Dr. Michael Stanley-Baker is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singagpore in History and in the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He is editor of the Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine and Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia. He is interested in the cultures through which traditional Chinese medical knowledge is mediated, whether past or present, whether religions in early imperial China, or modern healthcare systems today. He is the PI of Polyglotasianmedicine.com, which links Asian drug names and searchable manuscripts, to modern botany, biodiversity and phytochemistry.  As President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM) he is interested in bringing attention to the multi-disciplinarity of Asian medicines, conversations between the sciences and humanities, and producing collaborative solutions to allow the better recognition and use of these traditions today.

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