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Video: David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - Brain Health – a Lifelong Adventure, Integrative Healthcare Symposium 2008

Keynote speech by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN. More >>

Video: Stephen Cowan, MD -- The Five Phases of Attention Deficit Disorder

Stephen Cowan, MD discusses the relevant questions surrounding attention deficit disorders, investigates the meaning of attention and the ways we can improve it in our children and ourselves. DISCUSS>>  More >>

Video: Karen Erickson, DC - Chiropractic Panel, Integrative Healthcare Symposium 2008

This panel presentation describes several ways in which Doctors of Chirporactic have developed successful careers in integrated practice settings. Recorded January 18, 2008 at Integrative Healthcare Symposium. More >>

Norm Shealy, MD, PhD: Life Beyond 100

Secrets of the Fountain of Youth More >>

Video: William Meeker, DC - Integrative Healthcare Symposium 2008

This panel presentation describes several ways in which Doctors of Chirporactic have developed successful careers in integrated practice settings. Recorded January 18, 2008 at Integrative Healthcare Symposium. More >>

Video: Anthony Lisi, DC - Chiropractic Panel, Integrative Healthcare Symposium 2008

This panel presentation describes several ways in which Doctors of Chirporactic have developed successful careers in integrated practice settings. Recorded January 18, 2008 at Integrative Healthcare Symposium. More >>

Video: Paul Dougherty, DC - Chiropractic Panel, Integrative Healthcare Symposium 2008

This panel presentation describes several ways in which Doctors of Chirporactic have developed successful careers in integrated practice settings. Recorded January 18, 2008 at Integrative Healthcare Symposium. More >>

Video: Frank Lipman & Marty Jaramillo - A Functional Approach

Dr. Frank Lipman and Marty Jaramillo, PT will present their successful Integrated approach, which they have developed over years of working together.  This functional approach to Orthopedics combines Functional Medicine for a global assessment, Acupuncture to modulate the nervous system and affect fascial changes and aggressive hands-on Physical Therapy to manipulate and affect change in soft-tissue restrictions. More >>

Video: J. Pizzorno and R. Duggan - Patient Empowerment for Diagnosis and Public Health

Joseph E. Pizzorno, ND and Robert M. Duggan, M.A., M.Ac. (UK), Dipl.Ac. (NCCA) present a unified perspective on what the American consumer is seeking to purchase in the health/healing marketplace. They are seeking empowerment as wise healers of their own lives and the lives of their families. More >>

Video: Erminia 'Mimi' Guarneri, MD - The Heart Speaks

Dr. Guarneri discusses risk factors for cardiovascular disease and how Holistic integrative treatment is key to disease prevention. Also, she compares the role of nutrition, exercise and supplements in cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention. More >>

Video: Christiane Northrup, MD—Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Trusting the Wisdom of Our Bodies

Christiane Northrup, MD discusses the female body and its processes. Visit Dr. Northrup's site: http://www.drnorthrup.com/ More >>

Video: Diana Schwarzbein, MD - Menopause — A Symphony of Hormone Interactions

Replacing the loss of the sex hormones is more complicated than filling "the tank" back up with estradiol and progesterone. This talk explores the connections to insulin, cortisol and thyroid hormones as well as the connections between the sex hormones themselves. Learn why menopause is so complicated and why "one dose does not fit all". More >>

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Audio: Diana Schwarzbein, MD - Menopause — A Symphony of Hormone Interactions

Diana Schwarzbein, MD explores the connections to insulin, cortisol and thyroid hormones as well as the connections between the sex hormones themselves. More >>

Audio: An Interview with Ruthy Alon

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, the "Natural Nurse", interviewed Ruthy Alon, a Senior Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method®, on her radio program, May 2, 2008. More >>

Audio: Sara Gottfried, MD - Osteoporosis Evidence-Based Integration

Sara Gottfried, MD reviews modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors and discusses bone density and its role in decision making. More >>

Audio: Tracy Gaudet, MD - Taking Charge of Your Health —Empowerment Strategies for Women

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. More >>

Audio: Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN and Bernie Siegel, MD—Cancer and Healing

Recorded on December 21st, 2007 during her radio show, Natural Alternatives, Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, the "Natural Nurse", interviews Bernie Siegel, MD. Dr. Siegel was a featured keynote speaker at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in January 2008. More >>

Audio: Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN & Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN—The Natural Nurse

Recorded on December 10th, 2007 during her radio show, The Natural Nurse & Dr. Z, Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN and Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN discuss integrative medicine in the nursing community. Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN will be a featured panelist at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in January 2008. More >>

Audio: Corinne Furnari, CCN, RPA, and Robert Rountree, MD—Take Charge of Your Health: Environmental Focus

Recorded on December 7, 2007 during her radio show "Take Charge of Your Health" broadcast on WBAI 99.5 in New York City, Corinne Furnari, CCN, RPA and guest host Robert Rountree, MD discuss detoxification. More >>

Audio: Corinne Furnari, CCN, RPA and Judy Lane, NP, MS—Take Charge of Your Health: Women's Health

Recorded on November 16, 2007 during her radio show "Take Charge of Your Health" broadcast on WBAI 99.5 in New York City, www.wbai.org, Corinne Furnari, CCN, RPA and guest host Judy Lane, NP, MS, discuss various issues regarding women's health. Topics include: whether or not pregnant women should receive flu shots and other hot button issues. More >>

Audio: Benjamin Kligler, MD, MPH - Nutrition for Kids

Benjamin Kligler, MD, MPH, discusses key points in counseling families on the principles of a healthy diet in children.  More >>

Audio: An Interview with Robert M. Duggan, MA, MAc

John Weeks, Publisher-Editor of The Integrator Blog, sat down with Robert Duggan, MA, MAc, a practitioner of acupuncture for more than 30 years and President of Tai Sophia Institute, in Laurel, Maryland. More >>

Audio: An Interview with Stephen Cowan, MD

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, the "Natural Nurse", sat down at Integrative Healthcare Symposium with Stephen Cowan, MD, a board-certified pediatrician and certified medical acupuncturist with more than 20 years of clinical experience working with children. DISCUSS>> More >>

Audio: An Interview with Susan Luck, MS, RN, HNC, CCN

John Weeks, Publisher-Editor of www.theintegratorblog.com, sat down with Susan Luck, a holistic nursing visionary and advocate at Integrative Healthcare Symposium. Ms. Luck speaks about the development of holistic nursing during the past three decades. More >>

Audio: D. Barry Boyd, MD — The Biology of Integrative Cancer Therapy

D. Barry Boys, MD, highlights the role of integrative cancer therapies in cancer outcomes. Recent research has demonstrated the ability of lifestyle interventions to significantly improve cancer prognosis. Central to this discussion of integrative therapies is the role of weight, obesity and the metabolic syndrome on both cancer causation and recurrence. Audio taped, CAMEXPO, February 8-10, 2007 More >>

Audio: Carrie Louise Daenell, ND - Restoring Digestive Health in the Treatment of Rheumatological and Autoimmune Disease

Carrie Louise Daenell, ND discusses how the restoration of digestion health can treat one of the major underlying causes of systemic inflammation. Audio taped, CAMEXPO, February 8-10, 2007 More >>

Audio: C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD - Youthful Aging — Life Beyond 100

C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, explores the basics for optimal health and longevity along with the essentials for promoting health throughout life. Audio taped, CAMEXPO, February 8-10, 2007 More >>

Audio: Bernadette Johnson, RN, MS, CES, Henry Dreher, MA - Integrating Mind-Body Medicine in Cancer

Bernadette Johnson, RN, MS, CES, and Henry Dreher, MA discuss studies of mind-body group interventions, including the controversial questions of whether these programs can influence the survival among participants via mind-body mechanisms. Audio taped, CAMEXPO, February 8-10, 2007 More >>

Audio: Alan Dumoff, JD, MSW - Report from the Trenches — Legal Case Studies in Defending Integrative Practitioners

Alan Dumoff, JD, MSW discusses medical board defense, and issues affecting malpractice and working with other CAM practitioners, along with Medicare and insureance billing, food, drug and device regulation, HIPAA, and other regulatory issues. Audio taped, CAMEXPO, February 8-10, 2007 More >>

Audio: Annemarie Colbin, PhD, CHES - Whole Systems Nutrition — A Theory-Based Approach to Healthful Eating

Annemarrie Colbin, PhD, CHES, discusses the current nutritional theory and scientific data. In addition, paradigms in health care and biomedicine, as well as traditional medicines such as Chinese and Ayurveda will also be covered. Audio taped, CAMEXPO, February 8-10, 2007 More >>

Audio: Stephen Cowan, MD - The Five Phases of Attention Defecit Disorder

Are We Paying Attention to Our Kids and Are They Paying Attention to Us? Stephen Cowan, MD, discusses the relevant questions surrounding attention defecit disorders and investigate the meaning of attention and the ways we can improve it in our children and ourselves. More >>

Audio: Gerard E. Mullin, MD, MHS, CNSP and Kathie Swift, MS, RD, LDN—Integrative Gastroenterology 2007

Gerard E. Mullin, MD, MHS, CNSP, discuss the evidence for CAM therapies in GI disease. Also, he asseses the clincial 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. More >>

Audio: Integrative Approaches to Cancer Care Panel

Woodson Merrell, MD, James Gordon, MD, Jeremy Geffen, MD, FACP, and Ronald Blum, MD discuss carious integrative approaches towards cancer care. More >>

Audio: Herbal Remedies and Botanical Medicines in the Cross Fire Panel

David Matteson, Michael McGuffin and Kevin Spelman discuss research, education, politics, regulation and market forces in relation to herbal rememdies and botanical medicines. More >>

Audio: Timothy Culbert, MD - Pediatric Health — Integrative Approaches to Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management

Timothy Culbert, MD discusses safe, effective complementary, alternative and self-management options for and symptom management in children and teens. He also discusses his experience in both in patient and out patient settings at a large children's hospital. More >>

Audio: Sylver Quevedo, MD, MPH and Deborah Quevedo - Indigenous Healing from the Amazon and Contemporary Society

Sylver Quevedo, MD, MPH and Deborah Quevedo discuss the healing process in the Amazon basin. Specifically the use of Ayahuasca in healing. More >>

Audio: Susan Lord, MD - Food-as-Medicine — Integrating Whole Food Nutrition

Susan Lord, MD, discusses the basic principles of a plant based, whole foods diet as well as the rationale for using nourishing whole foods as our primary medicine. More >>

Audio: Sharon Ufberg, DC - Making Integrative Heath Care Work

Sharon Ufberg, DC, discusses optimizing the complementary practitioners contribution in the Integrative health care model. She shares personal and professional stories, including care presentations that still burn bright and light our future. More >>

Audio: Roger Jahnke, OMD - Transitioning to a CAM Practice

Roger Jahnke, OMD, discusses the steps and reasoning behind transitioning towards a CAM practice.  More >>

Audio: Roberta Lee, MD - Integrative Medicine and Ancient Wisdom

Roberta Lee, MD, discusses a case history as an example of the value of combining allopathic and ethnomedical modalities in the clinical setting. She also highlights some supplements and ancient systems exploring the relationship of current research that may support the use of a complex systems approach of integrated care. More >>

Audio: Pina LoGiudice, ND, LAc - Integrative Pediatrics — Talking to Parents About Using Complementary Therapies with Children

Pina LoGiudice, ND, LAc discusses the basic principles of integrative medicine in pediatrics, the reasons to use CAM therapies in children (i.e. rise of diabetes, obesity, ADD, etc.), and describes the various factors involved in those conditions (lifestyle, dietary, environmental, social issues and others). More >>

Audio: Nancy Gahles, DC, CCH, Molly Punzo, MD, DHt, Ann Jerome Croce, PhD, CCH - Traditional Healing — Art and Science of Homeopathy

Nancy Gahles, DC, CCH; Molly Punzo, MD, DHt; Ann Jerome Croce, PhD, CCH discuss the origins, principles, and clinical methods of this time tested modality. They address homeopthy's use in both professional and home settings, present public health data on its life-saving role in epidemics, and discuss recent evidence for its efficacy. More >>

Audio: Mark Hyman, MD - Solving the Puzzle of Chronic Illness — The Challenge of Medicine in the 21st Century

Mark Hyman, MD discusses Functional Medicine and its patterns, connections and networks of balance or imbalance in biologic systems that create health or disease. More >>

Audio: Lawrence Rosen, MD - Holistic Pediatrics — Back to the Future

Lawrence Rosen, MD discusses the "state-of-the-union" of Pediatric Integrative Medicine and a new model of primary pediatric care for the 21st century. Topics include: obesity, pediatric cancer and autism spectrum disorders. More >>

Audio: Larry Baskind, MD - Incorporating Homeopathic Medicine into a Conventional (Pediatric) Practice

Larry Baskind, MD discusses incorporating homeopathic medicine into the conventional pediatric practice. Special attention is called to utilizing homeopathy within a typical general medical practice dependent upon prevailing insurance-based reimbursement structures. More >>

Audio: Joseph E. Pizzorno, ND, Robert Duggan, MA, MAc (UK), Dipl.Ac. (NCCA) - Patient Empowerment vs. Practitioner Responsibility for Diagnosis and Public Health Requirements

Joseph E. Pizzorno, ND and Robert M. Duggan, M.A., M.Ac. (UK), Dipl.Ac. (NCCA) present a unified perspective on what the American consumer is seeking to purchase in the health/healing marketplace. They are seeking empowerment as wise healers of their own lives and the lives of their families. More >>

Audio: Joel Evans, MD - A Holistic Approach to Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer Prevention

Joel M. Evans, MD, discusses the scientific basis for a Holistic Treatment Plan for fibroids and endometriosis, as well as breast cancer prevention. More >>

Audio: Jillian L. Capodice, LAc, MS - Traditional Oriental Medicine and Men's Health

Jillian L. Capodice, LAc, MS introduces the basic concepts regarding traditional oriental medians and topics in men's health including strength, energy, and sexual function. Particular emphasis on urologic conditions including prostatitis, BPH, secual function, and prostate cancer will be emphasized. More >>

Audio: Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP - The Journey Through Cancer — Healing and Transforming the Whole Person

Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP discusses the most conscious, empowered and comprehensive responses to health challenges. How to honor and care for the whole person in an inspiring and yet practical way. More >>

Audio: Hari Sharma, MD, DABP, FRCPC, DABHM - How Consciousness Affects Your Health — an Ayurvedic Approach

Hari Sharma, MD, DABP, FRCPC, DABHM, discusses what consciousness is and its role in physiology, along with how evolution of consciousness can manage health. Also, Dr. Sharma compares the ayurvedic concepts of consciousness to the latest theories of quantum mechanics. More >>

Audio: Frank Lipman, MD, Marty Jaramillo, PT - I.C.E. — A Functional Approach to Non-Surgical Orthopedic Problems

Frank Lipman, MD and Marty Jaramillo, PT, discuss their successful Integrative approach, which they have developed over years of working together. They highlight their functional approach to Orthopedics which combines Functional Medicine for a global assessment, Acupuncture to modulate the nervous ssyem and affect fascial changes and aggressive hands-on Physical Therapy to mainpulate and affect change in soft-tissue restrictions. More >>

Audio: Erminia 'Mimi' Guarneri, MD - The Heart Speaks—Are You Listening?

Erminia 'Mimi' Guarneri, MD discusses risk factors for cardiovascular disease and how Holistic integrative treatment is key to disease prevention. Also, she compares the role of nutrition, exercise and supplements in cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention. More >>

Audio: Donald Abrams - Medical Marijuana in Pain and Palliative Care

Donald I. Abrams, MD, offers a review of the history of marijuana, as well as an update on the pharmacology of the cabbinoids. More >>

Audio: Dennis Goodman, MD - Alternative Therapies for Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Women

Dennis Goodman, MD discusses the advantages of natural supplements and how to effectively reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. More >>
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