I have long admired Dr. Qing Li's pioneering research in Forest Medicine and would like to acknowledge his remarkable contribution to the field.

 

Dr. Qing Li (MD, PhD) is an internationally recognised expert in forest medicine - the scientific study of how time spent in forest environments influences human health and wellbeing. He is a clinical professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, Japan, and has been a visiting fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

 

Dr. Li is the founding president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine , president of the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine (INFOM) and a director of the Forest Therapy Society in Japan.

 

Dr. Li began his research into Shinrin-yoku in the early 2000s and has since published numerous scientific papers exploring - among other topics - the effects of forest environments on stress, immune function, blood pressure, heart rate, COPD, mood and sleep. He has established a new preventive medicine, Forest Medicine and published Forest Medicine in 2012 in the USA.

 

His popular books, including Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing, also published as Forest Bathing, have introduced the practice and its evidence based benefits to readers around the world.