Integrative Medicine Symposium
Integrative Medicine (IM) is defined by the leading IM training center at the University of Arizona as "healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between practitioner and patient, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapies".
Combating the Opioid Crisis: Integrative Approaches for Pain Management
Join us for the 2nd Annual Integrative Medicine Symposium on April 12, 2019 at the TTUHSC Academic Classroom Building.
The symposium will help raise awareness of IM/CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) practice, demonstrate how IM may benefit health care, and promote interprofessional collaborations among conventional health care professionals and trainees.
Morning Session: Keynotes and Panel Discussion
Margaret Chesney, PhD
Keynote: Integrative Health and Medicine: A New Essential Partner in Effective Pain Management
Margaret Chesney is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Her research focuses on the role of the individual in health promotion, disease prevention, and optimal well-being across the life-span. She has developed personalized interventions that reduce stress, burnout and pain while improving overall health. Her interests include integrative health and wellness approaches that enhance health and quality of life for those with chronic conditions.
Margaret has served as the former chair of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health and past president of three leading organizations that focus on mind-body medicine, the Society for Health Psychology, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and the American Psychosomatic Society.
Bruce Watkins, PhD
Keynote: Natural Products and Chronic Pain
Bruce Watkins is a Purdue University Emeritus Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences. He is an adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Nutrition Research and currently a scientist and educator member of the University of Connecticut Health Center, Center on Aging, UConn AgingNet.
Panel Discussion: Pain Management
Panel Moderator: Dr. Volker Neugebauer
Panelists: Drs. Miles Day, John-Michel Brismee, Nakia Duncan, and Josee Guindon
Afternoon Session: Interactive Interprofessional Education Workshops
Learn how to apply the concepts of various Integrative Medicine modalities by attending the hands-on-training workshops offered during the afternoon session.
Each afternoon workshop will offer participants an opportunity to learn the history, concepts, and application of different integrative modalities that can be incorporated into patient care. The workshop sessions will be limited to small groups to assure ample personal attention from your instructor, all of whom are experts and accomplished practitioners in their respective modalities. Each hands-on-workshop will provide the opportunity to interact directly within an interprofessional team of students.
For afternoon workshop descriptions click here.
Workshop selection will be limited to one workshop per participant. Please indicate your top preferences when completing your registration information. Students will be notified of their placement following the close of registration and will be put into interprofessional teams for workshop discussion and interaction.
The 2019 Integrative Medicine Symposium workshops are a registered and approved IPE Learning Activity. Students participating in the afternoon session will receive a certificate documenting their attendance.
2017 Integrative Medicine Highlights
- Attended by 100+ students, faculty, and staff.
- Keynote presentations addressed how Alternative Medicine embraces the whole person while providing health benefits to patients.
- Workshops included 10 different IM modalities for students to choose from.
We should have this kind of IPE symposium more often.
2017 Student Participant
It was wonderful to see other approaches to healthcare.
2017 Faculty Participant
The hands-on workshops in the afternoon were incredible.
2017 Student Participant
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