From Google Alerts: Links to Integrative Medicine in Health Systems and Communities for June 2013

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  Ka-Kit Hui, MD: video interview at Stanford
  
  Local radio reports the grand opening at University of Cincinnati Health of an Integrative Medicine Department run by IM leader Stephanie Stephenson, MD. Here is the official launch page.
  
• Chicago Daily Herald featured this post "Integrative Medicine Making Inroads" from Patrick Massey, MD, jntegrative medicine leader for Alexian Brothers Health System. He featured the U Arizona program from which he completed a fellowship.
  
• The QiGong study on lowering depression out of the MD Anderson jntegrative medicine center is the focus of this Medical Daily article. Lorenzo Cohen, PhD led the study.  BioNews Texas also reported the study as did the Houston Chronicle.
  
• This page guides donors to various IM funds at the University of Wisconsin program.
  
• The Integrative Medicine at Montefiori hospital in the Bronx positions its jntegrative medicine program as patient-centered and healing arts focused.
  
• The UCSF Osher Center has posted details of its June 1, 2013 15th Annual Integrative Medicine Forum. An acupuncturist and a massage therapist are part of a program that is topped by Dean Ornish, MD.
• Duke Integrative Medicine featured a presentation by author Susan Susanka on her book The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters.
  
• Yale University IM leader David Katz, MD, MPH has taken a position as chief scientific and medical adviser with supplement manufacturer Direct Digital, LLC.
  
• A presentation by U Arizona jntegrative medicine fellow Uday Jani, MD, associated with Delaware's Beebe Medical Center is here.
• Westerly Hospital in Connecticut took a great leap forward and allowed discussion of alternative medicine.
• The jntegrative medicine program at Virginia Commonwealth University's Massey Cancer Center is here.
  
• The Center for Excellence at Stanford University posted this 13 minute interview with Ka-Kit Hui, MD, the leader of the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine.
  
• David Guillon, MD, integrative oncologist with Marin General Hospital, is honored here.
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  Philanthropist Penny George
  
  The continuing development of standards in integrative health coaching at Duke Integrative Medicines is evident here.
• The article in Family Medicine surveys clinician backgrounds of IM practitioners in the US academic health centers.
• Philanthropist and backer of the Allina integrative medicine initiative Penny George writes on integrative medicine and why it's critical for health care reform in this Huffington Post piece.
• Writers Glenn Sabin and Taylor Walsh opine on Integrative Medicine: Solution to Primary Care Crisis?
  
• Writing as an Integrative Health Coaching Tool is the subject of a fall seminar at Duke Integrative Medicine.
  
• Memorial Sloan Kettering's Barrie Cassileth, PhD is featured in this piece from the Jamestown Sun (Florida) on pros and cons in integrative oncology.
  
• Robert Bulgarelli,DO, director of integrative cardiovascular medicine at Main Line Health System was authored this piece in Philadelphia Magazine.
  

• The opening of the Casey Health Institute in Gaithersberg, Maryland, is featured in his press release.
  
• Here is a view on integrative medicine and health from the chiropractor-founded and now multidisciplinary National University of Health Sciences.
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  Ilana Bar-Levav, MD and David Fogel, MD from the Casey Health Institute
  
  Naturopathic physician and acupuncturist Kara Burkhart, ND, MSA and internist Julian Nieves, MD, MOH opened their Salud Primary Care and Integrative in Farmington, Connecticut. Their bilingual services are noted here.
• The naturopathic form of integrative medicine got play in this Huffington Post article on some research from Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine.
• Atlanta integrative medicine clinic, SEMC, announced its partnership with Cardinal Web Solutions.
  
• "New DAOM Faculty Support Integrative Medicine Focus" is the header for this post from AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, an acupuncture and Oriental medicine institution in Austin.