Pat Culliton serves as the director of Minneapolis-based Hennepin County Medical Center's Alternative Medicine Division, where she is also the director of Alternative Medicine for the National Institutes of Health Center for Addiction and Alternative Medicine Research. A licensed acupuncturist, she earned her Diplomate in Acupuncture in 1985 from the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists in Washington, D.C. She has special interest in complementary therapies and substance addictions.