Dr. Simon Mills

Dr. Simon Mills is a Cambridge University graduate in medical sciences who has since 1977 been a herbal practitioner and natural therapist in England. In that time he has led the main organizations for herbal medicine in the UK, including the British Herbal Medicine Association, the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy and National Institute of Medical Herbalists and has served on Government and House of Lords committees.

Since 1997 he has been Secretary of ESCOP, the lead herbal scientific network in Europe, that produces defining monographs on herbal medicines for the European Medicines Agency. He has also written the standard herbal medicine textbooks, notably with Kerry Bone the two editions of Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy and the Essential Book of Herbal Safety.

He has long been involved in academic work having co-founded the world’s first University Centre for Complementary Health in Exeter (1987), the first integrated health course at a UK medical school at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter (2000) and the first master's Degree program in herbal medicine in the USA (2001).

Simon Mills is a leading authority on the efficacy and safety of herbal medicine, in clinical practice, in the consumer care sector, in university research and education programs, in setting professional and industry standards, and in navigating regulatory requirements around the world.