ColumnInnovations in integrative healthcare educationWays of Knowing: Integrating Research Into CAM Education and Holism Into Conventional Health Professional Education
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Incorporating Research Principles in CAM Education: Student and Faculty Perspectives
In recent years, there has been a growing movement to ensure that healthcare is more “evidence based,” which requires that providers know how to access clinically relevant research evidence and incorporate it into their clinical practice. Providers of complementary and alternative therapies are not exempt from this cultural demand, particularly as patients and third party payers expect more in terms of transparency and integrative care. This shift impacts CAM educational institutions, which
Masters in Holistic Health Education
Venerable (25 plus years old), but also cutting edge, the Masters in Holistic Health Education (HHE) program at John F. Kennedy University (JFKU) in the San Francisco Bay area inspires students to develop, communicate, and apply an integrative perspective to health education. The program makes use of Wilber's integral theory as a framework for exploring practical and sustainable ways to bring together traditional, allopathic, and holistic definitions of health (individual and collective) and
Victor S. Sierpina, MD, is the W. D. and Laura Nell Nicholson Professor of Integrative Medicine and Professor, Family Medicine, at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. An associate editor for EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, he also serves as the Chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.
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NCCAM awards grants to CAM institutions to enhance research education
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Victor S. Sierpina, MD, is the W. D. and Laura Nell Nicholson Professor of Integrative Medicine and Professor, Family Medicine, at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. An associate editor for EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, he also serves as the Chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, is the founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing and a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. She served as vice-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine from 2004 to 2007 and is currently on the Consortium's Executive Committee.
Michele Maiers, DC, MPH, is an assistant professor and the associate dean of research and knowledge transfer at Northwestern Health Sciences University.
Louise Delagran, MA, MEd, is an education specialist at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.
Lori Baldwin, MOM, LAc, is an assistant professor at Northwestern Health Sciences University.
Roni Evans, DC, MS, is the director, Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies and the dean of research at Northwestern Health Sciences University.
Michele Chase, PhD, is a professor and program chair for the MA in Holistic Health Education program at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco, CA.