Diana Schwarzbein, MD explores the connections to insulin, cortisol and thyroid hormones as well as the connections between the sex hormones themselves.
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The objectives of this plenary panel is to educate the practitioner about the wide-ranging health effects of vitamin D and the diverse consequences of deficiency including a guideline for screening and treatment. Audio from other sessions from the 2009 Integrative Healthcare Symposium will be featured in upcoming newsletters. If you are interested in ordering these sessions on CD, please visit:
www.conferencerecording.com
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From the 2009 Integrative Healthcare Symposium:
PractiCAM Workshop: Reiki--What Every Clinician Needs to Know
Speakers: James Dillard, MD, DC, LAc, Pamela Miles, Reiki Master
Reiki is a gentle, light-touch healing practice used by patients and health care professionals for self-care, and offered to patients in such prestigious hospitals as Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY-Presbyterian Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center, and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Reiki is non-invasive and incorporating it in clinical practice can support the delivery of health care in a wide range of settings, including ob/gyn, pediatrics, cardiac, pain/palliative care, infectious disease, rehab, and hospice. The lack of standards for Reiki education and practice has led to misinformation and myths, and created challenges to clinical integration.
Learning Objectives:
- Review Reiki research
- Recognize clinical applications for Reiki
- Understand why Reiki has no known contraindications
- Identify a credible Reiki practitioner
- Distinguish between Reiki and Therapeutic Touch/Healing Touch
- Experience a brief hands-on sample so you can advise your patients from direct experience
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Integrative Healthcare Symposium 2009
National Policy and Integrative Practice: Building the Road (Part 1)
Speaker(s): Chair: Bill Benda, MD, Panelist: Adam Perlman, MD, MPH, FACP, Panelist: Carla Mariano, RN, EdD, AHN-C, FAAIM, Panelist: David Seckman, Panelist: Donna Nowak, CHT, CRT, Panelist: Janet Kahn, PhD, NCTMB, Panelist: Karen Howard
We are about to engage in a shift of our healthcare paradigm, heralded by growing numbers of summits, Conferences, panels, and their media coverage promoting unconventional strategies for managing wellness and disease. Very astute and experienced leaders are envisioning how a more integrative clinical, academic, and political approach may carry us through this transition. This leads us to ponder which individuals, organizations, and institutions will actually take on the challenge of bringing such vision into reality. This panel of organizational presidents and executive directors will openly and in good faith discuss communal goals as well as internal obstacles to authentic negotiation and collaboration in instilling the integrative philosophy into mainstream cultural and political thought.
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Integrative Healthcare Symposium 2009
National Policy and Integrative Practice: Building the Road (Part 2)
Speaker(s): Chair: Bill Benda, MD, Panelist: Adam Perlman, MD, MPH, FACP, Panelist: Carla Mariano, RN, EdD, AHN-C, FAAIM, Panelist: David Seckman, Panelist: Donna Nowak, CHT, CRT, Panelist: Janet Kahn, PhD, NCTMB, Panelist: Karen Howard
We are about to engage in a shift of our healthcare paradigm, heralded by growing numbers of summits, Conferences, panels, and their media coverage promoting unconventional strategies for managing wellness and disease. Very astute and experienced leaders are envisioning how a more integrative clinical, academic, and political approach may carry us through this transition. This leads us to ponder which individuals, organizations, and institutions will actually take on the challenge of bringing such vision into reality. This panel of organizational presidents and executive directors will openly and in good faith discuss communal goals as well as internal obstacles to authentic negotiation and collaboration in instilling the integrative philosophy into mainstream cultural and political thought.
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Integrative Healthcare Symposium 2009
Plenary Panel--National Policy and Integrative Practice: Roadmaps for the Future
Speaker(s): Moderator: Matt Russell, Panelist: Josephine Briggs, MD, Panelist: Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN, Panelist: Wayne Jonas, MD
Thursday, 02/19/2009 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Talk of reform of the medical system is in the air. There is good reason. The US spends over twice as much per capita as other nations on health care yet ranks 47th in outcomes, according to a leading study. An Institute of Medicine team estimates that up to half of current healthcare expenditures are waste. Some kind of action is expected with either new administration.
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Robert Rountree, MD outlines a scientifically based clinical strategy for enhancing the process of biotransformation in order to lower a person's total body burden of toxins.
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Gerard E. Mullin, MD, MHS, CNSP, discuss the evidence for CAM therapies in GI disease. Also, he asseses the clinical research to support the efficiacy of probiotics in Gastrointestinal disease. Kathie Swift, MS, RD, LDN, discusses food-as-medicine in gastrointestinal disease.
Audio taped, CAMEXPO, February 8-10, 2007.
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Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, the "Natural Nurse", interviewed Ruthy Alon, a Senior Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method®, on her radio program, May 2, 2008.
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Sara Gottfried, MD reviews modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors and discusses bone density and its role in decision making.
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Tracy Gaudet, MD explains how women can achieve new levels of well-being by making conscious health choices in the context of the rhythms and cycles that are unique to the gemale body and soul.
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