Brief Notes, Links and Personnel News

Personnel and Organizations

Reed Phillips, PhD, DC

Reed Phillips, PhD, DC, is the first chair-person for the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ACCAHC), a working group of

Will Morris, LAc

National Education Dialogue to Advance Integrated Health Care (NED) has named to itssteering committee Will Morris, LAc, president of the Academy of Oriental Medicine of Austin. Morris is also president of the American Association of Oriental Medicine. JoAnn "Joey" Tall, LAc, president of the Santa Barbara College of Acupuncture has joined the Values

JoAnn Tall, LAc

Working Group of the NED, a project led by holistic nursing leader Carla Mariano, RN, EdD ...

Clinical Services and Delivery

John Pan, MD

John Pan, MD, founder of the integrative medicine program at George Washington University has developed a visual diagram which he calls the "Constellation of Healing and Disease" which he finds to be very useful in educating patients about the diverse contributions to their health. Part of his practice of patient-centered care is to have patients tell him which determinants that they would like to focus on in a given session. Pan is the co-chair of the Education Working Group of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine ...

Kaiser Northern California has purchased "a giant batch" of custom labelled "successful surgery" mind-body CDs, according to a March 8, 2006 e-newsletter from the supplier company, Health Journeys. Editor Belleruth Naparstek thanks David Sobel, MD, for his vision 15 years ago in supporting this addition to care, and to the more recent work of Harley Goldberg, DO, the staff-model HMO's director of integrative medicine ...

Tabatha Parker, ND, co-founder of Natural Doctors International shares with IBN&R that the organization's clinic on Ometepe Island in Nicaragua saw 1000 patients in its first year. The clinic is taking on its third naturopathic physician and will host groups of preceptors from National College of Naturopathic Medicine and the University of Bridgeport Program in Naturopathic Medicine

Tabatha Parker, ND, and Nicaraguan

this coming year ... An exceptional new force in integrated care on the acupuncture side is the introduction of clinical doctorate programs in a growing number of mainly West Coast AOM schools. Most of the schools are busy setting up clinical relationships with hospitals and other mainstream delivery sites as part of their responsibility to provide the hours their doctoral students need. For the conventional delivery center, this means that they have a chance to provide inexpensive or no-cost services, not by AOM students, but of licensed AOM professionals who are returning for the doctoral program. Jeanette Painovich, LAc, a doctoral student at Emperors College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, in Los Angeles, describes such a relationship, with Good Samaritan Hospital, in a recent issue of Acupuncture Today. The acupuncturists are onsite six days a week and reportedly well-integrated into the hospital's inpatient care delivery ...

Education and Resources

The Institute for Functional Medicine, founded by Jeffrey Bland, PhD,  has published its long-awaited Textbook of Functional Medicine. IFM's training is viewed as essential by a growing cadre of medical doctors, including several who came through the family-medicine/integrative medicine residency sponsored by New York Beth Israel. The volume, edited by Sheila Quinn, who is also chair of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium, has over 800 pages, 37 chapters and 47 contributing authors across diverse disciplines (MD, ND, DC, DO, PhD). Quinn tells IBN&R that initial sales have been strong and IFM is moving to a second printing  ...  Nancy Faass, MSW, MPH, whose edited compendium Integrating Complementary Medicine into Health Systems, reports that the book has over $100,000 in sales since it was sold to Jones and Bartlet Publishing. She has recently completed a second book with David Rakel, MD, Complementary Medicine in Clinical Practice ... Pali Delevitt, founder of Global Medicine Education Foundation which was featured in IBN&R #1, notes that the 18 month program in Transformative Medicine is now scheduled to start October 8-15, 2006 at a new Colorado location. New faculty include Reed Phillips, PhD, DC for chiropractic and Holly Lucille, ND for naturopathic medicine ... The integrative medicine program at Mayo Clinic, headed up by Brent Bauer, MD, is providing its growing numbers of involved practitioners with access to the TV-linked IM presentations out of University of Texas/MD Anderson ...

Margaret Chesney, PhD, of NCCAM is among those presenting at an April 27-29 conference sponsored by the UCSD School of Medicine entitled "Pain Management in Women Over the Lifecycle" ... 

Policy Developments