Quick Links to Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: February 2015

This typically monthly Integrator feature is, for February 2015, a quick capture of highlights from the stories that flow in daily from various sources relative to "integrative medicine." A remarkable trend is the number of stories about new medical hires who advertise their completion of the U Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine. Here are 24 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and integrative medicine, plus just 2 from alternative and integrative medicine in community non-system practices for February 2015. For you paying attention: January got by me without competing this practice. Apologies. When time allows, this practice continues to astound. Critical mass! (Note that Global News Links are now posted at The Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances in Health and Medicine - see related notice here. Exciting development.)

Institutional Medical Delivery

• New 10,000 square foot pediatric integrative center at the University of Minnesota describes itself as the first of its kind in the world.
• Deborah Ballard, MD, ABIHM is the featured integrative medicine practitioner in this expansion of KentuckyOne Health's lifestyle-oriented wellness initiative. She got an push here.
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  Katz: a chair, a coalition
  
  Vitamin manufacturer NBTY kicked off its Scientific Advisory Council boasting its chair, Yale's IM leader David Katz, MD, MPH.
• More on Katz:in a long piece for US News & World Reports, he reveals that he's developing a "true health coalition" with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
• The Estevan Medical Group operating in the St. Joseph's Foundation facilities in Saskatchewan,Canada has welcomed a recent graduate of the U Arizona fellowship, anesthesiologist Anthony Davis, MD.
• Swedish American Hospital in Rockville, Illinois is claiming that its integrativeand holistic medicine expansion is outcomes driven.
• An anti-IM blogger at Northwestern took a shot at IM there in the biased vein of the polarizationbasedmedicine.com crew.
• A medical student leader at U Pitt got interviewed in a piece on controversies over vaccines.
• On the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, Jefferson Healthcare and Jefferson Mental Health Services (JMHS) have teamed up to hire Susan M. Ehrlich, MD, a graduate of the U Arizona IM program.
• Maryland's Shore Regional IM Center features its acupuncture-based smoking cessation program.
• First Choice Emergency Medicine has hired U Arizona IM graduate Lauren Grossman to their Littleton, Colorado facility.
• The 10,500 square foot build-out of the Raby Institute of Integrative Medicine at Northwestern has been completed.
• Pediatric care for children's attitudes is the focus of this piece from the University of New Mexico's Center for Life Integrative Medicine Clinic.
• Linda Baleneaves, MD, the first director of the U Toronto IM program speaks to its Centre for Integrative Medicine, a partnership between the University of Toronto and The Scarborough Hospital-Birchmount campus.
• Success in the first round of Board Certification in Integrative Medicine from ABPS was cause for this Scripps IM doctor Valencia Porter, MD, MPH to celebrate herself as one of the first such in the U.S.
• A Dr. Heilman at the Baylor School of Medicine who completed the U Arizona program in 2014 speaks to the use of arts in healing.
• Chambers Center for Health and Well-Being at Atlantic Health System is sponsoring a talk from Andrew Weil, MD.
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  Asimus: generous gift
  
  The University of Cincinnati IM program received $300,000 of donations, including $50,000 from alum Dan Asimus, MD, and his spouse. Asimus is a leader of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine.
• The University of Cincinnati IM program also picked up some ink for helping patients with pain "focus more on life and less on pain."
• FoodWorldNews features a Scripps IM doctor David Leopold, MD talking the importance of supplements in natural pain treatment.
• The American Board of Integrative Medicine sent a release welcoming its first 121 ABoIM board certified doctors.
• Legacy Health and the chiropractic-based University of Western States have established a partnership to put chiropractors in emergency rooms.
• The East Tennessee Status University Integrative IM clinic is the focus of this piece which speaks to both osteopathic and traditional Chinese medicine options for pain.
• IM figures heavily in the Sebastapol, California community's efforts to re-open a hospital that parent compoany HCA closed.

• The Global Wellness Institute notes the roles of AIHM chair Danny Friedland, MD and Kenneth Pelletier, PhD, MD (hc) in developing their new Wellness Evidence site.
• The Florida team of Heather Auld, MD, and Teresa Spano, ND in Florida share their integrative philosophy and practice.