The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Journal Club

presents

Integrative Medicine: A Progress Report
 
Roberta Lee, M.D.

Wednesday January 4, 2006

12:00-1:30 pm

(bring your lunch)

722 W. 168th St., 9th floor conference room

[Mailman School of Public Health]

 
 
Roberta Lee, M.D. is Medical Director, Continuum Center for Health and Healing, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY,
NY. Dr. Lee is a graduate of the Integrative Medicine Fellowship program of Andrew Weil, M.D., University of Arizona School of Medicine, and the co-author, with Ben Kligler, MD of the CHH, of Integrative Medicine (2004). Her clinical and research interests include ethnomedicine. Dr. Lee will discuss the below papers in the context of the progress being made toward truly integrative medicine at the Center for Health and Healing. 

Papers to be discussed (Available online and at meeting):

Tindle HA, Davis RB, Phillips RS, Eisenberg DM.  Trends in use of complementary and alternative medicine by US adults: 1997-2002.

Altern Ther Health Med 2005 Jan-Feb;11(1):42-9. 

Kaptchuk TJ, Miller FG, Viewpoint: What is best and most ethical model for the relationship between mainstream and alternative medicine: Opposition, integration, or pluralism?  Acad Med 2005 Mar;80(3):286-90.

Nahin RL, Pontzer CH, Chesney MA. Racing toward the integration of complementary and alternative medicine: a marathon or a sprint?

Health Affairs, 2005 Jul/Aug;24(4):991-3.

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