The Institute for Holistic Healing Studies at San Francisco State University invites you to attend a unique conference exploring the integration of holistic health and conventional health care in the 21st century …
~ Reinventing Medicine & Integrating Health Care Alternatives ~
Saturday, March 25th, 2006, 9am-5:00pm
Cesar Chavez Student Center, Jack Adams Hall
San Francisco State University (19th Ave. & Holloway Ave.)
Suggested Donation: $10; Students or Seniors: $5. Nursing CEU (1 unit) $75
8:30 Conference Check-In
9:15 Host Welcome and Conference Overview
9:30 Keynote: Larry Dossey, MD: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things
11:00 Workshops/Interdisciplinary Health-Care Dialogues:
- Integrative Medicine – Training, Environment and Practice
- Herbs, Nutrition and Natural Pharmacy
- Biofeedback, Bodywork and Somatic Therapies
- Environmental Health and Community-Based Health Care
- Art and Spirituality in Health and Healing
12:30 Lunch (campus and local restaurants are available)
2:00 Keynote: Wayne Jonas, MD: Optimal Healing Environments and the Future of Health Care
3:15 IHHS Award to Leland Yee for his support of Holistic Health and Higher Education
3:30 Expert Panel: Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Cancer
5:00 Conference Closing
Larry Dossey, MD, an author of nine books and numerous articles, and the former Executive Editor of the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. He has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in health care. Dr. Dossey's ever-deepening explication of “nonlocal mind,” provides a legitimate foundation for the merging of spirit and medicine. www.dosseydossey.com
Wayne B. Jonas, MD, the founding Director of the Samueli Institute for Information Biology™ (SIIB), a non-profit, medical research organization focused on scientific investigation of healing processes and their application in health and disease. He was the Director (1995-1999) of the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). www.siib.org
Co-Founders/Hosts: The Institute for Holistic Healing Studies (IHHS), Department of Health Education and California State Assembly Speaker pro Tempore, Leland Yee, Ph.D.
For more information, contact the SFSU Holistic Health Learning Center, HSS 329. (415) 338-641 or
http://www.sfsu.edu/~holistic/whatsnew/f_what.html
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