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Issues #134-#136 April-June 2015 |
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Written by John Weeks
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Issues #134-#136 April-June 2015June 27, 2015
Policy
-If I Ran the Zoo: Quality Measures in
Accountable Care and the Fit with Integrative Health and Medicine
-HHS Corrects FAQ on 2706/Non-Discrimination:
IHPC's Traub Calls It a Victory
-North Dakota Becomes 45th State
to Regulate Acupuncturists
-Maryland Becomes 29th
State to Regulate Direct-Entry Midwives
Research
Advances
-Systematic Survey of
Naturopathic Whole Practice Research Published
-"To
Pause and Protect" - Mindful Police Work Featured at Oregon Collaborative for
Integrative Medicine SPARC Research Conference
Integrative
Services
-Casey Health Institute:
Marrying Integrative Health and Values-Based Medicine
-Quick
Links to Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: May 2015
Integrative Academics
-University of Western States in Partnership with
Veteran's Group for Chiropractic, Functional Medicine and Massage Services
-Puerto Rico's University of Turabo the 8th
Naturopathic Program to Gain Federal Recognition
-Midwifery Education Accreditation Council Seeks Executive
Director
Organization and Professions
-Ryan
Cliche, MBA, FAE Named Executive Director of the American Association of
Naturopathic Physicians
-AAAOM
Creates Three New Committees in Additional Priority Areas
-F4CP and the IAYT/Yoga Therapy Version of Five Stages of
Professional Development
-Integrator's
John Weeks Leaves ACCAHC Executive Directorship after 8.5 Years
Philanthropy
-It's Official: Bravewell Collaborative Sunsets after
$30-Million of Investment
-A Case of Ethical Relativity: Australian Natural Products Giant
Blackmores Funds $1.3-million Chair in Integrative Medicine at University of
Sydney
International
-The Global
Integrator Blog Round-up from Global Advances in Health and Medicine: May
2015
-Guara Workshop: Traditional
Midwifery and Holistic Medicine in Urubamba , Peru
People
-Robert
Rountree, MD is the 2015 Linus Pauling Award Recipient from IFM
-AOM
Pioneers Robert Duggan and Dianne Connelly Retire from MUIH, Formerly Tai
Sophia Institute
-Bastyr
University Names Charles "Mac" Powell as New President
-CAM
Critic Wallace Sampson, MD, Dies
June 14, 2015
Complementary
and Integrative Health Consortium Celebrates John Weeks' Contributions as He Steps
Down from 8.5 Years as Executive Director
ACCAHC Media Release, June 2015 (Seattle). The Academic Consortium for
Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC) proudly honors the
contributions of integrative health and medicine pioneer John Weeks as
he steps
down as executive director on June 30, 2015 after 8.5 years in the
position. The release documents the multiple impactful engagement of the
consortium of now 58 member organizations, 18 national organization and
40 individual academic institutions. ACCAHC's Chronology of Accomplishment during Weeks'
term ...
June 8, 2015
This
typically monthly Integrator feature is, for May 2015, a
quick capture of highlights
from the stories that flow in daily from various sources relative to
"integrative medicine." A couple of significant themes and events from
May are the Tracy Gaudet-Bernie Sanders chat about integrative VA care,
an interesting reference to a Joint Commission note on dietary
supplements, the new website for the new ACIMH a.k.a. "The Consortium," a
new clinic for the Weil/U Az program, an intriguing John Templeton
Foundation grant to better arm chaplains for work in the evidence-based
medicine (EBM) environment.
(Note that Global News Links are
now posted at The Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances in Health and Medicine - see related notice here.)
June 8, 2015
The Global Integrator Blog Round-up from Global
Advances in Health and Medicine: May 2015
In
January 2015, Integrator publisher-editor John Weeks began producing "The
Global Integrator Blog" for the web portal of the exceptional Global
Advances in Health and Medicine Journal. The month of May 2015 offer posts
that are gathered into the May 2015 Global Integrator Blog Round-up. Posts
include: "What Insurance Records Say about Homeopathy in France;" "US
Agency Upholds Discrimination against Licensed Integrative Health Professions;"
"Swiss Government Will Recognize
Practitioners of TCM, European Traditional Medicine, Homeopathy, and Ayurveda;" "The Inspiring Tale of a Nigerian
Monk, Sustainable Herbalism, and the African Research Institute;" and "Canadian College Offers
Naturopathic Medical Bridge for International Medical Graduates;" and "Quick Links to Global News in Traditional,
Alternative, and Integrative Health and Medicine for April 2015."
May16, 2015
Policy
-YOUR PERSPECTIVES NEEDED: Comment Periods End for NCCIH
Research Strategy (May 18) and HHS Pain Strategy (May 20)
-HHS Shuns Congressional Intent on "Non-Discrimination in
Health Care" and Refuses to Clarify Position
-PETITION:
Congressman Ryan, Hyman, Promoting Measure to Force Nutrition Education in
Medical Schools
-Change from the
Inside Out: Berwick Group's Pushes New Delivery Principles "Beyond the
Triple Aim"
Economics
-Health Creation
Economics: IHPC Publishes Cost-Effectiveness Booklet
-Integrator Columnist Michael Levin: How
$2.00 of Vitamin C Can Save Thousands of Dollars for Patients Following Cardiac
Surgery
Research
-Bravewell Publishes Promising Results of PRIMIER
Practice Based Research Network in IM
-Where the Rubber
Meets the Road: AANMC, AANP and
ACCAHC Urge Interprofessional Make-up of NCCIH Advisory Council
-Oregon's
Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary OCIM Hosts June 2015 SPARC Conference;
Sternberg Featured
-$4.5 Million in Templeton Grants to Fund Research
Literacy for Hospital Chaplaincy
Integrative Delivery
-Four Major Delivery Systems Contract with Healthways for
the Ornish Heart Program
-Quick Links to Integrative
Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: April 2015
Integrative Academics
-Duke Leadership in Integrative Medicine Program Strikes
up Deal with Today's Practitioner
-Two Presentations from Integrative Health and Medicine
Academic Programs and Bridgeport and Arizona Featured at an IOM Forum
-Can a Naturopathic Degree Be a "Bridge" for an
International Medical Graduate?
-New England School of Acupuncture to Combine with MCPHS
University
-American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine to
Merge with CIIS
-Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA)
Initiates "COMTA-endorsed Curriculum Status" Program
Organizations
-60 Minutes Features James Gordon's Center for MindBody
Medicine's Gaza Work in "Lessons of War"
-New Website of Consortium of Academic Centers Announces
Organization as "Collective Voice"
-Sutter Health Systems Joins Academic Consortium for
Integrative Medicine and Health
-AIHM Portrayal in
IMCJ Interview with Executive Director Nan Sudak, MD
-GAHMJ Special
Report: Foundational Work of the National Consortium for Credentialing Health
and Wellness Coaches
International
-The Global Integrator Blog
Round-up for April 2015 from Global Advances in Health and
Medicine
Miscellaneous
-Harmonic
Emergence? The Late 1970s Birth of
the Organized Movement for Integrative Health and Medicine
People
-Meg Jordan, RN, PhD in Co-Presidency of the National
Wellness Institute
-Honoring Dan Cherkin, PhD in His (Partial) Retirement
and New Consulting
May 3, 2015
This
typically monthly Integrator feature is, for April 2015, a
quick capture of highlights
from the stories that flow in daily from various sources relative to
"integrative medicine." A couple of significant themes and events that
showed up significantly in April were the controversy surrounding the
efforts of Columbia medical school faculty to oust TV celebrity Mehmet
Oz, MD and the April 20-21 FDA hearings on homeopathy. Good to see four
delivery systems contracting with Healthways for the Ornish program.
(Note that Global News Links are
now posted at The Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances in Health and Medicine - see related notice here. Exciting development.)
May 3, 2015
In January 2015, Integrator
publisher-editor John Weeks began producing "The Global Integrator
Blog" for the web portal of the exceptional Global Advances in Health
and Medicine Journal. For the month of April, this included 6 posts that are
gathered into the April 2015 Global Integrator Blog Round-up.
Posts include: Acupuncture Without Borders in Nepal; Britain's refusal
to regulate herbalists; the dynamism in AYUSH in India since the
distinct department was created; the international reach and influence
of the Pizzorno/Murray Textbook and Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine;
and areflection on the power of traditional medicine in universal
healthcare as projected in the WHO Strategic Medicine for Traditional
Medicine. For the 7 articles in the March 2015 Round-up, click here.
April 9, 2015
Policy
-Comment Period until June 22: FDA Calls for Comments and Announces April
20-21 Hearing on Regulation of Homeopathics
-Comment Period until May 20: HHS
Publishes DRAFT National Plan for Pain Care
Economics
-Column Available: "Perverse Incentives and the Triple
Aim: Overcoming the Troubled Path to Economic Integration for Integrative
Medicine and Health"
Clinical
-Erik Goldman's Fascinating
Portrait, for FON Consulting, of the Cleveland Clinic's Integrative Program
-Quick Links to
Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: March 2015
Research
-Briggs Blast
Over-Prescribing of Opioids and Announces NCCIH Initiative to Explore
"Misplaced Fear" of Drug-Botanical Interactions
-$3-million Grant to Ottawa Integrative Center for "Real World" Look at Outcomes
of Advanced Integrative Oncology
-Regarding Dugald Seely,
Polarization-based Medicine Bloggers, and the Integrative "Mud Smudge of
Courage"
-AANP President Pournadeali's
Letter to NCCIH Requesting Increased Licensed Complementary and Integrative
Practitioners on Advisory Council
-Award of $415,000 Supports Research on Via CCNM and Toronto's Brampton Hospital
on Naturopathic Care for Type 2 Diabetes
Academics
-Bastyr President
Dan Church, PhD: The Natural Medicine
Journal's Candid Exit Interview after His 10 Years at the Helm
-Naturopathic
Mothership NCNM to Add Bachelors' Programs to Expanding Graduate Offerings
Organizations
-American Medical
Student Association/ACIMH Open LEAPS Program to Students from Non-MD Fields
-IAYT Takes Next
Steps in Certification Program for Yoga Therapists
International
-John Weeks' The Global Integrator Blog Round-up for March 2015 from Global Advances in Health and Medicine
-Australian Agency:
"No Good Quality Evidence that Homeopathy is Effective in Treating Health
Conditions"
Miscellaneous
-The 30-Year, International Reach
of Pizzorno-Murray's Textbook and Their Encyclopedia of Natural
Medicine
People
-Penny George
Institute's Greg Plotnikoff, MD Honored as an "Inspiring Physician" by the
Minnesota Medical Association
-Tieraona Low Dog,
MD Granted Herbal Insight Award by the American Herbal Products Association
-Frank Nicchi, DC,
MS Honored by the Association of Chiropractic Colleges
-Loren Israelsen Receives American Botanical Council's Mark Blumenthal
Herbal Community Builder Award
-Terry Lemerond
Honored by American Botanical Council with Inaugural Champion's Award
April 4, 2015
This
typically monthly Integrator feature is, for March 2015, a
quick capture of highlights
from the stories that flow in daily from various sources relative to
"integrative medicine." Here are 26 selections
related to hospitals and medical organizations and integrative medicine,
plus 5 from
alternative and integrative medicine in community non-system practices. (Note that Global News Links are
now posted at The Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances in Health and Medicine - see related notice here. Exciting development.)
April 1, 2015
Integrator
publisher-editor John Weeks began producing "The Global Integrator
Blog" for the web portal of the exceptional Global Advances in Health
and Medicine Journal. Each month, Weeks produces 7-10 posts that are
gathered into a monthly Round-up. The writing includes a monthly
"Round-up" with headlines succinctly delivered. For March, these
includes posts on a Chinese group obtaining WHO status, new web resource
from Norway on "CAM" regulation in Europe, the medicinal trade in
animal parts, from the USA and Australia, the battle over homeopathy,
and 50 hot links to developments. For February’s Round-up, click here.
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