From Google: Links to Integrative Medicine in Hospitals, Health Systems and Media in December 2012

This monthly report includes 35 short segments, with links, on developments in integrative medicine in hospitals, academic health centers and health systems from mid-November through December 9, 2012. This month's reports includes some from the non-health system community of integrative practices to provide more balance on the range of developments associated with integrative medicine. Included are centers in New Jersey, Connecticut, North Carolina, California, Texas, Colorado and much more.

• The CBS Philadelphia affiliate interviewed Myra Brind Center for Integrative Medicine physician and researcher Andy Newburg, MD for a feature on the value of a week-long spa treatment.
• Duke Integrative Medicine announced a conference on therapeutic yoga for seniors.
• Connecticut's New Milford Hospital hosted a public talk on integrative medicine moderated by the hospital’s integrative medicine coordinator Susan Twombly.
  
• MED Illinois Reports prominently featured Melinda Ring, MD from the Northwestern Integrative Medicine in a piece entitled Integrative medicine: combining the best of both worlds.
  
• Also from Myrna Brind Center, director Daniel Monti, MD was featured in this piece on how meditation and art therapy can "change your brain and lower anxiety."
  
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  Ring: Northwestern leader featured
  
  Healing healthcare programs from various health systems are referenced in this column from Integrator adviser Sita Ananth, MHA in the American Hospital Association's Hospitals and Health Systems.
• The University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine's new clinic in Phoenix is featured in this article.
  
• The Spectrum Health Group Medical Center for Integrative Medicine's ability to hold down ER costs  will be assisted be a new Robert Wood Johnson grant. 
  
• The MCJ Amelior Foundation awarded $3 million to support the Center for Well Being, which features comprehensive holistic, integrative and lifestyle management programming at the Morristown Medical Center. 
  
• Medical acupuncturist Rebecca Blumberg, MD has joined the veterinary medicine teaching hospital at Colorado State University.
• The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center promoted a webinar on integrative medicine for cancer survivorship.
• The Galveston County Daily News reported that the UTMB Cancer Center at Victory Lakes "will be joining the ranks of most major national cancer centers in offering integrative oncology consultation services."
• Greenwich Hospital integrative medicine lead Henri Roca, MD was featured on this Eyewitness Morning news show.
  
• The Hunterton Medical Center in LeHigh Valley, PA received a $1-million grant for in integrative medical center.
• The Center for Integrative Medicine at Fort Bliss was featured in a photo in this Stars and Stripes article on pain treatment in the military.
  
• Bill George posted a link to his spouse Penny George, PhD's talk on integrative medicine at Emory University.
• Integrative medical expertise from Brent Bauer, MD, IM lead at Mayo Clinic, was featured in a new Time book on Alternative Medicine.
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  Abrams: interviewed in key cancer journal
  
  University of Arizona's Andrew Weil, MD has rolled out his new True Food cookbook.
  
• The Samueli Institute wrote up its' October 23, 2012 dinner event that highlighted changes in integrative medicine curriculum.
• UCSF integrative oncologist Donald Abrams, MD is featured in this i9nterview on the benefits of integrative medicine for cancer in the ASCO Post.
• Research from Maharishi College of Perfect Health that shows the value of transcendental meditation in the health of black people was featured here.
• James M. Perrin, MD, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, and the new president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics offers his comments on complementary and alternative medicine here.
• MD Anderson is promoting its first Integrative Oncology Healthcare Professional Training Course for February 2013.
• Levine Cancer Institute at Carolinas Healthcare System is promoting its integrative oncology program.
  

• The Vail Integrative Medicine Group in Colorado announced it has brought in Palmer College graduate and chiropractor Karla Solumn, DC.
• Dr. Oz invited Atlanta Center for Holistic and Integrative Medicine founder Tasbeen Bhatia, MD onto the show to talk about immune system remedies.
  
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  Eliaz: posts integrative oncology slideshow
  
  The multi-location Rothfeld Center for Integrative medicine participated in a special Group-on deal.
• The Advanced Back and Neck Care Center in Connecticut announced the addition of two new doctors, Amy Cannatta, DC and Olympia Dreszer, ND, LAc.
• A major new development in Chattanooga will include the Center for Integrative Medicine as part of a 20,000 square foot medical facility.
• Southwest Integrative Medicine pumped its seasonal flu therapies.
• Isaac Eliaz, MD, LAc of the Amitabha Medical Clinic and Health Center in Santa Rosa has posted his 145 slide presentation on Principles of Integrative Oncology for public consumption.
  
• The Pain Center of Arizona promoted complementary treatments for arthritis from a nursing study in a nursing journal.
• The Integrative Medicine Center, LLC, run by Robert L. Bastress II, LAc, DiplAc gained some visibility through a promotion on back pain treatment.
• Felice Gersh, MD of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine published this news of becoming only the second gynecologist in California to complete the University of Arizona fellowship in integrative medicine.
  
• Acupuncturist Stephanie Ball, LAc of Purple Mountain Integrated Health Healing Arts boasts her integrative oncology training from Memorial Sloan Kettering here.