You are cordially invited to

The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Journal Club

presents

“A new global well-being outcomes
rating scale for integrative medicine research”

Thursday April 29, 2004

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm*

 Merritt Conference Room

P&S 3-418 [next to Student Affairs Office], 630 W. 168^th Street

* (bring your brown bag lunch)

Expert Discussant:                Barry Gurland, FRCPsychiatry, FRCPhysicians (London),

                                              Sidney Katz Professor of Psychiatry,

Director, Stroud Center for Study of Quality of Life

The Stroud Center is an endowed interdepartmental center of the Columbia University Faculty of Medicine and New York State Psychiatric Institute whose mission is to foster scholarly activities contributing to the prevention or delaying of losses in the qualities of living that may accompany chronic diseases and life course changes.

Moderated by:

                                              Judith S. Jacobson, Dr. P.H., Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health; Rosenthal Center for CAM

                                                             Janet Mindes, Ph.D., Associate Director for CAM Career Development, Rosenthal Center

Paper to be discussed:    Development and validation of a new global well-being outcomes rating scale for integrative medicine research.  Bell IR, Cunningham V, Caspi O, Meek P, Ferro L.

                                     BMC Complement Altern Med. 2004 Jan 15;4(1):1

                                                             http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=14725717

The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons

Web Site: http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/talks.html