Conference

Continuing Education Program

What: Integrative Medicine 101: Practical Approaches to Integrative Medicine for Primary Care Providers

When: Thursday October 28, 2010

Where: The Conference Center at Waltham Woods, 860 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451

Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Rakel, University of Wisconsin.

Course Directors
Brent Bauer, MD, Director of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic
Anne McCaffrey, MD, MPH, Marino Center and Harvard Medical School

This one-day course will focus on providing the knowledge and skills for providers to understand and begin to use integrative medicine. Recognized experts in the field of integrative medicine will facilitate this interactive and patient centered activity.

Target Audience
The conference welcomes and encourages the participation of practicing physicians, physicians in training, medical students, nurses and allied health professionals seeking evidenced-based information on Complementary and Alternative (CAM) therapies and Integrative Medicine.

Faculty

Ather Ali, ND, MPH
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale Univeristy School of Medicine; Assistant Director of Integrative Medicine, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center; Co-Director, Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital

Joseph F. Audette,MA, MD
Chief, Department of Pain Medicine, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates; Clinical Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Suzie Bertisch, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Research Faculty, Division of General Medicine & Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

John Bordiuk, MD
Primary Care Physician, Marino Center for Integrative Health

David Dodson, MD
Assistamt Clinical Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Primary Care Internist, Marino Center for Integrative Health

Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH
Assistant Director of Integrative Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Boston University Medical Center

Charles Hatem, MD
Harold Amos Academy Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Medical Education, Mount Aburn Hospital

Tracy MacNab, PhD
Director of Mental Health, Marino Center for Integrative Health

Anne McCaffrey, MD, MPH
Medical Director and Director or Research and Education, Marino Center for Integrative Health; Clinical Instructor in the Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School

David Rakel, MD
Director, University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine; Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Univeristy of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Schedule

Wear comfortable clothes

7:30AM:Registration and Buffet

8:10AM:Welcome and Opening Remarks, Anne McCaffrey, MD, MPH

            Keynote Address: The Salutogenic Oriented Visit: How Practitioner

            Can Trump Pill, David P. Rakel, MD

9:00AM:Physician Self-Care, Charles J. Hatem, MD

9:50AM:Break

10:00AM:Dietary Supplements at the Point of Care:What You and Your Patients

             Need to Know, Paula Gardiner,MD,MPH

10:40AM:Metabolic Health: Reversing Insulin Resistance Through an

              Integrative Approach, David P. Rakel, MD

11:20AM:An Introduction to Acupuncture: Is the Chinese Emperor Wearing

              no Clothes?, Joseph F. Audette, MD

12:00PM:Questions and Answers with Morning Speakers

12:30PM:Lunch

After lunch the course will break into two tracks-please choose the topic of most interest to you

TRACK A- Auditorium

1:30pm:Mind Body Medicine and Qi Gong Experiential, Tracy MacNab, PhD

2:10PM:Integrative Approach to Insomnia, Suzie Bertisch, MD, MPH

2:50PM:Question and Answers with Track A Speakers

TRACK B- Berkshire Room

1:30pm:Fibromyalgia: Integrative Therapies and Patient Care Challenges, Ather Ali, ND, MPH

2:10PM:Vitamin D: From Roxbury to Wellesley, David Dodson, MD

2:50PM:Question and Answers with Track B Speakers

3:10PM:Tracks A & B: Break and Prep for Yoga Class

3:20PM:Yoga and Health, John Bordiuk, MD

4:20PM:Course Wrap Up, Anne McCaffrey, MD, MPH

Registration

To register online, click here or click here to download the conference brochure, print the registration form and return it by mail or fax. Please make checks payable to Marino Center for Integrative Health and mail with completed registration form to Marino Center for Integrative Health, 372 Washington St, Wellesley, MA 02481 or fax it to 617-682-1101.

For more information, contact Stephanie Bailey at 617-682-1102, or at conference@marinocenter.org.