From 2010 to 2015, Prof. Dr. med. Dieter Melchart held the first professorship for naturopathy and complementary medicine in Bavaria at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (endowed professorship of the Erich Rothenfußer Foundation, Munich). There, he headed the ‘Competence Centre for Complementary Medicine and Naturopathy (KoKoNat)’ at the Klin-ikum rechts der Isar and the associated outpatient clinic and day clinic for natur-opathy and health promotion. In addition, Dieter Melchart was titular professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from 2010 to 2019 and is a visiting pro-fessor at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Since 2020, he has been an honorary professor of complementary medicine and individual health management (IHM) at the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), Germany, and was head of the KoKoNat until 2025. Since 1991, Dieter Melchart has been chairman of the scientific advisory board of the first German clinic for traditional Chinese medicine in Bad Kötzting, Germany. His research focuses on the clinical evaluation of acupuncture, TCM medicines and lifestyle medicine. As an adjunct professor of naturopathy, Mel-chart continues to lecture on naturopathy in interdisciplinary subject 12 at the Technical University of Munich and supervises doctoral theses.