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21 May 2008, 01:22
UCSF Today - Captain in Integrative Health Care Speaks at UCSF
This new series will feature a range of integrative pharmaceutical topics influential to children, teens and beforehand adolescents, and will ease parents in making decisions that are best for their families.
The inaugural lecture of the Pritzker Lecture Series on Integrative Paediatric and Juvenile Health is titled "The Impersonation of Integrative Medicine in Adolescent and Pediatric Medicine" and will feature integrative medicine pioneer Tieraona Low Dog, MD. The lecture grasp place on Tuesday, June 3, from noon to 1 p.m.
Herbst Hall on the Mount Zion campus. Seating is local and organizers ask that those wishing to be present at react to Christina Bernard at 415 353-7785 or bernardc ocim.ucsf.edu alongside May 25.
Print story E-mail story Low Dog received her medical degree from the University of Virgin Mexico School of Medicine. She is on the faculty of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where she currently serves as the director of education. Low Dog began her career in familiar prescription deeper than 25 years ago.
In addition to her work as a clinician and educator, Small Dog has been involved in national health policy and regulatory issues championing more than a decade.
In 2000, she was appointed by Head of the state Bill Clinton to serve on the Gray House Comission on Supplementary and Alternate Medicine Policy.
Last year, she completed a three-year term as a member of the Hortatory Council for the National Alliance of Health National Center representing Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Low Dog also served as president of the American Herbalists Guild, and ran a teaching clinic in Albuquerque. Tieraona has served as the elected chair of the United States Pharmacopeia Dietary Supplements-Information Pattern Expert Committee since 2000.
Her distinct honors of separation include the Martina de la Cruz medal for her work with indigenous medicines (1998), Time magazine"s Innovator in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2001), the Burton Kallman Scientific Award (2007) and NPR"s People"s Drugstore bestow (2007).
Low Dog is an internationally known speaker on topics ranging from the responsible use of herbal medicine and dietary supplements to integrative approaches to women"s health. With more than 30 issuance to her credit, she serves on the editorial and advisory timber of Menopause and Explore journals, Anticipation magazine and the American Botanical Council.
Short Dog has appeared on E!, ABC"s 20 20 and CNN, and is a everyday guest on Public Public Radio"s The People"s Pharmacy.
The mission of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is to transform the way medicament is practiced by researching the most cogent treatments from around the world, educating medical students, and treating patients with complete burden that addresses all aspects of health and wellness - biological, psychological, social and spiritual. Illness is a message," says Low Dog.
Western gp study it as something to be destroyed, on the other hand it can also tell us about how we animate our lives and what we can determine differently."
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