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Osher Center Launches Campaign to Integrate Modern Medicine, Technology, and Compassionate Care The proliferation of new technologies is rapidly transforming the medical landscape for doctors and patients alike. Although technological innovation has clear and important benefits for patients, such care can lead to increasing depersonalization of medical care unless these new technologies are integrated with personalized, compassionate care. The UCSF Osher Center is ideally positioned to deliver just this kind of care. We are thrilled to launch a $25 million initiative as we celebrate our 10 year anniversary — and create an endowment that will help support the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in this mission We are delighted that Alexsis de Raadt St. James has agreed to lead this endowment initiative. A member of the Osher Center Leadership Board and former Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alexsis is the founder of the Althea Foundation, which tackles difficult and neglected mental health issues.
Stress Makes us Depressed, Fat, Sick, and we do it to Ourselves Judy Moskowitz and Elissa Epel, are quoted in this article regarding their work at Osher on the physiological effects of stress and how positive thinking can effect stress. See article
Rx: A Healing Touch for Post-Op Pain Osher Center's Wolf Mehling, MD discusses es a recent clinical trail on the effectiveness of Acupuncture and Massage for post surgical pain in this article by Victoria L. Freeman, PhD. See article
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Medicine: Ayurveda for This workshop is taught by world renowned Ayurvedic Practitioner, teacher, and author Vasant Lad BAMS, MASc. The event will complement your practice and enhance your knowledge by integrating safe and effective authentic Ayurvedic principles and therapies into conventional care of Cancer.
Metabolism & Nutrition: The Science Behind Healthy Eating Join a team of clinicians and basic scientists as they explore the concept of healthy eating scientifically and shed light on the molecular basis of energy balance. You will learn why it is so hard to keep the pounds off, and why certain diets work and others don't. You will also discuss eating disorders and join a pathologist to look "hands-on" at what can happen to organs if there is an imbalance between the body's nutrition and its energy requirement.
*See Coping with Stress Oct. 24- Dec. 5
Coping with Stress: How to Survive in a Fast-paced World Stress is ubiquitous and on the rise. How we learn to manage it can have profound effects on our health and wellbeing. This course will explain how our bodies experience stress (including its impact on immunity and longevity) and demonstrate effective strategies to help you thrive in a fast-paced world.
*See Metabolism Oct. 25- Dec. 6
UCSF Osher Center 10 Year Celebration--To Your Health!
Enjoy appetizers and music and learn from Osher's experts about innovative approaches to healing your mind, body and spirit. Space is limited.
Open House for Perinatal Health Professionals and the Birthing Community
Light refreshments will be served.
Gentle Massage For Children with Special Healthcare Needs This powerful workshop taught by Shay Beider, MPH, LMT, CIMI, is open to RNs, massage therapists, hospice workers, and other healthcare providers who want to learn to massage children with special needs. The setting will be safe and intimate as you learn gentle massage techniques for children who are physically, developmentally or mentally challenged.
Lymphoma Workshop: Understanding Lymphoma Basics and Current Treatment Options
The Breath: Bodywork's companion in Healing
Complementary and Integrative Medicine:
Complementary & Alternative Medicine: Integrating Care for Your Health & Wellness
Free Keynote Lecture Jesuits & Medicine in China at the Qing Imperial Court Medicine & Culture: Chinese-Western Medical Exchange
(1644 - ca.1950)
There will be a free public keynote lecture on Jesuits & Medicine in China at the Qing Imperial Court presented by Marta Hanson, Ph.D. on 3/8 from 5:45-7:00 p.m.
Free Lecture on Ayurveda (with Dr. Vasant Lad) Weekend Workshop: Your Body is Talking... Are You Listening? (with Dr. Vasant Lad)
Dr. Lad will also be leading a weekend workshop focusing on Ayurvedic diagnosis. These events are sponsored by Friends of Ayurveda, Ganesha Ayurveda Ashram, the UCSF Social Sciences in Medicine Area of Concentration and the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
Cancer as a Turning Point: From surviving to thriving Healing Journeys and UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF Medical Center present a free program designed to educate, inspire, connect, and celebrate all whose lives have been touched by cancer or any life-altering illness.
Osher Center Announces Donald Abrams, MD as Director of Clinical Programs
Dr. Abrams will present a free lecture on Nutrition and Cancer (9/14/06 @ 12 noon) San Francisco Chronicle article (8/9/06) features Dr. Abrams and his transition from HIV care to focus on Integrative Medicine programs.
Chinese Medicine Gaining Respectability in West The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and two of the Center's providers, Bradly Jacobs, MD, MPH and Joseph Acquah, LAc, OMD, are featured in an article exploring the recent FDA support for testing botanical drugs and the credibility it will lend to ancient herbal treatments.
North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine 2006
The Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) held the first North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine, hosted by the University of Alberta. CAHCIM was founded in 2003 and is a not-for-profit membership organization comprised of 27 major medical schools in the U.S. and Canada that have existing research, education and clinical programs focused on Integrative Medicine. .
Seminar: "Integrative Medicine: Can We Truly Integrate Beverly Burns, MS, LAc, an integrative medicine specialist at the Osher Center, explored the possibility of a model of health that incorporates Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies with conventional treatment in the Women's Health Today seminar series: "Integrative Medicine: Can we truly integrate care?" Sponsored by the Center for Gender Equity, the webcast can be viewed on the UCTV Website.
The New Medicine
A companion Website for The New Medicine offers concrete tools and resources that empower consumers to take charge of their health and pursue a more integrated approach to their healthcare. These include:
NEJM article on Saw Palmetto by UCSF Faculty Saw Palmetto is shown to have little effect with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in the largest study to date on the subject by Osher affiliated faculty Stephen Bent, MD and Andrew Avins, MD, MPH. Their study results are published in the February issue of the The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Beverly Burns, MS, LAc In January, Osher Center's Acupuncturist Beverly Burns received the
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of Medicine Report on the Use of CAM by the American Public
CDC National Health Interview Survey shows
more than one third of U.S. adults use some form of CAM The survey was performed in 2002 in which a diverse population of 31,000 American adults was interviewed about their use of CAM. Thirty-six percent reported using some form of CAM in the previous 12 months. When prayer (used specifically for health reasons) was included in the definition of CAM, this percentage increased to 62% (Barnes et al 2004). Barnes P, Powell-Griner E, McFann K, Nahin R. CDC Advance Data Report #343. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults: United States, 2002. May 27, 2004. Full Report
White House Commission on CAM Policy
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We invite you to join us for our 10th anniversary celebration with author and integrative medicine pioneer, Dr. Andrew Weil at the San Francisco
Asian Art Museum, Tuesday, Oct. 23. 6:30-9pm. 
The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and The National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health are delighted to announce our 
As part of the Osher Center's 10th year anniversary celebration, the head of the Harvard Osher Center, 
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSF is presenting Complementary & Alternative Medicine: Integrating Care for Your Health and Wellness, as part of their Mini Medical School for the public this Spring. 
Co-sponsoring with UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, and USF Center for the Pacific Rim, the Ricci Institute and the Lifemark Group
present a symposium that explores the historical interaction between China and the West through medicine and pharmacology. 
Please join us for a free Friday evening lecture on Ayurveda, by world renowned Ayurvedic physician, Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S, Ma.Sc. 10/27 from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Donald I. Abrams, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, was appointed the new Director of Clinical Programs at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine as of August 1, 2006. A long-time member of the faculty at UCSF, Dr. Abrams has been part of the Osher Center clinical group since 2005, providing integrative medicine consultations for patients living with and beyond cancer. In addition to his position at the Osher Center, Dr. Abrams remains Chief of the Hematology/Oncology Division at San Francisco General Hospital and a member of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Executive Committee. 
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Jefferson Award for outstanding community service. Beverly has been practicing Chinese medicine since 1991, specializing in women's health and cancer. In addition, she is Clinical Director and co-founder of the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic in Oakland, a clinic for low-income women with cancer.
