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

This typically monthly Integrator feature is, for March 2015, a quick capture of highlights from the stories that flow in daily from various sources relative to "integrative medicine." Here are 26 selections related to hospitals and medical organizations and integrative medicine, plus 5 from alternative and integrative medicine in community non-system practices. (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.)

In Hospitals and Medical Delivery Organizations

• Yale IM leader and American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) chief David Katz, MD, MPH has announced the all MD line-up of keynotes for the ACLM meeting.
• The Lee Memorial Hospital IM program in Lee County, Florida, is finding a strong public response according to this article.
• Leaders of the Michigan Spectrum Center for Integrative Medicine are lauding IM as the new direction for the ER at a hospital at nearby Grand Haven.
• The Connor Integrative Medicine Network at Cleveland's University Hospitals provides some outcomes of services to large area employers.
• The Lake Norman Regional Medicine Center in North Carolina features an oncology nurse as head of an evolving IM program.
• The director of the IM program at Boston Medical Center Robert Saper, MD is among the PIs in this look at PTs plus cognitive behavioral therapy for low back pain.
• An integrative medicine leader from the South Georgia Archibald Memorial Hospital IM program is speaking at a Thomas University function.
• This Sioux Falls Veteran's program is reaching vets via services of an integrative health coach. 
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  Alan Gaby,MD: converted a naysaying MD
  
  The influence of Alan Gaby, MD in transforming this conservative Mt. Sinai-Beth Israel MD into an IM doctor is discussed here.
• Linda Reed, RN, MBA, behavioral health and IM leader at Atlantic Health System was listed in a top 100 for Becker's Hospital Review.
• Maryland's Shore Regional Health's IM program is advertising the hiring of two new members of their team, a massage therapist and a mental health worker. 
• Integrative care will be featured at this Highlands Hospital event.
• The Massage Today article highlights the U Maryland inpatient integrative care team.
• The IM program at Detroit-area Beaumont health system gets a solid plug in this profile of a cancer survivor.
• Another IM doctor publicizing her recent ABOIM certification is Suzanne Bartlett, MD of the Integrative Medicine Center at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids.
• The recent rash of announcements of integrative pediatrics centers has a new one, with integrative medicine part of this Boston Medical Center initiative.
• IM leaders and others have prevailed in an effort to keep Sonoma County's Palm Drive Hospital open.
• The Methodist Health System in Dallas has brought an MD with an IM specialty onto its medical advisory board.
• Patrick Massey, MD, PhD an IM doctor with Alexian Brothers posted a supportive column here in the Chicago Daily News.
• A presentation from Eric Secor, ND, PhD the associate director of IM at Hartford Hospital is the subject of this article. The article notes Secor just earned an NIH K-08 award.
• The US Pharmacopeia has announced its support for IM educator and policy leader Tieraona Lowdog, MD's "Herbal Insight" award from the American Herbal Products Association. Lowdog is also a midwife and an herbalist.
• The integrative medicine program at Florida's Lee Memorial Health system gets a positive plug here in this Gannet paper.
• Karen Moody, MD, leader of Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health's Integrative Medicine and Palliative Care Team is a happy recipient of a $40,000 grant from Northwestern Mutual of Indianapolis.
• Jennifer Baker-Porazinski, MD, a student in the U Az fellowship who is associated with the Glens Falls Hospital is presenting on IM for a women's club in Salem, New York.
• Massage therapist Kathleen Wing is the featured "integrative care coordinator" on this article on IM options at the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing at Central Maine Medical Center.
• Randy Horowitz, MD from the AzCIM gets some ink for his talk on food and lifestyle.

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  Regionally accredited IM institution
  
  A $3-million grant for an integrative oncology study featuring naturopathic integrative care links researchers at two naturopathic medical schools.
• The Puyallup tribe in Washington State has announced plans for the first ever, tribal-owned, integrative oncology center in a planned 8200 square foot facility.
• The Pacific College of Oriental Medicine - has sent an official release on its regional accreditation - positioning the institution as "now part of the first wave of integrative medicine schools to be regionally accredited."
• The ND-led and interprofessional TAP Integrative 501c3 initiative, backed by Integrative Therapeutics, has signed a partnership with Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.
• Angelina Jolie made the news in her New York Times op-ed piece in which she referenced "naturopaths" and TCM as part of her sources on her health choices. The original is here.