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SECOND INTERNATIONAL  CONGRESS ON TIBETAN MEDICINE

Audio Tapes available at www.conferencerecording.com

or 1-800-647-1100

November 5 - 8, 2003  
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC

ORGANIZERS

Director

Contact Information

Planning Committee

      CME Sponsoring Organization

      Co-Sponsoring Organizations

 

The conference is being organized and presented by Pro-Cultura, Inc.  Pro-Cultura is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness and facilitating understanding of traditional health systems, resources and knowledge among the medical and scientific communities, the general public, and among donor and humanitarian organizations. 

Pro-Cultura's goal is to build support for collaborative initiatives between the biomedical and the traditional health sector in an effort to promote protection and renewal of traditional/indigenous health knowledge as a means for developing sustainable solutions for improving global health equity

For more information about Pro-Cultura go to www.procultura.org

Director: Anna Souza, Pro-Cultura, Inc

Contact Information:

Pro-Cultura
 PO Box 185  
Pleasantville, NY 10570

Email: contact@tibetmedicine.org

 

Planning Committee

Vincanne Adams, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Programin the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California at San Francisco   

Leslie Blackhall, M.D., MTS, is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD Candidate,Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, he is directing a pilot study at MD Anderson's Hospital using Tibetan mind-body techniques with lymphoma and breast cancer patients

Dr. Lobsang Dhondup is a Tibetan Doctor presently involved in research at University of California at Santa Barbara on the efficacy of Tibetan herbs for treating Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease.

Frances Garrett, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Virginia doing her dissertation on Tibetan medicine. She is also directing the Tibetan Medicine Digital Library collections at the Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library based at the University of Virginia.

Eric Jacobson, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist affiliated with the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School , and with the Placebo Working Group hosted by the Division of Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapeutics, Harvard Medical School .

Dr. Yangdron Kalzang is a Tibetan Doctor practicing in San Franciso , CA

Lobsang Rabgye, PhD, University of California – Los Angeles

Chris Steward- Patterson, M.D. has dual appointments at the University of British Columbia in the faculties of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and also writes a health column for the Buddhist-oriented journal Shambhala Sun.

B. Alan Wallace, PhD., is one of the leading Tibetan Buddhist scholars in the world today, as well as a highly respected translator.

Dr. Phuntsog Wangmo Tibetan Doctor, Director, Department of Tibetan Medicine, Shang Shung Institute, Conway MA.

Ira Zunin, M.D., M.P.H., is President of the Hawaii State Consortium for Integrative Health Care; and Assistant Clinical Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Hawaii.

 

Co-Sponsoring Organizations -  Tibet House New York and Menla Center for Natural Medicine - PADMA, Inc. -  Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Journal - Shambhala Sun - Snowlion Publications - New Yuthog Institute of Tibetan Meidicine - Pharmanex - LDI Group, Inc. - The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, and others

 

CME Sponsoring Organization - Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center are accredited by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians and take responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.:

Certification: Beth Israel Medical Center designated this continuing medical education activity for 18 credit hours in Category 1 towards the Physicians Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit he/she actually spends in the educational activity. This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with ACCME essentials.

Faculty Disclosure Statement: The Faculty Disclosure Policy of Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center requires that faculty participating in CME activity disclose to the audience any relationship with a pharmaceutical or equipment company which might pose a potential, apparent or real conflict of interest in regard to their contribution to the activity and any discussions of unlabeled or investigated use of any commercial product or device not yet approved in the United States.

 

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