News Releases

01/31/2013

Integrative medicine, which incorporates traditional healing techniques from the East with Western medicine, is helping to transform health care, and millions of Americans are now uisng alternative and complementary therapies to meet their health needs. 

 

This daylong UCLA conference will highlight future trends and introduce participants to the many career paths available in integrative medicine and related fields. The event will feature lectures, panel discussions and demonstrations by experienced practitioners and researchers. Topics will include clinical careers in integrative medicine, creative arts therapies, research and health care policy.

 

Undergraduates from the UCLA student group NCAM (Nutrition, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine) organized the conference with support from the UCLA Center for East–West Medicine.  

 

For more program information, parking and directions please visit the conference website.  

 

WHO:  

Featured speakers include:

John Weeks (keynote)

Writer and executive director of the Integrator Blog

 

Ka-Kit Hui, M.D., (keynote)

Founder and director of the UCLA Center for East–West Medicine

 

Ryan Abbott, M.D.

Southwestern Law School

 

Robert Carroll, M.D.

Past vice president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy

 

Licensed marriage and family therapist with clinical art therapy training

 

Founding director of the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles

 

Michael Goldstein, Ph.D.

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

 

Mary Hardy, M.D.

UCLA Simms/Mann Center for Integrative Oncology

 

Founding director, UCLArts and Healing

 

Edward Hui, M.D.

UCLA Center for East–West Medicine, general internal medicine

 

Suzie Kline, Ph.D.

Huntington Memorial Hospital

 

Bruce Naliboff, Ph.D.

UCLA Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress

 

Founder and president of Music 4 Life

 

Sonya Pritzker, Ph.D.

UCLA Center for East–West Medicine

 

Myles Spar, M.D.

Director of integrative medicine at the Venice Family Clinic

 

Lawrence Taw, M.D.

UCLA Center for East–West Medicine

 

President of the California Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association

 

 

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2 

 

UCLA Neuroscience Research Building auditorium

635 Charles Young Dr. South, Los Angeles 90095 (map)

 

Rachel Champeau | UCLA Health Sciences Media Relations | 310-794-0777

Sue Fan | UCLA Center for East–West Medicine | 310-794-0712

 

Visit the parking kiosk on Westwood Boulevard after entering the UCLA campus from the south.