Issue #92-#93- September-October 2011
Issue
#93 - November 3, 2011
Integrative
community dialogue on board certified integrative MDs and the direction
of "integrative medicine" ... Congressional Wellness Caucus established
with bipartisan backing ... Obama names Kahn and Ornish to Advisory
Group for National Prevention Council ... IHPC's Parters for Health
group expands ... Integrative medicine not featured at TEDMED 2011, moves to the Beltway in 2012 ...
Knutson urges response to US Preventive Medicine Task Force ...
Dartmouth researcher Davis breaks down $$$ in CAM market ... Bastyr
reports $136-million of economic impact ... CHP Group offers case
statement for CAM integration ... Steiner Leisure purchases Cortiva
Group ... Sabin on role of philanthropy in integrative medicine ...
Chesney in line to chair conventional academic consortium ...
Acupuncturist Beau Anderson gains faculty appointment at Albert Einstein
... Taylor Walsh adds perspective on debate over whether alternative
medicine killed Steve Jobs ... IAYT's John Kepner addresses the Group
Health findings relative to "sham yoga" ... Report on naturopathic
profession's Science & Policy Summit ... Chiropractors push
inclusion in loan repayment ... New Hampshire Republicans cross party
line to support mandate to cover naturopathic doctors ... Acupuncture
Without Borders in tough financial position ... American Medical Student
Association leader is a naturopathic medical student, SCNM's Rebecca
Snowden ... Zunin's Manakai
O Malama, Hawai'i's most significant integrative
center, seeks additional integrative MD/DO ... Christina Jackson named
the 2011 Holistic Nurse of the Year ... Rita Bettenburg takes position
at CHP Group. More
October 29, 2011
The
discussion of the origins, intentions and ramifications of the move to
create a formal integrative medicine specialty through the American
Board of Integrative Medicine (ABIM) produced 5 additional, especially
thoughtful responses. These had a chance to first read the forum of 20
voices. These five are: former Integrated
Healthcare Policy Consortium chair Sheila Quinn; Daniel Redwood, DC, Cleveland College of Chiropractic faculty member and writer on policy issues; past American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA) board member Kjersten Gmeiner, MD; AHMA founder and past American
Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABIHM) executive director
Robert Anderson, MD; and ABIHM co-founder Bill Manahan, MD.
These provide balanced, watchful, mainly supportive comments and advice
to the founding ABIM board members. Can the ABIM demonstrate that they
are not like all the others? More
October 22, 2011
The Vancouver, B.C.-based
organizers of the 2011 Dr. Rogers' Prize asked me to help kick off the
afternoon Colloquium that preceded the black-tie event. Their theme was
integrative clinic models. They wanted a look at trends in integrative medicine
internationally, though focusing principally on the United States. I'd
have 10 minutes and would be followed by Steven Carter speaking at
similar length on Canadian trends. After Cartr gave me an okay to
publish his comments, I thought why not publish mine. I am curious about
any major blind spots. What did I miss or should have included to give
that audience a better picture of the world integrative that is
emerging. (Congratulations to Marja Verhoef, PhD on winning the $250,000
prize!). More
October 15, 2011
Steven Carter, the long-time editor of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
As such, he has been a fixture, organizer, writer and observer of the
development on complementary, alternative and integrative medicine in
Canada for over 2 decades. Carter was asked by the organizers of the
2011 Dr. Rogers Prize to delivery a 10 minute overview on the state of
these developments in his country. He touches on recent controversies
with complementary medicine and Ontario physicians, the IN-CAM national
network, the coverage plan in British Columbia and what he sees as a
threat to access to natural products. I thought Carter's review might be
of interest to Integrator readers and asked him if I might publish it. He agreed. More
October 14, 2001
The Integrator Special
Report on the decision of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
to promote a board specialty in integrative medicine has proved the most
widely read Integrator piece in 2 years. Opinions vary. Mostly they are
strongly held. None doubt the significance of the moment. Here are Bill
Manahan, MD, NCMIC, Lou Sportelli, DC, Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD, Pamela
Weeks, MA, Taylor Walsh, Jim Winterstein, DC, Kevin Wilson, ND, Richard
"Buz" Cooper, MD, DSc, Bill Reddy, LAc, DiplAc, Chris Foley, MD, Nancy
Gahles, DC, CCH, RSHom, Patrick Massey, MD, PhD, Andrew Rubman, ND,
Stephen Marini, MS, PhD, DC, actuary Heather McLeod, plus an
anonymous MD, anonymous chiropractor academic, anonymous journalist,
anonymous integrative medicine academic; plus, special bonus, a couple
of the prominent anti-quackademic bloggers. I hope this exchange will be constructively utilized. Most of these comments beg this question: What
relationship should the guild of Board Certified Integrative Medical
Doctors strike with other practitioners if their interest is, in fact, the positive transformation of our system? I splice my own musings and perspectives throughout. Thank you each for contributing. More
Issue
#92 - October 11, 2011October 11, 2011
Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) hears from complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM) group, pushes research culture change ...
IHPC's Kahn appointed to Advisory Group to National Prevention Council
... Canadian survey suggests cost effectiveness of naturopathic services
... Weil's Arizona Center announces move to formally develop
integrative medicine and medical specialty ... American Academic of
Family Physicians pass resolution against naturopathic physicians in
primary care ... Chiropractors pass resolutions against AMA activity
that fosters discrimination ... Family doctors fighting against doctors
of nursing ... Massage summit identifies needs in education and
licensing standards ... National acupuncture group announces strategic
planning ... National College of Natural Medicine begins naturopathic
medicine for chiropractors programs .. Tai Sophia Institute in new
medical herbalism offering ... New York Chiropractic adds sports
medicine certification ... PBS "Curious George" engages curiosity about
acupuncture and naturopathic medicine ... Growth in employment in
MD-academic medicine ... Columbia pediatric oncology group publishes
book ... Marja Verhoef wins $250,000 Dr. Rogers Prize ... Mimi Guarneri,
MD to be honored with Bravewell's leadership award ... Berkley Bedell
and Gladys McGarey, MD highlighted at Samueli Institute 10th anniversary
event ... Tabatha Parker, ND with Natural Doctors International one of
25 leaders featured by Utne Reader ... In Memoriam: Lee
Lipsenthal, MD ... Pharmacognocist and medicinal plant researcher and
long-time American Botanical Council trustee Norman Farnsworth, PhD dies
at 81 ... Keith Overland, DC elected president of the American
Chiropractic Association ... Linda Bark, RN, PhD, MCC publishes whole
person coaching book More
October 1, 2011
Hospital and health system environments have
proved
challenging for sustainable integrative business models. Talk of
philanthropy is never far from the table. In this article, Integrator
adviser Glenn Sabin offers a view of philanthropy's role, including his
perspective on where donated support is appropriate and where
non-sustainable. I follow Sabin's take with some additional perspective:
first, on a "glass ceiling" relative to philanthropy and some
integrative practice, and second, on the hydroponics of the seemingly
symbiotic integrative MD-philanthropic relationship. Most
philanthropists grow weary at some point. How long will integrative
medicine's philanthropic partnership last? More
September 28, 2011
Lee Lipsenthal, MD died on September 20, 2011. He
played key roles in promoting a more humane, integrative health care
and a model of "health creation" as one of his friends and colleagues in
this series of notes and remembrances. Lipsenthal served with such
leading entities as the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, the
American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and his own Finding
Balance in a Medical Life program to help physicians re-connect with
healing. Here are comments on Lipsenthal from Scott Shannon, Victoria
Maizes, Dean Ornish, Wendy Warner, Vic Sierpina, Karen Lawson and Dave
Rakel. More
September 26, 2011
Consider the irony in
establishing a research institute to prioritize patient-centered interests and
outcomes. Shouldn't this be the focus of all healthcare research? The Board of Governors of
the new quasi-governmental Patient Centered Outcomes Research
Institute (PCORI) is taking the patient-centered charge seriously.
They view themselves as leaders of a significant culture change in
research. The 4 questions they
urge researchers to answer will resonate with those whose practices,
and outcomes, are whole-person and integrative. In a recent Seattle
meeting, the Board strategized how to
meet its considerable challenges, including the strangling of innovation
from the pharma mind that dominates research. Among those presenting in Seattle was a panel on complementary and alternative medicine. CAM is a mandated PCORI interest. Here
is a look at PCORI's recent Board of Governor's meeting and a few of the directions urged by that panel. More
September 21, 2011
In a major strategic
shift, the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (ACIM)
has announced that it will lead the creation of a formal specialty for medical doctors in integrative medicine. ACIM, founded by Andrew Weil, MD and directed by Victoria Maizes, MD, is in dialogue with the American Board of Physician Specialties toward establishing an American Board of Integrative Medicine. They
are collaborating with leaders of the American Board of Integrative and
Holistic Medicine (ABIHM). Here is the ACIM announcement, a statement
from two ABIHM leaders, a brief interview with Maizes and the list of 18
founding Board members. Is this the right strategic choice? What impact
will this have on integrative medicine and the broader integrative
healthcare movement? More
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