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Quick Links to Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: March 2015 |
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Written by John Weeks
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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
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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.
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The Lee Memorial Hospital IM program in
Lee County, Florida, is finding a strong public response according to this
article.
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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.
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The
Connor Integrative Medicine Network at Cleveland's University Hospitals
provides some outcomes of services to large area employers.
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The Lake Norman Regional Medicine Center in North Carolina
features an oncology nurse as head of an evolving
IM program.
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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.
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An integrative medicine leader from the South Georgia
Archibald Memorial Hospital IM program is
speaking at a Thomas University function.
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This Sioux
Falls Veteran's program is reaching vets via services of an integrative
health coach.
 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.
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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.
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Integrative care will be featured at this Highlands
Hospital event.
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The Massage Today article highlights the U Maryland inpatient
integrative care team.
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The IM program at Detroit-area Beaumont health system gets
a solid plug in this profile of a cancer survivor.
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Another IM doctor publicizing her recent ABOIM
certification is Suzanne
Bartlett, MD of the Integrative Medicine Center at Mercy Medical Center in
Cedar Rapids.
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The recent rash of announcements of integrative pediatrics
centers has a new one, with integrative medicine part of this Boston
Medical Center initiative.
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IM leaders and others have prevailed in an effort to keep
Sonoma County's Palm Drive Hospital open.
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The Methodist Health System in Dallas has brought an MD
with an IM specialty onto its medical
advisory board.
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Patrick Massey, MD, PhD an IM doctor with Alexian
Brothers posted a supportive column here in the Chicago Daily News.
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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.
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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.
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The integrative medicine program at Florida's Lee
Memorial Health system gets a positive
plug here in this Gannet paper.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Randy Horowitz, MD from the AzCIM gets some ink for his
talk on food and lifestyle.
Integrative Health and Medicine in Communities
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