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Medical Author:

Rick Kulkarni, MD

Medical Editor:

William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

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Author: Rick Kulkarni, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine; Director of Informatics, Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

Editor: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR

Previous contributing editors:

Editors: Manoj Sharma, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor, Health Promotion & Education Editor, Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education, University of Cincinnati; Mary L Windle, Pharm D, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine.com, Inc; Thomas M DeBerardino, MD, Director, John A Feagin Jr Sports Medicine Fellowship at West Point, Chief, Orthopedic Surgery Service, Keller Army Hospital at West Point.

REFERENCE:

United States. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. "Yoga for Health: An Introduction." Feb. 3, 2012. <http://nccam.nih.gov/health/yoga/introduction.htm>.

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