Dr. Jun J. Mao is the Chief of the Integrative Medicine Service and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is also Professor of Medicine and Populational Health Sciences at the Weill Cornell College of Medicine. He is a board-certified family physician and a licensed acupuncturist who combines western and eastern approaches to manage pain and symptoms in cancer patients. Dr. Mao’s program of research focuses on investigating the effects, mechanisms, and integration of Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM) for symptom management in cancer. He has received extensive peer-reviewed funding from the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. and has published over 250 peer-reviewed research manuscripts in top oncology journals such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA Oncology, Cancer, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Mao’s research has contributed to the evidence-based growth of acupuncture in cancer care. He is the past president of the Society for Integrative Oncology, an international organization with over 500 members from over 40 countries dedicated to the science and integration of evidence-based complementary approaches in conventional cancer care. He is the Co-President for the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR), an research organization to advance the scientific understanding and clinical evidence of acupuncture.