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

This Integrator feature is a quick capture of highlights from stories on the web relative to integrative medicine in the prior month. Here are 20 involving medical delivery systems and 11 more in communities. Of particular note are a widely picked up article on integrative care for the elderly out of Thomas Jefferson University; publication of research on acupuncture and its potential role in managing blood pressure, led by John Longhurst, MD at the Susan Samueli Institute; and a review of whole system research on integrative health and medicine in systems from Australia's Alan Bensussan, PhD that shows how little quality information we have on the topic.  (Note that Global News Links are now posted at The Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances in Health and Medicine Journal.)

 



In Health Systems

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  Russ Greenfield, MD: on yoga
  
  Integrative medicine practitioner Russ Greenfield, MD and a yoga practitioner from the Duke IM program are interviewed in this article on yoga.Richard Lee, MD of the U Texas IM program is featured in this Houston piece on the value of Qigong.
• NYU IM doctor and author Dennis Goodman, MD is featured in this FOX News piece on magnesium.
• This announcement features the mini-medical school for the public sponsored by the UCSF Osher Center and this separate note features their lecture series.
• This article looks at the University of Mississippi's twice monthly IM clinic, reportedly aligned with the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health.
• Seymour, Indiana is the new site of the IM program at Schneck Medical Center.
• The Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) has formed a partnership with the Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine for its new fellowship program led by Tieraona Low Dog, MD.
• Alisha Money, MD, ABIHM, a holistic-IM doctor who is senior adviser to the Department of Homeland Security, has been honored by the Aspen Institute with a fellowship.
• A study of an interprofessional integrative nutrition program called Integrative Medical Nutrition Therapy involving the IM program at the University of Kansas is profiled here.
• Integrative medicine at the University of Kentucky for treatment of gout and other pain management is covered here.
• Chris D'Adamo of the U Maryland IM program is featured in this USA Today news story on health benefits of spices.
• The IM program at Delaware's Nemours-DuPont Hospital for Children is featured here.
• A member of Ted Kaptchuk's Harvard placebo team will present at UCSF on the genetics-placebo connection, a.k.a. the "placebome."
• The work led by John Longhurst, MD at the Susan Samueli Center for IM at UC Irvine on acupuncture lowering blood pressure is noted here.
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  John Longhurst, MD: acupuncture and BP
  
  The Duke Center for IM got a small plug in this interesting piece on a collaboration between two institutions, one Eastern Virginia Medical School, related to "narrative medicine."
• A study out of Thomas Jefferson University on use of CAM among senior oncology patients picked up significant media, including here.
• The "whole person" and "integrative" approach to care in the Adventist system in Portland if featured.
• The Integrative Healthcare Symposium in Canada has announced a plenary talk from Dr. Rogers' Prize award winner Sunita Vohra, MD for its October 23-24, 2015 event in Ontario.
• Memorial Sloan Kettering's Maureen Salaman published a piece on three "cancer cures" that aren't.
• This article in Pain Medicine News credits the University of Minnesota's IM-Peds program for being leading edge.

• The Rhode Island-based Centers for Integrative Medicine and Health uses the failures of conventional medicine to promote its brand.
• IM physician Mimi Guarneri, MD is the subject of the 10 questions section in La Jolla Light.
• A paper co-authored by Alan Bensoussan entitled "Process of care in outpatient Integrative healthcare facilities: a systematic review of clinical trials" found just 5 that met inclusion criterion, among 6,250 papers reviewed.
• Philanthropist and strategic in integrative health and medicine has announced an investment in the Integrator Blog News & Reports for 2015-2017.
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  Jeff Bland, PhD: keynote for Dr. Rogers Prize
  
  The most significant financial prize in complementary and integrative medicine, the Dr. Rogers Prize, will be announced in a function keynoted by Jeffrey Bland, ND, on September 25, 2015 in Vancouver, BC.
• A relatively balanced piece in the New York Times on science and alternatives received a lot of play.
• Nurses in Lancaster, PA have opened a chapter of the American Holistic Nurses Association.
• Acupuncturist and Polish trained medical doctor Tad Sztykowski continues to promote his Centers for Integrative Medicine and Healing as the nation's "leading and most advanced integrative medicine clinic" in one more in a series of media releases in recent months.
• Ronald Hoffman, MD promoted his most recent post on food addiction through this release.
• A DOP/ND led "Integrative Medicine Academy" is offering a 9 week G.I. course.
• The "speed-dating" clinical team-building strategy at the integrative medicine PCMH Casey Health Institute is described in this Integrator piece.