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Issues #23 and #24 - March 2006 |
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Written by John Weeks
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
Issues # 23 and #24 - March 2007_______________________________
Issues #24 - March 28, 2007
March 28, 2007
When news came
that Wayne Jonas, MD - who nursed the NIH Office of Alternative
Medicine through it stormy early days until it was birthed anew as the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - was taking
the job as executive director of the Samueli Institute, one knew it was
an organization to watch. This year the Samueli Institute is lead
content partner with Health Forum/American Hospital Association on its
5th annual conference on Integrative Medicine for Healthcare Organizations.
In this interview with Barbara Findlay, RN, Samueli Institute's vice
president for optimal healing environments -we should have more of
these titles in corporations of all kinds - you can see why this
promises to be the best conference of its kind in years. More ...
March 28, 2007
Peter Amato's
Inner Harmony Group, based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has provided
national benchmarking experience for integrative clinics as well as
pioneering programs in a public elementary school
for what Amato styles "integral education." For more than a decade,
he's pioneered to establish an integrative clinic business model which
runs in the black - an accomplishment which he and his CEO Steve
Szydlowski, MBA, DHA, have achieved in recent years. (Their work was
reported in the Integrator in July 2006). I am pleased to announce that the Inner Harmony Group has chosen to help move the Integrator mission with a 2007 sponsorship. More ...
March 24, 2007
Cancer Treatment Centers of America sets Phoenix as the site for its 4th hospital ... An article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer underscores
how "integration light" can be passed off as the real thing as a
Swedish Hospital oncologist reportedly speaks of an off-site ND who
draws no salary from the institution as an "in-house naturopath" ... If
Goshen, Indiana seems an unusual place for a robust integrative
medicine effort than this short profile of the Goshen Cancer Center
will surprise you ... Plus, massage at Mayo Hospice, and more. More ...
March 24, 2007
Have the complementary healthcare disciplines been strengthened,
compromised or both in their maturation and inclusion processes? Might
healthcare professions choose directions other than those which ape
practice of an already broken system? These questions were of central
interest when the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) sponsored the Integrator series
on the Future of Yoga Therapy. This closing article in the series
features a conversation with Pamela Snider, ND, who has worked closely with
leaders of all of the complementary and alternative healthcare
disciplines. She touches on challenges in the massage therapy, direct-entry midwifery and naturopathic medical professions, as well as Yoga therapy, in this exploration of Accountability and Soul. More ...
March 24, 2007
The first
Master of Applied Health Products degree is now being offered through
the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences with Lana
Dvorkin-Camiel, Pharm D leading the effort ... One sign of integration
of distinctly licensed professionals in the work of members of the
Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine is
recent inclusion of naturopathic physicians as members of the
organizations Clinical Working Group ... The 57th meeting of the
American Medical Students Association included a contingent of
naturopathic medical student who were looking to foster collaboration
through a couple of resolutions ... An Acupuncture Today article shares
that acupuncture had a presence at the fall meeting of the American
Public Health Association. More ...
March 23, 2007
The son of the
founder of employee benefits consultant and actuarial firm Milliman and
Robertson (now Milliman, Inc.), Bruce Milliman, ND, has broad
experience informing his commentary for the Integrator regarding
naturopathic physician incomes. He's an advisor to the AMA's CPT coding committee,
helped found what may be the nation's largest integrated primary care
practice and talked a Blue Shield plan into allowing their members to
choose naturopathic physicians as their primary care providers. More ...
March 20, 2007
Now 38 North
American medical schools are members of the Consortium of Academic
Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. But what exactly is going on
in these institutions? How far is the internal reach? What role do
these have in their communities? The 2006 Report to the dean from the
integrative medicine program at the Wake First University Medical
School provides Integrator readers with a detailed insight into
the shape of a robust IM programs: faculty involved, the relevant
committees, research funding, top priorities and clinical and
educational services. Thanks to Kathi Kemper, MD, MPH, the center's
integrative medicine leader for making the report available. More.
March 20, 2007
Unfortunately,
the care, the perspectives, the orientation and the labor of those in
integrative medicine, natural health care and integrated health are
still rarely part of the dialogue about health system reform. Call it
negative languaging, but we remain in the back eddies, rarely
consulted, and under-utilized in most talk and action toward healthcare
reform. The idea of this irregular column, Charting the Mainstream,
is to note developments and trends in the mainstream of medicine which
parallel, invite, or offer bridge abutments for those working to
advance the basic, human-to-human, patient-focused, health creating
care. This article re-opens that practice ... More
March 16, 2007 mailing - Issue #23
March 16, 2007
In this, the first in an irregular series, the Integrator examines the health reform proposal announced by US
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) in mid-January. The plan, which features a
strategy for universal coverage, was widely reported. The Integrator focus is not on the financing strategies but whether the reform suggested actually transforms
the system in profound ways which are philosophically aligned with the
integrated care movement. Your comments and counter views are welcome. More
March 15, 2007
Author, Yoga instructor, energy medicine aficionado, blogger and
Harvard Medical School faculty member Michael Cohen has been guiding
clinicians, educators, hospitals and diverse professional associations
through the maze of restrictions and potentialities for integration for
a dozen years. In his most recent book, Healing at the Borderland of
Medicine and Religion, Cohen is a tour-guide through diverse zoo-scapes in our deliciously
murky, regulatory-cosmological transitional world of healing, faith and medicine. More
March 14, 2007
Integrative Medicine Alliance founder Karlo Berger moves to emeritus status ... Rick Leskowitz, MD, links sports and energy medicine in new movie ... Alternative health care insurance promoter Steve Gorman has set up a foundation focusing on inflammatory breast cancer to honor his recently deceased spouse ...
American Specialty Health dumps former VP Kurt Hegetschweiler, DC, and
public affairs action ... Jake Fratkin, OMD honored by AOM teachers ...
Edzard Ernst, MD, granted American Botanical Council's research award
... Colorado Bloom/Schor ND duo push ND licensing for 7th time ...
Mid-Atlantic Kaiser's IM leader Lydia Segal, MD, takes a break ...
Andrew Weil, MD stumps for ND licensing in NY, plus ... More
March 13, 2006
The Integrator article on the publication of an income survey by the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges provoked one round of responses,
which now fuels another. Christy Lee Engel, ND, LAc, comments on
sustainability, poverty mentality and whether it's okay for a doctor to
(merely) be middle class ... Michael Traub, ND, DHANP answers a query about
the percentage of income due to natural pharmacy sales ... Kevin
Wilson, ND, compares pressures on new doctors with high debt to the way
he grew his successful practice ... Bob May, ND, explores questions about steps the profession must take to finds its own route toward financial health ... More
March 13, 2006
This column from Bill Benda, MD, initiates a new Integrator feature: occasional columns from members of the Integrator
editorial advisory board or guest writers. Benda is an emergency room
physician and graduate of the residential fellowship of the Program in
Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona who has a strong interest in public policy in integrative medicine and integrated health care. He is a regular columnist for Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal
and is the first medical doctor to serve on the board of the American
Association of Naturopathic Physicians. Benda writes on the power in
the decision by the American Nurses Association to recognize holistic nursing ... More
March 6, 2007
 New NIH NCCAM Director Wanted: No Experience or Interest in the Field Required
The NIH
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) quietly
posted its want ad for the new director of the $122-million center. The
job description does not require or even note a preference for a
candidate with clinical or research experience - or even interest - in
complementary, alternative or integrative medicine. Wayne Jonas, MD,
urges the CAM community to put forward its best candidates. Adi
Haramati, PhD,
wonders if the wrong new director may set back positive
steps taken in recent years. Others wonder if a fix is already in. What
ever, it's time for the CAM and integrative medicine community to say
enough is enough: If we are moving toward one standard of "good
medicine," it's time we have a single standard on how to select leaders
... Meantime, if you know any good candidates, urge them to apply, or submit their names directly to NCCAM. More
March 3, 2007
A new biennial award, the Dr. Rogers Prize, is outspending the Bravewell Collaborative in offering
a $250,000 award to a single practitioner or researcher. While Bravewell has focused its prize on leaders in
"integrative medicine," its Canadian counterpart will go to an individual
who has advanced "complementary and alternative medicine" in that country.
Are these big awards to a single individual appropriate in what has fundamentally been a
sociocultural movement? Might Dr. Rogers' advisors convince them that honoring
5 or 6, as Bravewell will do in 2007, is better than trying to select
just one? And will the Canadian award finally acknowledge that there
are practitioners outside of the MD and conventional academic zones
who merit honoring? More
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