integrator.com/posts/

John Weeks is editor-in-chief of JACM – Paradigm, Practice and Policy Advancing Integrative Health (The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine), the longest-standing indexed journal in the field. Particularly satisfying in his JACM work are collaborations with top researchers globally on special issues that focus attention on priority topic: group-delivered services, whole systems research, integrative oncology, implementation science, and naturopathy.

Weeks has consulted with NIH, WHO, PAHO, the American Hospital Association, and with numerous academic, professional, payment and delivery organizations.

He helped found the Integrative Health Policy Consortium, the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (where he served 8 years as executive director), was on the founding board of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine. He presently chairs UCLArts and Healing and is on the advisory board for Integrative Medicine for the Underserved and a new institute at Morehouse College.

In 2014, three integrative consortia collaborated to grant Weeks a Lifetime Achievement Living Tribute Award.

His partner in his work and life is integrative physician Jeana Kimball, ND, MPH, with whom he has two grown children. Weeks is particularly proud of having been able to live and work with his family 6 of the last 18 years from home offices in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico. He loves paddle boarding and, when waves are available, surfing on it. www.johnweeks-integrator.com