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Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine 2003
is a three-day forum for exploring how traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can
play an essential role in improving the efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and safety
of contemporary health-care. TCM experts will present and exchange information on TCM philosophy, theories,
and its broad array of treatment modalities and techniques, evidence-based research,
as well as TCM's applications to prevention, health, and self-healing. The conference
will provide a broad contextual framework in which to investigate the challenges
and opportunities of integrating TCM with conventional medicine. Presenters
will discuss the synergies that be achieved when TCM modalities are used in
conjunction with conventional medical approaches; how and why TCM can help fill
significant gaps in current medical care, and how its multi-treatment approach
can contribute to alleviating certain health conditions, specifically cancer,
pain, immune system disorders and women's health issues. The goal of Building Bridges is to improve health options and outcomes
in the United States by educating CAM and conventional research, medical and
health-care communities about all aspects of traditional Chinese medicine; the
philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of TCM as well as the current research
base of evidence for the full complement of modalities in the traditional Chinese
medicine system, including: acupuncture, acupressure/bodywork, herbal treatments,
Qigong, the prescription of foods for healing, and Chinese psychology. In order to facilitate the successful integration of traditional Chinese medicine
with conventional Western medicine and to effect positive and affordable health
outcomes, this conference addresses four main goals: At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to: To explore the scientific research base of evidence as well as the philosophical
and theoretical underpinnings of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the Traditional
Chinese Medicine World Foundation has issued a Call for Abstracts in conjunction
with Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine 2003.
Please visit the Call for Abstracts page
for more information. Conference participants will have the option of earning CEUs from the National
Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) for
attendance at plenary sessions, panel presentations, workshops, and more. The conference also offers CMEs for medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy
and nurses through InnoVision Communications, LLC, publishers of Alternative
Therapies in Health and Medicine. Please e-mail info@tcmconference.org
for more information. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential
Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
(ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of InnoVision Communications and TCM World
Foundation. InnoVision Communications is accredited by the ACCME to provide
continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the
content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. InnoVision Communications designates this educational activity for a maximum
of 19.5 hours in Category 1 Credit toward the American Medical Association (AMA)
Physician's Recognition Award. Each Physician should claim only those hours
of credit actually spent on the educational activity. One of the oldest holistic medical systems in the world, TCM has been practiced,
studied and researched for more than 5,000 years. Hospitals and clinics throughout
China have successfully integrated Western and traditional Chinese medicine
to help patients heal from a wide range of conditions and diseases for more
than 100 years. Building Bridges is designed to help provide health-care
practitioners with the philosophical understanding and practical skills they
need to deepen their understanding of TCM knowledge and integrate it into their
work with patients in the West. Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine 2003
is presented by the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation, an educational
not-for-profit organization founded and directed by Nan Lu, OMD. The Foundation's
mission is to serve as a source for authentic information on traditional Chinese
medicine through educational programs, publications, and research. Its programs
include: the Breast Cancer Prevention Project; the Dragon's Way® Stress
Management and Weight Loss Program; Menopause Naturally; and Taiji for Health
- Beyond the Martial Arts. TCM World Foundation publishes TCM World: the
Newspaper of Health and Healing, the first nationally distributed newspaper
dedicated to helping educate consumers and Western health-care professionals
about TCM, Qigong, natural self-healing and the internal martial arts. TCM World Foundation Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine is
the result of collaboration between and among Eastern, complementary and Western
medical and health institutions. We are pleased to announce the support of our
collaborating organizations: Frances L. Brisbane, PhD (Conference Co-Chair) Mitchell Gaynor, MD (Conference Co-Chair) Nan Lu, OMD (Conference Vice Chair) Xiu-Min Li, MD (Committee Chair) Hongxin Cao, MD Effie Chow, PhD, RN, LAc Lixin Huang, MS Michael Johnson, MD Yong Ming Li, MD, PhD Shi-Hong Loh, MD Henry S. Sacks, MD (Chair) Louis Evan Teichholz, MD Jiang Hong Ye, MD, MS |
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