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Issues #99-#101 Integrative Medicine and Integrative Health News-April-June 2012 |
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Written by John Weeks
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Issues #99-#101 Integrative Medicine and Integrative Health News-April-June 2012July 6, 2012
Policy
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HRSA offers $3.3-million in grants related to new National Coordinating Center for Integrative Medicine
- Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act, maintains key footholds and opportunities for CAM and integrative health
Integrative Care & Health Systems
- Mayo Clinic encourages MDs with integrative medicine training to apply for new internist positions
- Acupuncturist Christian Nix explores optimal skills for acupuncturists in hospital practices
- Briefly noted developments on health system integrative medicine programs
Patients and Employers
- Bastyr Center for Natural Health ranks highest among 46
primary care practices in major survey of patient experience by the
Puget Sound Health Alliance
- Afraid to speak up: study suggests medicine's "patient-centered" efforts are more thought than action
Education
- International Congress for Educators in Complementary and
Integrative Medicine (ICECIM) draws outpouring of 244 proposals for
October 24-26, 2012 meeting
- NYCC partnership with University of Rochester brings chiropractors and acupuncturists into NIH-funded pain center
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Institute of Medicine Global forums offer huge opportunity for
interprofessional mixing plus innovations in health professional
education
Research
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International Research Congress follow-up - next iteration 2014 in Miami
- Naturopathic doctors report positive outcomes from review of whole person, multi-modality treatments
- NCCAM deputy director Jack Killen, MD to step down
- Briggs' NCCAM blog on the meaning of "integrative" pulls significant, polarized dialogue
Professions
- Dumoff: Community integrative MDs
concerned that inclusion criterion of the new American Board of
Integrative Medicine will favor fellowship graduates
- AMA considers additional resolution in favor of discrimination against non-MD health professions
- American Medical Student Association (AMSA) joins the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC)
- Interview provides insight into perspectives of new AANP CEO Jud Richland
- Jim Winterstein, DC to step down from NUHS presidency in 2013
Media
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Grey's Anatomy takes swipe at naturopathic doctors
- Glenn Sabin on the use of social media in growing an integrative medicine practice
People
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Mimi Guarneri, MD receives Lifetime Achievement from the Institute of Functional Medicine
- Michael Murray, ND receives Presidents' Award from Natural Products Association
July 1, 2012
"Given the stakes, watching
the ABoIM/ABPS process from the outside is a bit angst-inducing." So goes the opening sentence of the article by Alan
Dumoff, JD, MSW, on the status of the effort of the University of Arizona Center for
Integrative Medicine to establish an American Board of Integrative
Medicine (ABoIM) through the American Board of Physician Specialties
(ABPS). Dumoff is an attorney-adviser to a consortium of 8 integrative physician
organizations. He continues: "The
eligibility criteria ... will have a dramatic effect on the future of
integrative medical practice." The Arizona Center and the ABPS have been
officially mum on developments since the September 2011 announcement.
Here is Dumoff's perspective. I add some comments on new paradigms, old thinking, and historicide. More
June 27, 2012
Integrator
editorial adviser and columnist Taylor Walsh shares a hopeful U.S.
Department of Education program that has everything to do with
"integrative health." To be awarded as a "Green School" by the U.S.
Department of Education means implementing a whole system view of
health. As Walsh explains, this can mean engaging the nation's childhood
obesity epidemic. While not regular Integrator fare, the story
is not only interesting but raises questions about the optimal role of
integrative practitioners and their related organizations in urging
public health approaches, including in elementary school education, that
influence the pervasive and powerful social determinants of health. More
June 26, 2012
I have never favored single-issue
politics. Life and legislation are
typically too complex for decision-making based on one position. Yet as
we wait on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act, I find myself focusing on the
meaning of full repeal to a limited but growing part of U.S. health
care: integrative medicine ... Posted here at the Huffington Post.
June 13, 2012
In the mid-1980s, leaders of the reemerging naturopathic medical
profession faced a tough challenge. They had to make the case for a
scientific basis for their field prior to any history of federal support
for naturopathic research. Many of their references were gleaned from conventional medical
literature. Bottom line: The re-emergence of naturopathic doctors (N.D.s)
owed a significant debt to research of their medical doctor (M.D.)
colleagues. Now it looks like present day naturopathic researchers may be paying
back this debt -- at least as far as their medical doctor colleagues in
integrative medicine are concerned. Please read, link, FB share, comment, twitter here at Huffington Post.
June 9, 2012
Policy
- IHPC Congressional Briefing-Where Health Care is Headed: Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Integrated Healthcare
- The Need to Change the Nation's Therapeutic Order: Senate Committee
Examines Close Relationships Between Pain Groups and Pharma
- Rand Corporation holds policy forum' on integrative medicine
- W.H.O. Invites ACCAHC Executive Director as Outside Adviser for 2014-2023
TM/CAM Strategic Plan
- Videos of CAM/IM Policy Presentations Posted by Life
University's Octagon Institut
Philanthropy
- Hugely influential Bravewell Collaborative announces plans to sunset operations in 2013
- Foundation consortium in $8.6-million boost for new National Center for Interprofessional Education and
Collaborative Practice
Employers
- WebMD pumps health coaching to employer community
Integrative Clinics
- Briefly noted developments in health system integrative medicine programs
Education
- Consortia of medical schools
(CAHCIM) and CAM educators (ACCAHC) jointly sponsor International
Congress for Educators in Complementary and Integrative Medicine,
Georgetown, October 24-26
- University of Calgary medical acupuncture program for MDs enters 22nd year
- Organization called "the official voice of CAM in the United States" featured in Redwood's Healthy Insights Today
- Input invited on core competencies in integrative pain management for primary care physicians
Natural Products
- Council
of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine endorses American Herbal Products Association's Botanical
Authentication Program
Research
- NCCAM begins research blog: Briggs' early offering explores meaning of "integrative"
- IN-CAM Research Conference November 2-4, 2012: Abstract submissions close June 29, 2012
- Massage Therapy Research Conference
Professions
- IAYT board of directors approves education standards for Yoga therapy
- Massage group engages Entry Level Analysis Project (ELAP) to clarify appropriate length of massage education
- NY Beth Israel Integrative Medicine Leader Kligler Offers Strong Support for Naturopathic Licensing
Media
- Economist poll 2-1 in favor of "alternative medicine" being taught in medical schools
- New York Times writer excoriates the annual physical and routine testing as sources of over-performance of waste and harm
- Nominations open for IMCJ's new "Award of Excellence" in Integrative Medicine
- Taylor Walsh makes case for integrative medicine
People
- David Mercier's A Beautiful Medicine a finalist in the International Book Awards
- Prevention leader Jud Richland named CEO of American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
- Patricia Herman, MS, ND, PhD takes research position at RAND Health division
- Moira Fitzpatrick, PhD, ND selected to head of Bastyr Sand Diego campus
- Dana Ullman's Homeopathic Family Medicine
May 12, 2012
Policy
- PCORI Changes Language to Include Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Providers
- Kahn: Prevention Fund under 6th attack by Republicans
- Integrative oncologist Donald Abrams, MD takes public position for legalization of marijuana
Education
- CAM educator consortium ACCAHC to represent integrative health in
the 3 year IOM Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional
Education
- Surveyed acupuncturists back
educational requirements for experience in integrated
environments and team-care
Employers
- National Business Coalition on Health CEO offers 10 suggestions for integrative care players approaching the employer market
Professions
- What the naturopathic doctors sought on their Washington, D.C. Lobby Day
- Transition in leadership at the American Holistic Nurses Association
- CAM/Integrative Medicine Panel At The Yale Healthcare 2012
Conference
Organizations
- Massage Therapy Foundation develops useful evidence tool-bar
- Multidisciplinary coaching group announces websites, next steps toward educational standards, credentialing
Integrative Centers
- Philanthropist-backed Casey Health Institute to feature integrative medicine in a PCMH model; medical director sought
- Group acupuncture at Cleveland Clinic's integrative center highlighted
- Briefly noted developments related to health system integrative medicine clinics
People
- Charlie DuBois, Standard Process' president, granted honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
- Robert Downey, Jr received award from YoSan University for advocacy of acupuncture
E-Letter in response to a past articles
- Tai Sophia Institute vice president Judy Broida, PhD on the institution's move toward university status
May 8, 2012
The
Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care
(ACCAHC) is a founding sponsor of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Global
Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education. According to the release, IOM established the forum to operationalize
recommendations
from two significant reports produced in the centennial year of the
Flexner Report that both revolutionized and polarized health
professional education after its publication in 1910. ACCAHC joins over
30 other education and health professional organizations in
sponsorship. ACCAHC anticipates "bring(ing) core values of whole person,
wellness-focused, patient-centered, integrative practices to this Global
Forum with our academic colleagues from other disciplines and other
nations." More
May 6, 2012
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
institute (PCORI) has listened to public input and made a series of
responsive changes to their draft National Priorities for Research and
Research Agenda. Included is new
language that explicitly includes "integrative healthcare providers" and
"complementary and alternative medicine providers" as part of a list of
allied health professionals. The inclusion is in the context of
"Improving Health Systems" and is associated with "alternative
strategies to the composition of health teams." The link and precise
language is here. Credit PCORI for their open process and
responsiveness. I follow with comments on a value of inclusion. More
May 6, 2012
The elements are these: a philanthropist in the
nation's Beltway with an interest in integrative medicine, her faith in
an integrative-minded physician, and an opportunity to occupy a large
building site near a medical corridor. Such was the opportunity offered
by Betty Casey to David Fogel, MD in 2010. In this article by long-time
integrative health leader Alan Dumoff, JD, MSW, a consultant to the
project, readers have a chance to see the decisions 2010-2012 via an
array of consultations in a cross-country
exploration of best practices. Their decision was to develop the new Casey
Health Institute as a model patient centered medical home (PCMH) that
could influence developments across the country as PCMH's expand. There is a position open, by the way,
for a top-notch medical director. See the job description at the bottom
of Dumoff's article. More
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