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EXPLORE

Volume 2, Issue 6, November 2006, Pages 547-549
EXPLORE

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Education
Innovations in Integrative Healthcare Education: Mind-Body Faculty Development at UCLA and the Symposium for Portland Area Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Content on integrative healthcare and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is being taught in hundreds of educational programs across the country. Nursing, medical, osteopathic, chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathic, and other programs are finding creative and innovative ways to include these approaches in new models of education and practice. This column spotlights such innovations in integrative healthcare and CAM education and presents readers with specific educational interventions they can adapt into new or ongoing educational efforts at their institution or programs.

We invite readers to submit brief descriptions of efforts in their institutions that reflect the creativity, diversity, and interdisciplinary nature of the field. Please submit to Dr. Sierpina at [email protected] or Dr. Kreitzer at [email protected]. Submissions should be no more than 700-800 words. Please include any Web site or other resource that is relevant, as well as contact information.

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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

To support the expansion of mind-body training and academic courses in their member institutions, the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) offered seed grants of $5,000 to each of its member schools. This was made possible through a generous educational grant from the Bravewell Collaborative. Faculty involved with the CAHCIM grant at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA designed, conducted, and evaluated a workshop for faculty of the Doctoring Program

It takes a SPARC to light a flame

Portland, Oregon has a growing reputation for collaboration among CAM and conventional healthcare institutions. With a history of partnerships including NIH-funded research projects, the community offers a unique research and education climate. On Saturday, April 29, 2006 seven Portland area institutions came together at Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine to cohost the first annual Symposium for Portland Area Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (SPARC). This

Victor S. Sierpina, MD, is the W.D. and Laura Nell Nicholson Professor of Integrative Medicine and an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. He is an associate editor for EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing.

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Victor S. Sierpina, MD, is the W.D. and Laura Nell Nicholson Professor of Integrative Medicine and an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. He is an associate editor for EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing.

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, is the director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing and an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. She also serves as the vice-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.

Marc Brodsky, MD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Center for East-West Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and completed a medical education fellowship with the Office of the Dean, Center for Education, Development, and Research.

Cha-Chi Fung, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, currently working as the educator for the Dean’s Office on the development of complementary and alternative medicine curriculum in their undergraduate medical education.

Margaret L. Stuber, MD, is the Director of the Doctoring curriculum at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Jane and MarcNathanson Professor of Psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

Ka-Kit Hui, MD, FACP, is Wallis Annenberg Chair in integrative East West Medicine, Professor and Director, Center for East-West Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Susan Fleishman, BA, is founder and principal of Integrative Medicine Resource Group, a consulting group that provides educational program development and implementation services. Ms. Fleishman currently serves as the project manager for the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine NCCAM/NIH R25 Research Education initiative.

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