Osher Center for Integrative Health Grand Rounds

2024-2025

• Survey Perspectives of Complementary Health (video), Richard Nahin, PhD, MPH
• Integrative Clinical Pharmacology: Herb-Drug Interactions (video, slides, Q&A), John Chen, PhD, PharmD, OMD, LAc

2023-2024

• May the Forest Be With You: Relational Forest Therapy Group Medical Visits (video, resources), Stephanie Cheng, MD
• Reintegrating Medicine: Nurturing Connections between Personal and Planetary Health (video), Peter Wayne, PhD; Aterah Nusrat, MSc, DIC; Michael Ferguson, PhD
• Empowering Mental Well-being Through Self-Care (video), Krystal M. Lewis, PhD
• Developing Scalable Diet and Exercise Interventions for Cancer Prevention and Control (slides, video) Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD, RD 
• Culinary Medicine: Advancing Health Equity in Underserved Populations (video), Linda Shiue, MD, Chef 
• The True Purpose of Nutrition (slides, video), Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL

2022-2023

• Mindfulness and Behavioral Approaches to Improving Sleep and Promoting Mental Health During Pregnancy and Early Parenting (slides, video), Jennifer Felder, PhD
• Equity-Based Integrative Health Innovation Towards Health System Redesign (slides, video), Scarlet Soriano, MD
• Mindfulness Meditation and Relapse Prophylaxis in Mood Disorders (slides, video), Zindel V. Segal, PhD, CPsych
• What Clinicians Need to Know About Botanical Medicine (slides, video), Tieraona Low Dog, MD
• NCCIH Strategic Plan FY 2021-⁠25: Mapping a Pathway to Research on Whole Person Health (video), Helene Langevin, MD
• Promoting Well-being in Healthcare: Mindfulness and Mind-Body Techniques to Manage Stress and Build Resilience (video), Sian Cotton, PhD
• What Do Placebo and Nocebo Effects Have to Do with Health Equity? (slides, video), Kathryn Hall, PhD
• Mind-Body Medicine and Integrative Oncology Group Visits: A Mindfulness-based Intervention Tailored for Diverse Patients (video), Chloe Atreya, MD, PhD & and Kavita Mishra, MD, MPH
• Integrative Nursing: A Way Forward in Turbulent and Uncertain Times (video), Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN

2021-2022

• Panel on Cultural Appropriation in Integrative Medicine & Health (video), Helen Ye, MS, LAc, Helen Weng, PhD, and Sudha Prathikanti, MD
• Investigating Ayurveda in the Genomics Era: A Brief Research Review (slides, video), Sudha Prathikanti, MD
• Integrative Approaches to Long COVID (video), Meghan Jobson, MD & Juliet Morgan, MD
• Music and Art-Based Interventions for Health and Well-being (video), by Emmeline Edwards, PhD
• Warming up to a Novel Integrative treatment for Depression: Whole Body Hyperthermia and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Ashley E. Mason, PhD
• Whodunnit? Solving Cases of Synergy in Botanical Medicines, Nadja B. Cech, PhD
• Oncology Acupuncture: Evidence-informed Integration, Jun Mao, MD, MSCE
• Decolonizing Medicine through Two-Eyed Seeing: Indigenous Philosophies of Wellbeing, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD

2020-2021

• Pandemic Era Personal and Institutional Well-being: How to Bolster Our UCSF Response by Elissa Epel, PhD
• Targeting the Sleep-Stress Cycle: Opportunities to Improve Health and Well-being in the Post-COVID Era by Aric. A Prather, PhD
• Neuroimaging Brain Mechanisms of Acupuncture: from Somatosensation to Therapeutic Alliance by Vitaly Napadow, PhD
• Food as Medicine: Moving Clinics Upstream to Improve Human Health, Soil Health, and Equity by Steven Chen, MD
• What Can I Do to Protect Myself, My Family, and My Patients during COVID-19? The Role of Complementary and Integrative Health by Karen Seal, MD, MPH
• Using Contemplative Practices to Divest Clinical and Research Processes of Racism by Kamilah Majied, PhD
• Clinical Perspectives of an Integrative Health Case: The Retired Urologist with Chronic Pain panel presentation including the patient; Louise Aronson, MD; Christopher Gilbert, PhD; and Wolf Mehling, MD
• Mind-Body Programs at the UCSF Osher Center: Translating Research to Clinical Practice panel presentation by Judith Cuneo, MD; Rick Hecht, MD; and Wolf Mehling, MD
• Integrative Medicine in Children: Effective Tools to Treat and Prevent Pain and Distressing Symptoms in Pediatrics by Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP

2019-2020

• Integrative Health Equity: Paradox and Promise by Maria T. Chao, DrPH, MPA
• Culturally-Informed Complementary Treatments for Pain Management by Valerie W. Jackson, PhD, MPH
• From Personal to Professional: Making the Journey Toward Integrative Whole Health Within the VA Health Care System by Karen Seal, MD, MPH
• Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery: Program Description and Research Overview by Linda Carlson, PhD, CPsych 
• Integrative Aging: Optimizing Wellness across the Decades of Elderhood by Louise Aronson, MD
• Maurice Kanbar Lecture on Innovations in Integrative Medicine: Placebo Effects in Medicine by Professor Ted Kaptchuk
• We Have to Pick a SIDE (Stakeholder, Infrastructure, Diversity, and Equity) in Academic Medicine by Tung Nguyen, MD

2018-2019

• IM4US: The Intersection of Social Justice and Integrative Health Care by Priscilla Abercrombie, RN, NP, PhD; Rhonda Smith; Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD; and Maria Chao, DrPH, MPA
• Prescribing Nature for Health: Taking Medicine into the Woods by Nooshin Razani, MD, and Jenifer Matthews, MD
• Mindful Surgeon: Demonstrating the Possibility and Value of Contemplative Cognitive Training in Surgery by Carter Lebares, MD
• MDMA – Assisted Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Early reports and announcement of a new multicenter trial by Sylver Quevedo, MD

2017-2018

• A Review of the 2018 ICIMH Meeting by Osher Center members who attended the 2018 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health in Baltimore. 
• Collaboration, Possibilities, and Future Approaches to Polycystic Kidney Disease by Jennifer Ashby, DAOM, LAc, and Meyeon Park, MD
• Toward Just Healthcare for All: Revolutionary Reflections on Mindfulness, Social Justice, and Integrative Medicine by Rhonda V. Magee, MA, JD
• Kanbar Lecture on Innovations in Integrative Medicine: The Entanglement of Meditation and Medicine, and What Love’s Got to Do With It by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. The video of this presentation is now online at UCTV.
• Mindfulness-based approaches to promoting women’s mental health during pregnancy and parenting: Novel targets and delivery formats by Jennifer Felder, PhD
• Mind-Body Medicine for Children and Adolescents: An Integrative medicine approach to successfully incorporating these tools into clinical care by David Becker, MD
• Modern and Traditional Dietary Approaches for Diabetes Mellitus by Rick Hecht, MD; Carla Kuon, MD; Anand Dhruva, MD; and Evelyn Ho, PhD
• Movement, Breath and Psyche: Yoga and Other Mind-Body Therapies for Treating Major Depression by Sudha Prathikanti, MD
• Managing Stress, Building Resilience: The Imperative for Mind-Body Medicine in Health Professions Education by Aviad Haramati, PhD

2016-2017 

• Do 4.2 Million Children Need Ritalin? The Integrative Treatment of ADHD by Sandy Newmark, MD 
• New Developments in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Thomas Neylan, MD 
• Complementary Therapies in Treatment and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease by Myriam Hunink, MD, PhD 
• "Minding" Our Bodies: Research on the Impact of Tai Chi on Cognitive-Neuromuscular Interactions in Older Adults by Peter M. Wayne, PhD 
• Endometriosis-Associated Chronic Pelvic Pain: An Integrative Approach by Judith Cuneo, MD 
• Acupuncture and the Placebo Effect by Lisa Conboy, MA, MS, ScD 
• Comparative Effectiveness Research on Acupuncture by Claudia Witt, MD, MBA 
• Marijuana: Is It Medicine Yet? by Donald Abrams, MD 

2015-2016 

• Time to Reconsider the Concept and Treatment of Teenage Depression? by Eva Henje-Blom, PhD 
• Approach to Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Case Presentation & Panel Discussion by Rick Hecht, MD; Najwa El-Nachef, MD; and Kevin Barrows, MD 
• Integrative Approaches to Chronic Pain by Diana Coffa, MD 
• Neural Mechanisms Supporting the Modulation of Pain and Health by Mindfulness Meditation by Fadel Zeidan, PhD 
• Communitas: Transforming the Experience of Pediatric Chronic Illness by Brittany Blockman, MD 
• Are We All Addicted? Why We Get Hooked on Habits and How Mindfulness Can Help Change our Behaviors (and Brains) by Judson Brewer, MD, PhD 
• Stretching, Connective Tissue, Chronic Pain, and Cancer by Helene Langevin, MD 
• Integrative Urologic Oncology by Jonathan Brajtbord, MD