Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine: True Healing—True Health is a three-day forum for exploring how traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can play an essential role in improving the efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and safety of contemporary health-care.
What is True Healing? What is True Health?
Who is the real healer? How can practitioners optimize the energy relationship between caregiver and patient? Deep within, we know that health is not merely the absence of disease or illness. It's a state of vibrancy where the body, mind and spirit act in beautiful harmony. What paths can we follow to help ourselves and those
we serve to reach this state of being?
Explore these provocative ideas and more from the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) perspective. Dialogue with TCM experts who have learned this medicine first-hand, in many cases, through their in-depth apprenticeships and training with some of China's most well-respected healing masters. Share unique insights borne of this millennia-old medical tradition as these experts join with today's most dynamic integrative Western medical professionals to explore the deepest roots of healing and health.
The ultimate goal of Building Bridges 2005 is to expand health options and improve outcomes in the United States by educating CAM and conventional medical, health-care and research communities about traditional Chinese medicine. This includes all aspects of this time-honored system, including its philosophical and theoretical underpinnings, as well as the modalities that TCM employs to prevent health problems and address them. These modalities encompass acupuncture, acupressure, Qigong, Chinese psychology, herbal therapy, and the prescription of foods for healing.
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Traditional Chinese medicine is one of the oldest holistic medical systems in the world. Hospitals and clinics throughout China have successfully integrated Western and traditional Chinese medicine to help patients heal from a wide range of conditions and diseases for more than a hundred years. Most importantly, TCM's ability to prevent problems before they affect the physical body offers significant advantages for today's chronic health-care problems.
Given the physical, emotional, and financial toll of chronic illnesses in this country, the time to share this vital knowledge and utilize the best of both medicines is now. We believe Building Bridges 2005 can help provide health-care practitioners with the philosophical understanding and skills they need to understand TCM and how it can benefit their work. Over time, one of the vital ways TCM has sustained itself is through the passing of healing messages from one healer to another. This is accomplished through energy or Qi. While textbooks and techniques have played a role in developing TCM, the experiential role of Qi has played a more critical one. Learning about Qi as the energy foundation of TCM opens a way of re-seeing prevention, illness and disease. It is impossible to talk about authentic TCM without investigating the role of energy or Qi and the practice of Qigong.
This forum provides a special opportunity to move beyond technique to discover the root of true healing so that true health can emerge. Again, we are privileged to present selected faculty members with unique TCM backgrounds who will help us explore the quantum side of healing. Their wisdom and knowledge come from beyond TCM medical texts. Their passion for sharing their expertise comes straight from the heart.
Building Bridges 2005 conference participants will be able to explore: Acupuncture, Medical Qigong, Cancer and TCM Herbal Therapies, Herb/Drug Interactions, Pediatrics and TCM, Chronic Pain, the Emotional Ground of Physical Problems, Infertility, TCM and Scientific Research, the Future of Collaborative Medicine, and much more.
| Conference Goals |
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The goal of Building Bridges is to improve health options and outcomes in the United States by educating CAM and conventional research, medical and health-care communities about all aspects of traditional Chinese medicine; the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of TCM as well as the current research base of evidence for the full complement of modalities in the traditional Chinese medicine system, including: acupuncture, acupressure/bodywork, herbal treatments, Qigong, the prescription of foods for healing, and Chinese psychology.
In order to facilitate the successful integration of traditional Chinese medicine with conventional Western medicine and to effect positive and affordable health outcomes, this conference addresses four main goals:
- To further and provide a forum for the ongoing exchange of information on the philosophy, theories,
techniques, scientific research and information about the full range of traditional Chinese medicine in a
broad health-care context.
- To offer contemporary health-care practitioners techniques, case studies, and evidence-based research results,
as well as practical ways to integrate this healing knowledge into patient care.
- To delineate the unique strengths of traditional Chinese medicine: in early diagnosis and prevention, its
synergistic effect when used in complement with Western interventions for certain conditions; the range of its
modalities and its philosophy of health, wellness and prevention; and to offer clinical practitioners reliable
information on integrating this healing knowledge into patient care.
- To raise awareness and encourage implementation of traditional Chinese medicine in the United States
by providing in-depth information about the challenges and advantages of the integration of TCM with
Western medicine.
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At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the current and potential role of traditional Chinese medicine in contemporary health care.
- Describe the philosophical and theoretical framework within which TCM operates.
- Identify the primary theories and treatment modalities that comprise TCM.
- Distinguish and identify TCM therapies that have been shown to benefit certain conditions.
- Discuss the latest clinical evidence for TCM and the current research in this field.
- Demonstrate an ability to hold an informed discussion with patients about TCM as a complementary therapy for certain health conditions.
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- Acupuncturists
- Asian Bodywork Therapists
- CAM and Health-Care Administrators
- Chiropractors
- Clinic Directors and Administrators
- Educators/Academics
- Herbalists
- Homeopaths
- Insurers
- Massage Therapists
- Naturopaths
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Nutritionists
- Osteopaths
- Pharmacists
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Policymakers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Publishers
- Researchers
- Social Workers
- Students
- TCM Practitioners
| Continuing Education Credit (CEU) / Professional Development Activity (PDA) |
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Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available to TCM practitioners, acupuncturists, Chinese herbalists, and practitioners of Chinese body work. Conference participants will have the option of earning up to 29.5 CEUs from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) for attendance at Plenary session, panel presentations, workshops and more.
The total number of CEU credits available for each day are as follows. Note: The NCCAOM also refers to CEUs as Professional Development Activity (PDAs) points. See the NCCAOM Web site for details.
- Thursday: 4 CEU credits for pre-conference workshop
- Friday: 9.5 CEU credits
- Saturday: 9.5 CEU credits
- Sunday: 6.5 CEU credits
Total: 29.5 CEU credits.
| Continuing Medical Education Credit (CME) |
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The conference also offers CMEs for medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy
through The University
at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
This program has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential
Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) through joint
sponsorship with the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences (UB) and Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation. The University
at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is accredited by the ACCME
to sponsor Continuing Medical Education for physicians.
The University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences designates
this program for up to 28 category 1 credits toward the AMA's Physician Recognition
Award. Each physician should claim only the actual time he/she spent in educational
activities.
| About Traditional Chinese Medicine |
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One of the oldest holistic medical systems in the world, TCM has been studied and practiced for more than 5,000 years. Hospitals and clinics throughout China have successfully integrated Western and traditional Chinese medicine to help patients heal from a wide range of conditions and diseases for more than 100 years. Building Bridges is designed to help provide health-care practitioners with the philosophical understanding and practical skills they need to deepen their understanding of TCM knowledge and integrate it into their work with patients in the West.
| About Us |
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Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine 2005 is presented by the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization founded in 1995. The Foundation's goal is to serve as a source for authentic information on traditional Chinese medicine through educational programs, publications, and research. Programs include: the Breast Cancer Prevention Project; the Dragon's Way.. Stress Management and Weight Loss Program; Menopause Naturally, and Taiji for Health—Beyond the Martial Arts.
TCM World Foundation
396 Broadway, Suite 502
New York, NY 10013
212-274-1079
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| Conference Chairs |
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Frances L. Brisbane, PhD (Conference Co-Chair)
Dean, School of Social Welfare
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Mitchell Gaynor, MD (Conference Co-Chair)
Director, Gaynor Integrative Oncology
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Weill Medical College, Cornell University
New York, NY
Nan Lu, OMD (Conference Vice Chair)
Founder and Director, Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation
New York, NY
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Xiu-Min Li, MD (Committee Chair)
Associate Professor, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
Effie Chow, PhD, RN, LAc
President, East-West Academy of Healing Arts
Member, White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
San Francisco, CA
David Felten, MD, PhD
Dean, Graduate Medical Education
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
Lixin Huang, MS
President, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
San Francisco, CA
Michael Johnson, MD
Psychiatrist, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Boston, MA
Yong Ming Li, MD, PhD
Executive Director, TCM Association
Warren Hospital
Warren, NJ
Lixing Lao, MD, PhD, LAc
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research
Center for Integrative Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Henry S. Sacks, MD
Director, Thomas C. Chalmers Clinical Trials Unit
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
Louis Evan Teichholz, MD
Chief of the Division of Cardiology
Medical Director of Cardiac Services
Medical Director, Complementary Medical Program
Center for Health and Healing, Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ
| Past Conferences |
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The Web sites of past conferences are available through the following links:
You can also view photos from the 2004 conference.
