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Text Box: Rustum Roy Founder & Chair of Friends of Health… … is one of the nation’s and world’s leading materials scientists, honored by election to the U.S. National Academy in 1973, and subsequently to the National Academies of Japan, Sweden, India and Russia. In the Emperor of Japan’s 2002 Honors List, Prof. Roy was inducted into the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays. Rustum Roy has been an active churchman all his life. He has been associated but not only with the National Council of Churches, but with pioneering institutions such as the Kirkridge Retreat Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania; the Church of the Savior in Washington D.C.; and the Sycamore Community, one of the nation’s oldest house churches. For twenty years Rustum has been involved with whole person healing (WPH)—(complementary and alternative medicine). It started with his friendship with many of the field’s world leaders—Linus Pauling, Norman Cousins, Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, etc. He dedicates half his time to this work. Friends of Health, champion for all ancestral healing practices, is partnering with other groups in four unique projects: Helping bring the varied institutions of WPH together; Bridging the WPH community to that of large numbers of mainstream high-level science; Educating the mainstream citizen community through regular undergraduate courses; Creating local Circles for Health as a national preventative analogue of AA.