THE LOBBY
We were greeted with this magnificant screen in the lobby each day - depicting a chinese scene.
The three conference days ran from early morning till late into the evening with occasional breaks to allow us to make rounds of the Exhibit Hall which was packed with vendors of every imaginable alternative health product, and FREE food to keep us all going. I'm taking an empty suitcase next time in order to get all the handouts and books home in one piece.
I'M SITTING ON THE RIGHT.
Part of the fun of going to these conferences is meeting people from all over and getting to hang with them. Here we are eating out in Union Station in DC. Dinah and me sitting, Miriam, Becky and Irene standint (l-r).
I can't begin to do justice to the very important information offered at this conference which will impact the health care in this country. Much of the following is taken from the conference program and is very brief due to space and time . I mention only some of the presenters I saw.
We were welcomed by Alan Trachtenberg, MD Associate Adjunct Professor at George Washington University School of Medicine. The Keynote address given by C. Norman Shealy, MD PhD of the Shealy Institute in Missouri. He asked Are you listening America? And elaborated on Alternatives to Mangled Care. Dr Shealy invented the TENS unit for pain control and is the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association. His discussion emphasized how allopathic medicine has been very effective with acute illness management but that it falls short with the chronic ones. He also spoke about the treatment of depression safely without drugs.
Break time with Irene on the left and Dinah on the right, and me.
I pretty much followed the Integrative Medicine Track which included Alan Dumoff JD,MSW , Director of LifeTree Medical Center in Rockville MD. He specializes in the needs of unconventional physicians and CAM providers. He spoke about Integrating Diverse Modalities:The Holy Grail of the New Medicine, care in clinical settings, practice management issues and developing an integrated approach to pt. centered health care. Patricia Culliton MA,LAc, Co-Director of the NIH-funded Center for Addictions and Alternative Medicine Research. She spoke about how mental and chemical health providers have been the pioneers of several forms of CAM (one being Accupuncture) that are now commonly used in many sectors . Pali Delevit MA, instructor in Medical Education at UV School of Med where she teaches Healing Options to the med students. More schools are now offering this . Leo Galland MD (New York City) spoke of the value of Patient-centered diagnosis. Jerry Whitworth RN, CCP Director of Columbia Presbyterian Complimentary Care Center spoke of the hoops he junped through to incorporate alternative modalities on cardiac surgical patients.
Linda Bidell-Logan CEO explained reimbursement, establishing efficacy, coding and educating the medical community and the patients. Dr Howard Bezoza expanded on the thought that the fringe maybe is now the cutting edge. The list goes on. It was difficult to pick a presenter each hour--I just wanted to see it all. The following are some of the pictures of the presenters. Due to the lighting, I was unable to get pictures of everyone.
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