James N. Dillard, MD, DC, LAC
James Dillard has seen health care from many sides. Formally and uniquely trained in three health professions - acupuncture, chiropractic and conventional medicine, Dr. Dillard is an "integrative" physician - one who combines the best of modern medical and pharmaceutical care with the best of the Complementary and Alternative therapies.
Dr. Dillard is included in New York Magazine's prestigious listing of New York's Best Doctors for 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, and is only 1 of 3 doctors cited in New York Magazine for practicing "complementary medicine".
Dr. Dillard served as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for 12 years, and was on the medical staff at the New York-Presbyterian Hospitals Columbia Medical Center. He was also an Attending Physician at Beth Israel Medical Center, in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care. Dr. Dillard served as the Medical Director of Columbia's widely-respected Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a National Institutes of Health NCCAM Center-granted research and education center at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons under the direction of Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D. , during his years at Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Dillard was the originator and course co-director with Dr. Kronenberg of Columbia's groundbreaking and highly successful Continuing Medical Education conference, Integrative Pain Medicine, which educated physicians, nurses and psychologists from all over the world for five years. He resigned from employment at Columbia in 2006, to go exclusively into private practice in Manhattan, and in East Hampton, NY.
Dr. Dillard was the founding and long-term Medical Director for the Oxford Health Plans Alternative Medicine program. Dr. Dillard has lectured extensively on the topics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Pain Medicine, Nutrition and Dietary Supplements, Acupuncture, Chiropractic and Manual Medicine, Natural Health, and how to integrate complementary and alternative approaches into conventional medical delivery systems. His clinical practices at 110 East 59th Street in Manhattan, and in East Hampton, NY, focuses on musculoskeletal rehabilitation, spine pain and headache, integrative pain medicine, clinical nutrition, and general complementary and alternative medicine.
Dr. Dillard has been widely published, both in print and on the World Wide Web. His most recent book, The Chronic Pain Solution is a comprehensive guide on how to integrate the best of conventional and alternative medicine for chronic pain. Dr. Dillard was seen throughout the U.S. in March and June of 2003-2005 during the airing of his PBS special "Chronic Pain Relief", raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Public Broadcasting during national PBS pledge drives.
His many other media appearances have included The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, NPR, ABC World New Tonight, and the CBS Evening News.