Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public A Summary of the February 2009 Summit (2009) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Appendix D: Speaker and Staff Biographies
Appendix D: Speaker and Staff Biographies
Pages 187-206
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 187... ...
to health. As Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on SES and Health, she coordinates research spanning social, psychological, and biological mechanisms by which SES influences health.
|
From page 188... ...
Professor Dame Carol Black is the National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, and Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Her unit at the Royal Free Hospital, London, is the major center in Europe for clinical care and research on systemic sclerosis and is internationally renowned.
|
From page 189... ...
In 1985 he moved to the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he served as Executive Vice President and Dean and subsequently as the Director of the College's Health Policy Institute. In 2005, he returned to the University of Pennsylvania as a Professor of Medicine in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
|
From page 190... ...
Under her leadership, Duke Integrative Medicine has recently opened a state-of-theart health care facility dedicated to the transformation of medicine through the exploration of new models of whole-person health care. Prior to her work at Duke, Dr.
|
From page 191... ...
Dr. Goldblatt believes that when the biomedical community and the complementary alternative medicine community build health care teams and work collaboratively in integrative settings, that this approach to health care is often best for the patient's treatment and healing process.
|
From page 192... ...
Recognizing the need for a more comprehensive and more holistic approach to cardiovascular disease, she pioneered the center where she uses state-of-the-art cardiac imaging technology and lifestyle change programs to aggressively diagnose, prevent, and treat cardiovascular disease. She is the author of The Heart Speaks, a poignant collection of stories from heart patients who have benefited from integrative medicine approaches.
|
From page 193... ...
Prior to that, starting in 1996, he served as Executive Vice President for Health Affairs; CEO, the Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center; Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare; Cochairman of the Board, EHCA, LLC; and Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine.
|
From page 194... ...
Kreitzer is Founder and Director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing. She is currently the coprincipal investigator of several clinical trials and grants that encompass a variety of topics: mindfulness meditation for solid organ transplant patients; integrated residential treatment programs for women with eating disorders; mind–body interventions for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients; comparing mindfulness meditation with pharmacotherapy for people with chronic insomnia; and integrating research in a complementary and alternative medicine educational institution.
|
From page 195... ...
Richard Lifton is Chairman of the Department of Genetics, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine, Director of the Yale Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale University School of Medicine.
|
From page 196... ...
She helped create the comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine that is now used for fellows and pioneered multiple innovative educational programs including the Integrative Family Medicine Program and Integrative Medicine in Residency, two national models for educating primary care physicians. She is frequently sought out as a speaker on topics including integrative medical education, women's health, healthy aging, nutrition, and cancer.
|
From page 197... ...
Ornish has directed randomized controlled trials demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease and early-stage prostate cancer without drugs or surgery. He and his colleagues recently demonstrated that comprehensive lifestyle changes may up-regulate disease-preventing genes and downregulate genes that promote cancer and heart disease.
|
From page 198... ...
Pelletier served as Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Director of the Stanford Corporate Health Program; and was Director of the NIH-funded Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program at Stanford (CAMPS)
|
From page 199... ...
In that role, he oversees the Physician Assistant Program and Respiratory Care Program in addition to the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Victor S
|
From page 200... ...
Dr. Snyderman oversaw the development of the Duke University Health System, one of the most successful integrated academic health systems in the country, and served as its first President and CEO.
|
From page 201... ...
Ms. Stovall is on the Board of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and has participated in working groups and committees advising the National Cancer Institute, American Association for Cancer Research, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and many other national organizations concerned with providing quality health care.
|
From page 202... ...
Dr. Tunis served as the Senior Advisor to the CMS Administrator on clinical and scientific policy, and he supervised the development of national coverage policies; quality standards for Medicare and Medicaid providers; quality measurement and public reporting initiatives; and the Quality Improvement Organization program.
|
From page 203... ...
Bothner is a research associate in the Institute of Medicine's Executive Office, where she has worked on a number of projects, including HHS in the 21st Century: Charting a New Course for a Healthier America, the Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM. She began working with the IOM in October 2006 as a senior program assistant with the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine.
|
From page 204... ...
From 1999 to 2005, Dr. McGinnis was Senior Vice President and founding health group director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
|
From page 205... ...
Schultz recently worked on HHS in the 21st Century: Charting a New Course for a Healthier America, and she is currently working on the Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine. She received her M.P.H.
|
From page 206... ...
Ms. Zweig focused on foreign development in college and wrote her honors thesis on public opinion polling as a tool for building peace in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.