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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Benjamin Kligler, MD, MPH, discusses key points in counseling families on the principles of a healthy diet in children.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Woodson Merrell, MD, James Gordon, MD, Jeremy Geffen, MD, FACP, and Ronald Blum, MD discuss carious integrative approaches towards cancer care.
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David Matteson, Michael McGuffin and Kevin Spelman discuss research, education, politics, regulation and market forces in relation to herbal rememdies and botanical medicines.
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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.
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Sylver Quevedo, MD, MPH and Deborah Quevedo discuss the healing process in the Amazon basin. Specifically the use of Ayahuasca in healing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Mark Hyman, MD discusses Functional Medicine and its patterns, connections and networks of balance or imbalance in biologic systems that create health or disease.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Joel M. Evans, MD, discusses the scientific basis for a Holistic Treatment Plan for fibroids and endometriosis, as well as breast cancer prevention.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Donald I. Abrams, MD, offers a review of the history of marijuana, as well as an update on the pharmacology of the cabbinoids.
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Dennis Goodman, MD discusses the advantages of natural supplements and how to effectively reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
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