Lifestyle Interventions
Dr. Helene Langevin: The Science of Stretch
Conversations That Matter
Stuart McNish interviewed Dr. Helene Langevin on Conversations That Matter to learn more about the science of stretch, and connective tissue, or fascia, as it’s also known.
The American Diet Gone Bad: Refined Grains
Optimizing Wellbeing in Older Age
Dr. Robert Baron, UCSF Professor of Medicine, highlights the importance of switching to a whole grain diet. The healthiest diet limit sugars, refined grains, and large amounts of saturated and trans fat. He advises to eat fruits and vegetables, healthy oils, whole grains, legumes and nuts.
Mind Body Medicine -Emerging Science and Economics
Presenter: Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH
Dr. Darshan Mehta, Associate Education Director for the Osher Center and Medical Director for the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine recently gave a presentation as part of the Vermont University Laura Mann Integrative Health Lecture Series. His presentation explores the interface between the science and economics of mind body medicine.
Toxic Plants, Fungi, and Herbal Supplements
Staying Healthy in a Toxic Environment: Poisonings, Overdoses, and Toxic Exposures
Substances that might seem innocent can be toxic. Dr. Kent Olson is the Medical Director of the San Francisco Poison Control System. He helps us understand when plants and fungi can be toxic and how to avoid misbegotten uses of herbal medications.
Pain and Opioid Management in Veterans in Primary Care
Evidence, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions in the Use of Collaborative and Integrated Care Approaches
Karen Seal, MD, MPH is a professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She is based at the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS), where she is director of the Integrated Care Clinic for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans and director of the Integrated Pain Team (IPT) Clinic.
Drs. Langevin and Wayne panel discussion “Minding the Gaps in Medical Research”
MIT Media Lab
Presenters: Helene Langevin, MD and Peter Wayne, PhD
A “side effect” of medical specialization and scientific reductionism is that our understanding of cross-system connections in human health and disease is remarkably limited. This affects the ability of medicine to care for the whole patient. Research at the Osher Center draws on systems biology frameworks from both modern science and non-conventional healing traditions to inform a more integrated model of health and health care.
Headache Management, Osher Clinical Center
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds
Presenters: Carolyn Bernstein, MD, Donald Levy, MD, Meghan Searl, PhD, Meredith Beaton Starr, Matthew Kowalski, DC
The Osher Clinical Center for Integrative Medicine presented a clinical case on ‘Integrated and Integrative Headache Management’
Integrative Medicine Network Forum – Alessio Fasano, Keynote
Dr. Alessio Fasano, from MGH, gave a well received keynote presentation at the IM Network Forum, 2016. His talk focused on the microbiome and intestinal permeability and their relevance to integrative medicine research and patient care.
Integrative Medicine Network Forum, Morning Session
Introduction and Welcome by Drs. Helene Langevin and Peter Wayne, Osher Center
Keynote presentation by Dr. Alessio Fasano, MGH
Clinical Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A, moderated by Dr. Darshan Mehta, Osher Center/MGH
Panelists include Drs. Alessio Fasano (MGH), Ather Ali, (Yale School of Medicine), Anthony Lembo (BIDMC) and Donald Levy (Osher Center)
Clinical Case Presentation: Integrative Nursing: An Ever-Evolving Caring Science
Presenting Institution: Integrative Nursing Program, Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)
Integrative Medicine Grand Grounds
Gastrointestinal Distress: One patient’s ongoing journey
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Presenters: Donald Levy, MD; Walter Chan, MD; Randall Paulsen, MD
Exercising your body and mind: Tai Chi for enhancing motor and cognitive function in Parkinson’s disease
Peter Wayne, PhD presents his work on Tai Chi and Parkinson’s disease at the Davis Phinney Foundation’s Victory Summit, 2015.
Zakim Center, Reiki Therapy
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Colleagues from the Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute gave a very well received clinical presentation on Reiki Therapy.
Presenters: Patricia Arcari, PhD, RN, AHN-BC; Libby Barnett, MSW; Kathy Guimond, BSN, RN, CCRN; Bambi P. Mathay, LMT, NCTMB, RMT; Judith Frazier, RN, BA, M.Ed.
The Atlas of Emotions: Designing Emotional Awareness
UCSF Psychiatry Professor Emeritus Paul Ekman, PhD, and UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Fellow Eve Ekman, PhD, discuss their recent work creating the Atlas of Emotions, an online tool to help convey the spectrum of emotion visually, at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds. The atlas was inspired by a series of conversations between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman.
Nutritional Health Coaching in an Integrative Setting
Treating the Whole Patient
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Presenters: Caitlin Hosmer-Kirby, MS, RD, Kathy McManus, MS, RD, LDN, Donald Levy, MD
This is Your Brain on Meditation: How Meditation Impacts the Brain and Implications for Health
How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships.
Recorded as part of the series Integrative Medicine and Mindfulness: From the Monastery to Modern Medical Practice.
What Do We Really Know About Meditation and Health?
Does the science live up to the hype? Dr. Rck Hecht, the director of research at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine looks at the effects of meditation on health and behavior.
Calmare Therapy – an integrative pain treatment: what is it, and does it help?
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Presenters: Ezra Cohen, MD, Yvonne Lee, MD, MMSc., Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Helene Langevin, MD
Stretching, Connective Tissue, Chronic Pain, and Cancer
Dr. Helene Langevin visits UCSF, presenting on the importance of connective tissue in the body and its link to the immune system. She talks about recent findings on the effects of stretching on inflammation and fibrosis and the the relevance of these findings to chronic pain and cancer. Dr. Langevin is the director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Berklee College of Music, Integrative Health through Music Therapy
Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Osher Clinical Center
Presenter: Dr. Suzanne Hanser, Chair of the Music Therapy Department at Berklee College of Music. She is joined by discussant, Dr. Robert Saper, Founder and director of the Boston Medical Center Program for Integrative Medicine and Health Disparities.