By 1999, the Association of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine was established, which in 2015 reached 60 members, including the Colleges of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University And Duke University and Georgetown University, as well as Mayo Clinic Hospital. In 2015, the association's name was changed to the Academic Association for complementary Health and Medicine, which aims to promote the practice of complementary medicine by bringing together medical schools that teach complementary medicine in their medical education curricula[3]. In 2013, the American Board of Medical Specialties, the body responsible for awarding specialty certificates to physicians in the United States, announced that at the beginning of 2014, it would accredit doctors specializing in complementary medicine.[4]