Recently ACAM welcomed over 300 practitioners to the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego for 4 days of intimate integrative medicine training.
Workshops on Hormones, Chelation Therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Biopuncture, Lyme Disease, and Oxidative Medicine took place at the symposium.
You may experience the meeting through our photo collage here.
Please save the date for our Fall Conference and Trade Show, Nov. 14-18, 2012 at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
One of my favourite American cities, it was a pleasure to return to San Diego for the first time in 10 years. Attending ACAM’s Spring conference, the flashbacks made their appearance.
The Westin Hotel Gaslamp, the site of the 4 day medical conference, is nicely placed, with access to the downtown core and restaurants, and not far from Seaport Village and Petco Park. Saturday morning I awakened to bullhorns, drums, marchers and chanters - a protest was in full swing at the hotel entrance by 7:00 am. I’m thinking: "I haven’t even delivered my presentation yet and already there's dismay and opposition!" (Seems there were a collection of disgruntled hotel workers exercising their right to protest lack of benefits, not a lecture on identifying toxic metals in children.)
As I shared at the beginning of my lecture, alluding to the aforementioned flashbacks, I recalled that in 1989 I visited San Diego for 1 month as a 4th year medical student. I signed up for an elective in Preventative Cardiology at UCSD La Jolla. At that time, the research being conducted linked menopause and increased risk of heart disease in women to cholesterol elevations that can occur at menopause http://bit.ly/7j1c3I. The intervention was to initiate Hormone Replacement Therapy and monitor cholesterol levels. I was young and green - and more interested in the beach, visiting my sister and the San Diego area than the idea of giving hormones to women to change lipid blood markers. The hypothesis wasn’t proven - HRT didn’t lower the women’s cholesterol effectively and that aspect of the program’s research died.
Fast forward 10 years to 1999 - my first ACAM conference, where my passion for learning true prevention and addressing underlying cause continued to be fed, having trained then in chelation therapy. Now I was attending training sessions that particularly held my interest! The studies published in the latter part of the last decade, as The Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) was being conducted, further piqued my interest in understanding lead’s role in various health conditions. And this is where today's post comes full circle.
Looking at lead’s biokinetics in the human body, it became apparent through my research that menopause is a time when lead mobilizes from bone storage in a woman, with increasing cholesterol (and uric acid) I suspect acting as compensatory defense mechanisms. The body is attempting to regulate and protect itself in the female at this time of transition and oxidative stress, which can also elevate blood pressure. The increased risk of postmenopausal women toward heart disease might be attributable to lead, not hormone deficiency - and the intervention that I propose needs to be examined is lead removal, or using antioxidants and other nutrients to manage its negative effects. Hopefully TACT will provide some answers about the clinical effects of chelation therapy in women, and later studies might unravel the mechanism.
"Looking back" is an opportunity for historical reflection and learning. Seeing the interconnections is part of the fun.
Guests at ACAM's Spring 2012 Education Summit are invited to attend a bonus sunset session with members from the ACAM Legal Quartet on Thursday, May 3rd from 5:30PM - 7:00PM.
Al Augustine and Jacques Simon will be leading the session titled: Protecting Your License From Government and Malpractice - A Legal Primer.
Complaints can arise from disgruntled patients, colleagues, or insurance companies. This seminar will provide practical advice about reducing the heightened legal risk faced by physicians who offer nonstandard therapies. Preventive strategies include understanding “hot spots” that have triggered board investigations, the legal status of the therapies one offers, and the mistakes that typically underlie board charges.
For more information on ACAM's Spring Summit and the various workshops and bonus sessions please visit www.acamsandiego.com.
Irvine, Calif -- The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) is delighted to offer CE Hours at the ACAM Spring 2012 Education Summit, taking place at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, May 3-6, 2012.
The Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine approved the courses: An Integrative Approach to Balancing Hormones for 14.5 CE Hours, Basic Chelation Therapy for 13.0 CE Hours, and Advanced Chelation Therapy for 10.0 CE Hours.
"Naturopathic physicians make up a large population in ACAM and we are pleased to now offer naturopaths their own category of continuing education," said Rachel Weaver, Director of Education and Operations for ACAM.
Also at the Summit will be workshops on: Biopuncture: An Approach to Pain Management and Musculoskeletal Medicine presented by HEEL, Lyme Disease, Hands-On Hyperbarics, and Oxidative Medicine. Get all the details at: www.acamsandiego.com
About ACAM: The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) is a not-for-profit Organization dedicated to educating physicians and other health care professionals on the safe and effective application of integrative medicine. ACAM's healthcare model focuses on prevention of illness and a strive for total wellness. ACAM is the voice of integrative medicine; our goals are to improve physician skills, knowledge and diagnostic procedures as they relate to integrative medicine; to support integrative medicine research; and to provide education on current standard of care as well as additional approaches to patient care.
Guests at ACAM's Spring Education Summit are invited to join Cyrex Laboratories for a healthy breakfast and a lecture from Aristo Vojdani, PhD, MSc, CLS, on: Array 5 - Systemic Autoimmune Reactivity Screen: Antibody Predictors of Complex Disease, on Friday, May 4th from 6:15AM - 7:45AM.
By the end of this presentation, the attendees will:
1. Be able to understand the immune response that leads to autoimmunity
2. Be able to recognize and assess at-risk patients
3. Be able to apply corresponding antigens to specific autoimmune disorders
About the Summit:
ACAM's Spring 2012 Education Summit is taking place May 3-6, 2012, at The Westin Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego. Four days of integrative medicine workshops will be offered on the topics of Chelation Therapy, Hormones, Biopuncture, Lyme Disease, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, and Oxidative Medicine. Guests have the opportunity to earn up to 22.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ over the duration of the Summit.
The Summit's Solutions Center will feature over 50 companies that support the integrative medicine community and will have representatives eager to chat about their various business solutions. Gourmet meals and snacks will be served in the Solutions Center with vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options for guests.
About the Speaker:
ACAM’s 2009 Linus Pauling Award recipient, Aristo Vojdani obtained his Ph.D. in the field of microbiology and clinical immunology with postdoctoral studies in tumor immunology. He is CEO and Technical Director of Immunosciences Lab., Inc.; a member of the editorial board of three scientific journals; and has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals. He is noted for his papers on autoimmunity and neuroimmunological diseases. In 2006, Dr. Vojdani was given the prestigious Herbert J. Rinkel Award by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) for excellence in teaching the techniques of environmental medicine.
Irvine, Calif -- The American College for Advancment in Medicine (ACAM) is pleased to offer guests Early Bird rates through April 1st for its Spring Education Summit in San Diego.
To reward attendees for registering early ACAM is discounting passport packages by $200 and individual courses by $100.
"We strive to provide our guests with the most value for their time away from practice and we're happy to discount our rates as a thank you to our attendees that enroll early," said Megan Marburger, Events and Marketing Manager for ACAM.
The Summit is taking place at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter and will offer integrative medicine education on Hormones, Chelation Therapy, Lyme Disease, Biopuncture, Oxidative Medicine, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, and Legal Issues. CME units are offered at the symposium.
For more information visit www.acamsandiego.com or call ACAM at 1-800-532-3688.
About ACAM: The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) is a not-for-profit Organization dedicated to educating physicians and other health care professionals on the safe and effective application of integrative medicine. ACAM's healthcare model focuses on prevention of illness and a strive for total wellness. ACAM is the voice of integrative medicine; our goals are to improve physician skills, knowledge and diagnostic procedures as they relate to integrative medicine; to support integrative medicine research; and to provide education on current standard of care as well as additional approaches to patient care.
Guests that register for the integrative medicine education event between noon on Friday, Feb. 3rd and noon on Monday, Feb. 6th, by either fax or phone, may take advantage of savings and earn chances to win prizes.
“ACAM is proud to be opening registration for our Spring Education Summit. Our Education Committee has assembled an incredible program that we look forward to sharing with the integrative community. We encourage practitioners to confirm their registrations early as space is limited and our 72 hour sale incentive is the perfect time to do so,” said Megan Marburger, Events and Marketing Manager for ACAM.
Interested parties may access more information about the ACAM Spring 2012 Education Summit online at www.acamsandiego.com or by contacting the Executive Office at 1-800-532-3688.
About ACAM: The American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) is a not-for-profit Organization dedicated to educating physicians and other health care professionals on the safe and effective application of integrative medicine. ACAM's healthcare model focuses on prevention of illness and a strive for total wellness. ACAM is the voice of integrative medicine; our goals are to improve physician skills, knowledge and diagnostic procedures as they relate to integrative medicine; to support integrative medicine research; and to provide education on current standard of care as well as additional approaches to patient care.
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