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Helene Langevin, M.D., sworn in as director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Helene Langevin, M.D., was sworn in as director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) on November 26, 2018. Prior to her arrival, she worked at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, jointly based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Langevin served as director of the Osher Center and professor-in-residence of medicine at Harvard Medical School since 2012. She has also served as a visiting professor of neurological sciences at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington.
Osher Collaborative LIVE Forum Recap
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Vol. 24, No. 8
The Osher Collaborative gathered for our third LIVE Forum to discuss the recently published Collaborative editorial in the JACM column, Osher Collaborative Forum: Outlooks, Opinions, and Opportunities, Practice Drift: Are There Risks When Integrative Medicine Physicians Exceed Their Scope?
Osher Collaborative 2018 Annual Meeting
(Stockholm, Sweden)
The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Osher Collaborative was hosted by the Karolinska Institutet Osher Center in Stockholm, Sweden. In attendance were core leaders from each of the seven Osher Centers for Integrative Medicine, including members from our newest Osher Center at University of Washington. The Osher Collaborative members were joined by Bernard Osher, Barbro Osher, and Mary Bitterman, of The Bernard Osher Foundation.
Stretching Found to Reduce Tumor Growth in Mice
NBC News Report Features Dr. Helene Langevin
In May 2018, researchers working on an study conducted at the Osher Center’s Connective Tissue Lab published “Stretching Reduces Tumor Growth in a Mouse Breast Cancer Model” in Scientific Reports. The principal investigator, Dr. Helene Langevin, has been featured in this NBC NECN report on the effects that stretching can have on tumors.
Dr. Helene Langevin selected as director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the selection of Helene M. Langevin, M.D., C.M., as director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). Dr. Langevin is expected to join NIH in November 2018.
Call for Applications
Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine - Harvard Medical School
The Harvard Medical School Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine is a NIH-funded three year joint program of Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals. The program accepts postdoctoral candidates including physicians, anthropologists, health behaviorists, sociologists, psychologists and integrative medicine (IM) providers with doctoral degrees who are interested in research training towards academic careers in integrative medicine.
Practice Drift: Are There Risks When Integrative Medicine Physicians Exceed Their Scope?
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Melinda Ring and Sandy Newmark. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Published Online: 1 August 2018
Osher Collaborative Forum: Outlooks, Opinions and Opportunities
Call for Applications
Training in Research in Integrative Medicine T-32 Fellowship Program
The UCSF Osher Center’s Training in Research in Integrative Medicine (TRIM), is a research fellowship program funded by a T-32 Training Grant from NIH/NCCIH. They are requesting new applications for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowship positions to begin August 2019..
University of Washington joins the Osher Collaborative for Integrative Medicine
Announcing the Seventh Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
With a $5.5 million grant from the San Francisco-based Bernard Osher Foundation, UW Medicine is strengthening its work in integrative medicine.
Osher Collaborative at ICIMH 2018
Nearly 50 members of the Osher Collaborative attended the 2018 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health, representing all 6 of our United States based Osher Centers.
Mindfulness in Corporate America: Is the Trojan Horse Ethical?
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Wolever, Ruth Q., Schwartz, E. Robert, and Schoenberg, Poppy L.A. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Published Online: 2 May 2018
Osher Collaborative Forum: Outlooks, Opinions and Opportunities
Northwestern Osher Center Receives Community-Engaged Research Partnership Award
Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities
2018 Award Winner: Cooking Up Health: Docs & Kids in the Kitchen
In 2016, an Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) seed grant award enabled the strong partnership foundation to address childhood obesity issues and foster the development of a sustainable program for the delivery of cooking and nutrition education in the community by future physicians. The unique Cooking Up Health is an elective course at Feinberg which teaches medical students about nutrition through the lens of culinary medicine and community health and hands-on cooking. The medical students then deliver the healthy habit messages to Chicago Public Schools elementary school students in underserved communities.
The “New Organ” in the News: Is It Real and What Does It Mean?
Helene Langevin Presents Grand Rounds (Harvard Osher Center)
Recent news has shown a buzzing wave of media activity surrounding the report of a “new organ” permeating the whole body that could be important for cancer spread. Dr. Langevin discussed these findings in the context of previous research on connective and interstitial tissues.
How personal experience as a racial minority led to a career studying compassion meditation in diverse populations
Mind & Life Institute Interview with Helen Weng (UCSF Osher Center)
An Interview with Mind & Life Fellow, Helen Weng, PhD.
Helen is interested in how contemplative practices can improve communication within and between individuals, and how this in turn improves psychological and physical health. Her work is focused on developing a novel fMRI task to measure mindful breath awareness, using community-engaged approaches to adapt fMRI study procedures to underrepresented populations from diverse contemplative communities, and understanding how mindfulness-based interventions impact body awareness and psychophysiological variables.
Harvard Scientists Ask “What is the Point?” in Challenge to Acupuncture Researchers
JACM Publication by Helene Langevin and Peter Wayne (Harvard Osher Center)
In this provocative JACM article, “What Is the Point? The Problem with Acupuncture Research That No One Wants to Talk About,” Drs. Langevin and Wayne argue that failure to use clear terminology and rigorously investigate the subject of acupuncture points has hindered the growing legitimacy of acupuncture as an evidence-based therapy.
How Alternative Treatment Helps Chronic Pain, Opioid Addiction
News Channel 5 with Dr. Lindsey McKernan (Vanderbilt Osher Center)
As lawmakers debate on bills that could impact the opioid crisis in Tennessee, people have been looking for alternative treatments to help with chronic pain and, in many cases, addiction. Steve Olson has been taking individual and group clinical hypnosis sessions at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine on West End in Nashville.
8 Positive Skills for Stress Relief
Chicago Health Magazine with Judith Moskowitz (Northwestern Osher Center)
Social psychologist Judith Moskowitz, PhD, MPH, director of research at Northwestern Medicine’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, discovered the power of positive emotions 20 years ago when she was researching how men who were caregivers of their partners with HIV — a terminal illness at the time — coped with negative emotions and depression caused by their situation. Surprisingly, the caregivers wondered out loud why they weren’t asked about the positive, meaningful moments they experienced.
Stop Stressing Out and Start Breathing, Deeply
CNN Interview with Dr. Darshan Mehta (Harvard Osher Center)
What’s one thing you can do right now to stop stressing out? Start breathing deeply. Here’s why it works.
Integrative Medicine and the Imperative for Health Justice
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Chao, Maria T. and Adler, Shelley R. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. February 2018, 24(2): 101-103.
Osher Collaborative Forum: Outlooks, Opinions and Opportunities
New JACM Column Partnership with the Osher Collaborative for Integrative Medicine
Osher Collaborative Forum: Outlooks, Opinions & Opportunities
Weeks, John. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. February 2018, 24(2): 99-100.