Quick Links to Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: October 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 31 involving medical delivery systems and 13 more in communities. Included is the remarkable move in Oregon Medicaid to cover massage, acupuncture, chiropractic and naturopathic services in pain treatment with the intent to limit opioid addiction. Check the effective, short interview with Penny George, the first Bravewell chair. Great post from Yale IM leader David Katz, MD, MPH taking on the polarization-based medicine leaders. Out in the community, naturopathic and homeopathic clinician and educator Amy Rothenberg, ND

• A U Penn study got some press on research showing alternative medicine useful against hot flashes.
• This article from US News & World Report speaks of the values of the NCCIH site as a resource on supplements.
• The VA program is looking at integrative strategies for pain.
• Harvard Pilgrim's Eastern Harmony program for covering acupuncture and other integrative services is here.
• Mitchell Gaynor, MD is portrayed in this Houston Chronicle article, following his death.
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  Penny George: quality interview
  
  Penny George of Allina's Penny George Institute is interviewed here regarding an Institute program on "transforming medicine."
  
• A new traditional center at the Alaskan community clinic is featured here. The first tribal doctor will be a massage therapists who will "continue doing massage and visceral manipulation, adding to them cultural elements, such as prayers and rituals, from Native tradition."
• Oregon Medicaid is covering integrative pain treatment including acupuncture, according to this NPR story.
• Wellness and preventive care education, as well as interprofessional care, are foci of this $8-million grant from the Mandell Foundation to Case Western/Cleveland Clinic.
• A study reported in Medical Express at Benson-Henry Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess, in Boston, led by Gloria Yeh, MD, MPH, showed a role of the physician-patient interaction for GERD. The researchers used homeopathics in one arm, though the role was downplayed in the report.
• Deepak Chopra, MD will keynote the 2015 Global Wellness Summit in Mexico City.
• Integrative practitioners will be familiar with these New Rules for the Radical Redesign of Health Care as promoted by the Institute for Health Improvement.
• IM doctor Daniel Niedes, MD at the Cleveland Clinic writes at Cleveland.com on the value of acupuncture.
• Clinical Advisor includes a piece by Mayo Clinic IM doctor Robert Sheeler, MD on probiotics.
• Sean Cotton, PhD from the U Cincinnati's IM program was among the attendees of a program looking at music and wellness therapy in home care.
• Spectrum Health Group's IM strategy for pain was sought out by Orange County, NY, when exploring solutions to their opioid problem.
• The University of Western States is promoting its role as an education center for the Fellowship in IM through the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine.
• IM and FM and interchangeable and promoted in this piece in Jewish Times by an LAc with Montefiore Health System.
• Also at Montefiore, the system announced a $1.2-million HRSA grant to establish an IM-focused preventive medicine residency.
• IM leaders at Stanford and Arizona are featured in this Time magazine piece on hypnosis.
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  David Katz,MD, MPH: taking on the polarizers
  
  Yale IM leader David Katz, MD, MPH takes on the "polarization-based medicine" (a.k.a. "science-based medicine") bloggers.
• The assistant director of the U Arizona program in IM Anne Marie Chiasson, MD, MPH is featured in this piece in the Jewish Post on energy healing.
• Beebe Healthcare in Delaware is sponsoring a lecture by Uday Jani, MD on IM.
• UPMC's "Medical Monday" focuses on the integrative oncology program.
• Ruth Wolever from Duke Integrative Medicine is lead author of the new book The Mindful Diet.
• This piece at SciDevNet views the Tu Youyou award as potentially good for Africa.
• A writer in India is claiming the Tu Youyou's knowledge may best be sourced to India.
• Tieraona Low Dog, MD, the director of the new AIHM Interprofessional Fellowship in Integrative Medicine is interviewed here.
• WNPR in Connecticut has posted a show with multiple panelists including the U Conn IM leader Mary Guerrera, MD asking whether the Tu Youyou Nobel means its "time to take TCM seriously."
• Greenville Health System's integrative oncologist Mark O'Rourke, MD speaks out in favor of the WHO's move against processed meat.
• A nice push here for an integrative chaplain associated with the Mary Washington Hospital Regional Cancer Clinic.

• This NewsMax article picks up on the web-based articles that holistic doctors are dying mysteriously. This was provoked by the death of integrative doctor Mitch Gaynor, MD, ruled a suicide.  A list of deaths is here.
• Yo San University of TCM received a $1-million gift from the Thomas Blount Foundation.
• Mayo trained IM doctor Aunna Pourang, MD is opening a new practice in L.A.
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  Modalities or professions?
  
  The Rand Corporation published an exceptional look at the modality/profession issue in the integrative health professions - work led by Patricia Herman, ND, PhD.
• Integrative nurse practitioner Shelly Kirk, NP, in Utah uses Breast Cancer Awareness for a talk on integrative strategies.
• Homeopathic educator and naturopathic doctor Amy Rothenberg, ND shares her cancer journey in seven short videos.
• Hawai'ian IM leader Ira Zunin, MPH writes about the Tu Youyou Nobel.
• Mid-Florida Integrative Medicine has published an online guide to integrative practitioners in the area.
• George Gavila, MD, who advertises his time as a resident at the IM program at U Maryland is pushing his new face lift procedure.
• Something called Quantum University has produced the online World Summit of Integrative Medicine that claims to be the largest gathering of its kind, drawing 21,000 to its online meeting in October 2015.
• Pioneer in IM Elson Haas, MD has released his 10^th book, this on one on "ultimate Immunity."
• The group Mid-Florida Integrative Medicine is showing Escape Fire.
• This article in Pharmacy Times is a good [portrait of a Dallas-Fort Worth integrative pharmacy, including business model numbers.