Level 3: Integrative Evaluation and Intervention Basics

The Basics of Functional Pediatrics

Dr. Deborah Z Bain

Objectives:

1. Understanding the cycle of illness in the evolution of a disease state
2. 7R’s healing program as a way to organize a treatment plan
3. Basic treatment protocols in Pediatrics

Synopsis:
Functional Pediatric Medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease and takes a systems approach to identifying underlying imbalances that are contributing to a chronic state of poor health. Children today are plagued with increasingly chronic medical conditions including eczema, allergies, asthma, autism, and even autoimmune thyroiditis and chrohns disease. As a functional pediatrician I bring special tools and knowledge to these chronic states of health and help to bring full resolution of their health problems, not just managing their symptoms.

Integrative Hormone Support, Stimulation & Replacement

Dr. Robert K Clendenin

Objectives:

1. Basic Hormone Support For Self Health
2. Stimulation Of Endocrine Glands Provided By A Healthcare Practitioner
3. Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapies 

Synopsis:
There are many techniques and supplements that can support the production of hormones. In most cases, unless an endocrine gland has been surgically removed or radiated, an effort should be made to try to stimulate gland recovery. Glandular regeneration can be approached through several different therapies. Various types of stem cell therapies will be discussed. Prescription and non-prescription hormone therapies will be reviewed.

Integrative Medicine: Mental & Attitudinal Evaluation

Dr. W. Lee Cowden

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Symptoms: An Integrative Perspective of Their Characteristics & Exacerbating/Ameliorating Factors

Dr. Pieter De Wet

Objectives:

1. Gain a more profound understanding of how to interview a patient to gain information on the particular characterisitcs of their symptoms in order to shed light on their possible causes and contributing factors.
2. Learn how to interpret these symptoms based on their particular characteristics including exacerbating and ameliorating factors in order  to fascilitate accurate diagnosis.
3. Learn based on accurate and comprehensive history taking how to guide patients to the best integrative treatment options to address their health challenges

Synopsis:
Taking a thorough history is a critical component of a high quality integrative medicine approach to accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of patients presenting to your practice with health challenges. Of great importance is learning how to interview a patient to gain helpful information about all their symptoms including the specific characteristics. These also include learning about factors that might be contributing to exacerbations and those factors that might be ameliorating their symptoms. I detailed history that includes these elements makes an accurate diagnosis much more likely not just in terms of the particular disease but also in terms of discovering contributing and ameliorating factors that makes effective treatment strategies easier to discern and improved health easier to achieve.

Timing of Symptoms: Relationship To Other Events & Response To Traumas, Surgeries & Therapies From An Integrative Perspective

Dr. Pieter De Wet

Objectives:

1. Gain a better understanding on how to take a history that sheds light on the timing of symptoms and their potential relationship to specific traumatic events that preceded the development of those specific symptoms or diseases.
2. Learn how to gain an understanding and chart the timing of symptoms in comparison to critical events including physical and emotional traumas that are linked to those symptoms based on the patient’s  life timeline, life timeline cycles,  project purpose cycles and biogeneological cycles.
3. Learn how to take a detailed and accurate history on the timing, efficacy and side effects of previous treatments including conventional (including surgical and pharmaceutical) and integrative and the results of those treatments including benefits and side effects over the short, medium and long term on the patient’s condition(s).

Synopsis:
Taking a thorough history is a critical component of a high quality integrative medicine approach to accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of patients presenting to your practice with health challenges. This includes gaining a thorough understanding of the timing of symptoms and their relationships to key events including physical or emotional traumas that preceded their development. Also very helpful is taking note if there are cycles of recurrence that can be discerned based on the patient’s life time line and mapping those to help the patient become aware of those. As powerful is helping patients become aware of events that occurred in the womb or surrounding pregnancy or even biogeneological events that might be impacting their health now and how that might be linked to the timing of their present health challenges. We will also be exploring how to take a thorough history on the timing, efficacy and side effects of previous conventional and integrative treatments that patients have undergone. 

The Wellness Pyramid: How To Stem The Tsunami Of Pre-Sick In The USE

Dr. V John Gonino

Objectives:

1. Working Framework for doctors to help patients with complex disease states such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
2. Helps doctors organize their problem-solving plan
3. Helps doctors understand the real cause(s) of their patient’s illnesses

Synopsis:
The number of patients in the United States who present with multiple symptoms and no definitive diagnosis, or a diagnosis felt to have “no known cause” and “no known cure” is staggering. If left to the traditional medical management model, ie, identify the symptom, write a prescription for a drug to treat the sumptom, the patient will eventually become sick enough to “do something”, ie, dialysis, surgery, chemotherapy, radition, etc.  In April of 1996, Dr. Majid Ali taught me a framework for managing the “pre-sick” to restore them to health before their health deteriorated.  Over the last 19 years we have refined this pyramid, polished it up a bit, if you will, to the point where we have had a great deal of success in restoring patients to true wellness, which will be defined in this lecture.  This construct allows all players involved in the game, doctors, patient, insurance company to win. 

How To Take and Integrate Emotional History and Spiritual History

Dr. James E Lemire

Objectives:

1. Review matrix and timeline
2. How to taking integrate in emotional history
3. How to take an integrate a spiritual history

Synopsis:
Using a functional medicine  matrix will establish a clinical time line. Will review appropriate  gathering of information  to establish a functional medicine  emotional and  spiritual history. We will discuss applying the history  to the functional time line  and appropriate use in establishing diagnosis and treatment. 

How To Take and Integrate Social and Family History

Dr. James E Lemire

Objectives:

1. Review matrix and time line
2. How to take and integrate social history
3. ?How to take and integrate family history

Synopsis:
Using a functional medicine  matrix will establish a clinical time line. Will review appropriate  gathering of information  to establish a functional medicine  social and  family history. We will discuss applying the history  to the functional time tine appropriate use in establishing diagnosis and treatment. 

Deliverance: Freedom from Captivity

Dr. Admerle Hoskins

Objectives:

1. To define deliverance, review historical and current perspectives, and highlight methodology.
2. To review signs, symptoms, and identify common root causes of cases indicating a need for deliverance.
3. To examine Case Studies and discuss deliverance as a spiritual tool for healing. 

Synopsis:
This session is brought from the perspective of a practicing holistic physican with three decades of experience in the area of healing deliverance.  This session will be interesting to every level of clinician as we address both common and unusual symptomatic cases in which deliverance as an intervention  results in positive outcomes in  fruitful lives with enhanced quality and functional capacity. An overview of the historical origin, components, practice methodology, trends and patterns will be discussed. Participants will have opportunity to expand their awareness and incorporate this practice toward health and wholeness.

Integrative Medicine in the Corporate World

Dr. Ben Edwards

Objectives:

1. Understand Wellness needs of companies
2. Understand various business models
3. Understand overhead costs between conventional model and direct pay model

Synopsis:
Dr. Edwards and Mr. Allen will be discussing their relationship as company owner and company physician.  Mr. Allen will share his journey into corporate wellness and specifically into nutrition and integrative approaches.  Dr. Edwards and Mr. Allen will each share what they have learned over the past 3 years as they have built an integrative corporate wellness model.

Integrative Medicine in the Corporate World

Dr. Doug Allen

Objectives:

1. Understand Wellness needs of companies
2. Understand various business models
3. Understand overhead costs between conventional model and direct pay model

Synopsis:
Dr. Edwards and Mr. Allen will be discussing their relationship as company owner and company physician.  Mr. Allen will share his journey into corporate wellness and specifically into nutrition and integrative approaches.  Dr. Edwards and Mr. Allen will each share what they have learned over the past 3 years as they have built an integrative corporate wellness model.

Connection or “What does LOVE got to do with it?”

Dr. Jorge Moreno

Objectives:

1. Understand the importance and relevance of connection to health.
2. What does connection look like.
3. How do we become better at connecting.

Synopsis:
The medical literature is inundated with the importance of social connections. We will explore the data and practical relevant cases. We will elucidate the importance of connection and how to become better at connecting.

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Dr. Patricia Whatcott

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Dr. Rhett Bergeron

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Healthy Relationship Boundaries: Essential for Better Physical and Mental Health

Dr. Nick Eno

Objectives:

1. Define boundaries and explain necessary parameter (scope)
2. Help attendees assess the efficacy of their own boundaries
3. Give tools to forge and maintain appropriate boundaries for optimum health

Synopsis:
Boundaries define what is acceptable and consonant with a person’s value system.  The ability to set and maintain appropriate boundaries is essential for better physical and mental health.  This seminar is intended to help participants understand what boundaries are, assist them in assessing their own boundaries and give them tools to forge and maintain appropriate boundaries for optimum health.