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Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public

When:
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - Friday, February 27, 2009 (9:00 AM)
Where:
National Academy of Sciences Building • 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006 Map

Topic(s):
Diseases, Environmental Health, Food and Nutrition, Quality and Patient Safety, Substance Abuse and Mental Health, Women's Health
Activity:
Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public
Board(s):
Studies under the IOM Executive Office

February 25, 2009


9:00-9:15         Welcome and opening remarks
                          
Harvey V. Fineberg, Institute of Medicine

9:15-10:00       Keynote I. Stage setting: Integrating health and health care
                           
Ralph Snyderman, Duke University 
     

10:00-10:15     BREAK

 

10:15-11:45     Panel I - Vision: What is needed for an integrated approach to health?  

Panel moderator: Michael Johns, Emory University

  • Victor Sierpina, University of Texas Medical Branch
  • Mehmet Oz, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center 
  • Ellen Stovall, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
  • William Novelli, AARP       
  • George Halvorson, Kaiser Permanente  

11:45-12:15     LUNCH AND DISCUSSION SESSIONS
A series of informal, optional luncheon discussions was open to all Summit attendees. 

1:15-2:15         Priority assessment group reports 
Moderator:  Ralph Snyderman, Duke University

  • Reed Tuckson, UnitedHealth
  • Fred Sanfilippo, Emory Healthcare

2:15-3:45         Panel II - The models   

Panel moderator: Erminia Guarneri, Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine

 

  • Models to ensure integrated, continuous care, including chronic disease across caregivers and settings: Edward Wagner, MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation at Group Health Center for Health Studies
  • Models to improve health among the underserved: Arnold Milstein, Mercer    
  • Models to promote health and wellness, prevention, management of chronic diseases: David Katz, Yale University
  • Models to optimize health and healing across the lifespan: Tracy Gaudet, Duke University 
  • Models to promote primary care (medical home, patient-centered care): Mike Magee, Center for Aging Services Technologies 

3:45-4:00          BREAK    

4:00-4:45          Keynote II - The models  

Donald Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

 

5:00-6:30           RECEPTION

 

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February 26, 2009

 

9:00-9:45         Keynote III - The science  

Dean Ornish, Preventive Medicine Research Institute

       

9:45-11:30      Panel III - The science  

Panel moderator: Bruce McEwen, Rockefeller University

  • Social determinants of health: Nancy Adler, University of California, San Francisco 
  • Mind-body medicine: Esther Sternberg, NIH National Institute of Mental Health 
  • Genomic/predictive medicine: Richard Lifton, Yale University 
  • Environmental epigenetics: Mitchell L. Gaynor, Weill-Cornell Medical Center and Gaynor Integrative Oncology     
  • Intervention evaluation and outcomes measures: Lawrence Green, University of California, San Francisco
  • CAM modalities: Josephine Briggs, NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 

11:30-1:00    LUNCH AND DISCUSSION SESSIONS
A series of informal, optional luncheon discussions was open to all Summit attendees.

1:00-2:00      Priority assessment group reports    
Moderator:  Ralph Snyderman, Duke University 

  • Richard Lifton, Yale University 
  • Avid Haramati, Georgetown University 
  • Helen Darling, National Business Group on Health 

2:00-3:30      Panel IV - Workforce and education   
Panel moderator: Elizabeth Goldblatt, Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

  • Education curricula: Mary Jo Kreitzer, University of Minnesota         
  • Core competencies: Victoria Maizes, University of Arizona          
  • Interdisciplinary training: Adam Perlman, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
  • Workforce reorientation: Richard Cooper, University of Pennsylvania
  • Standards, regulation, and patient safety: Cyril Chantler, King's Fund 

3:30-3:45      BREAK

3:45-4:30       Keynote IV - Workforce and education 

Carol Black, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

 

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February 27, 2009

 

8:30-9:15         Keynote V - The economics 

Senator Tom Harkin, U.S. Senate
 

9:15-10:45       Panel V - The economics  

Panel moderator: Sean Tunis, Center for Medical Technology Policy

  • Economic burden of chronic disease: Kenneth Thorpe, Emory University           
  • Insurer perspective: Reed Tuckson, UnitedHealth Group          
  • Employer perspective: William George, Harvard University and Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce   
  • Behavior change incentives and approaches: Janet Kahn, University of Vermont  
  • Rewards of integrative medicine: Kenneth R. Pelletier, University of Arizona and University of California (UCSF) Schools of Medicine 

10:45-11:00    BREAK

 

11:00-12:20     Panel VI - Issues, priorities, and strategies: Moving forward

Panel moderator:  Ralph Snyderman, Duke University
Full planning committee, plus breakout group reporters

12:20-12:30     Final remarks
Ralph Snyderman, Duke University
Harvey V. Fineberg, Institute of Medicine