Alan McDaniel, MD, is a 1977 Tulane medical graduate. He trained in general surgery and emergency medicine before becoming board-certified in otolaryngology with sub-specialties in neurotology and allergy. He has practiced privately since a two-year faculty appointment at the University of Louisville.

He has presented at various national meetings in the US (AAO-HNS, AAOA, ANS, AAEM, IFM, PAAS, ACAM, ICIM) and in Mexico. Topics of his lectures and publications have included general surgery and otolaryngology; otology and neurotology; allergy; chronic fatigue and endocrinology. He has been a faculty member for the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy, both basic and advanced courses, and for the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. His two-day course “New Endocrinology” has been presented at the AAEM and elsewhere since 2005, to physicians from five continents.

Work with dizziness and allergy in the 1980s led him to seek solutions for chronic fatigue syndrome. These clinical investigations were extended to the endocrine aspects of this and related conditions. Because basic surgical training emphasizes the need to know several alternative approaches to an operation, he saw the logic of studying integrative and controversial medical methods. He has endeavored to understand these in the light of new facts from research, mindful that medical history shows innovation begins as a minority opinion.

He is excited that applying new research to patient care offers solutions to many of the chronic and worsening problems that are epidemic in modern society.