About Us
Dr Nic Rowley MA, MRCS (Eng), LRCP, PGCE, LicAc
read medicine at Trinity College Cambridge, and completed his clinical training at the Royal Free Hospital, London.
As well as running holistic medical practices in Kent and West Sussex, he has played a significant role in the raising of educational and regulatory standards of complementary and alternative medicine in the UK. As academic vice principal of the European School of Osteopathy, he devised and authored the UK's first classified honours degree program in complementary medicine to be validated by an established university. He was thus closely involved in the process that lead to Osteopathy being recognised as an independent, self-regulating profession governed by statute in Britain, a model that has subsequently been developed within other complementary medical disciplines. He was also Dean of Studies at the School of Herbal medicine, and guest lecturer and examiner at several major colleges of alternative medicine including the International College of Oriental Medicine and the College of Homeopathy.
Nic is author of several books including Basic Clinical Science (an overview of orthodox clinical science for students of alternative medicine) and Hands On (a manual of clinical skills), and has sat on external degree academic validation panels for various universities, including the University of Wales, overseeing the validation of courses at diploma, degree, and Master's level for schools of complementary medicine both in Britain and Europe. He has a particular interest in the therapeutic use of music, and holds a teaching qualification (PGCE) from the Institute of Education, University of London.
Nic was the architect of Heartwood Herbal Education.