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Friday, Mar. 8, 2024 from 7:30 a.m to 1 p.m. (PDT)
Saturday, Mar. 9, 2023 from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (PDT)
Marina Village Conference Center, San Diego
Designed specifically for health care providers, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine designates this live activity for 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Enhance your knowledge and skills in integrative medicine, which is evidence-based whole-person care that incorporates all available healing approaches to achieve optimal health and wellbeing. Learn from experts, engage in interactive discussions, and participate in hands-on activities. Deepen your understanding and application of integrative medicine to enhance your clinical practice and patient experience.
Workshop Objectives
- Understand the scientific framework of mind-body practices on health and healing.
- Be familiar with a range of mindfulness-based practices that patients can utilize for their health and how to access those practices.
- Develop one or more self-practices that can be easily taught to a patient in a routine 15- or 20-minute office visit.
The workshop will cover a range of topics, including nutrition, mindfulness, osteopathic medicine, yoga, auriculotherapy, guided imagery and other evidence-based therapies. The agenda includes presentations, case discussions, and interactive sessions, which will provide you with practical tools and strategies to incorporate integrative medicine into your practice.
- Physicians (MD/DO) – $449 Early Bird before Jan. 19 (Regular Registration $499)
- Nurses and other Health Professionals – $349 Early Bird before Jan. 19 (Regular registration $399)
- Students and Residents – Contact cihinfo@health.ucsd.edu for a limited number of special pricing.
Schedule
Friday, Mar. 8, 2024
| 7:30-7:45 a.m. | Welcome | Introduction Center for Integrative Education Director Dr. Melanie Fiorella will share the inspiration behind this event and how to achieve optimal benefits from this workshop. |
Melanie Fiorella, MD |
| 7:45-9:15 a.m. | Breathing for Balance Learn the connection between breath and the nervous system and how to practice and teach breathing and evidence based breathing patterns that have beneficial health impacts. |
Melanie Fiorella, MD |
| 9:15-10:30 a.m. | Activating and Harnessing Guided Imagery to Boost Self-Efficacy Discover self-hypnosis and guided imagery techniques that tap into one's deep and directed self-healing ability. Amongst the many forms of meditation available today, guided imagery has a rich history among diverse cultures around the world, as it taps into the deep and directed healing abilities and faculties of the mind. In this session attendees will receive a brief review of the meditation literature over the past few decades that will include a focus on guided imagery techniques and their efficacy, including the Light-Induced Guided Healing Therapy (LIGHT) technique. Discussion will include a current UC San Diego LIGHT study to reduce burnout in healthcare providers. |
Paul Mills, PhD and Ying Wu, Research Scientist |
| 10:30-11:45 a.m. | Discover the Healing Potential of Auricular Therapy Learn to incorporate auriculotherapy into your practice to help patients manage pain, anxiety, insomnia, nausea, addiction, digestive disorders, and improve overall well-being. |
Alejandra Reyes, LAc, DACM |
11:45-1:00 p.m. |
Mindful Eating, Culinary Medicine This informative and interactive session will focus on how the healing power of food can be discussed during clinical encounters. You will be guided through an exploration of how to use food as a tool for improving physical, mental, and emotional well-being. |
Tiffany Holt, RDN |
Saturday, Mar. 9, 2024
| 7:00-8:00 a.m. | Meditation and Mindful Movement/Non-CME Begin your day practicing what you preach so that you can preach what you practice. |
Renée Lewis |
| 8:00-9:15 a.m. | Osteopathic Manual Medicine Learn the history and philosophy of OMM and discover certain techniques that practitioners can teach their patients. |
Megan Jolicoeur, DO |
| 9:15-11:00 a.m. | The Practice of Mindfulness in Medicine This session will discuss the basic pillars of mindfulness and how evidence supports their influence on health and well-being. We will explore how mindfulness might work to affect the brain and body And, we will cover easy ways to introduce your patients to mindfulness, how you can use it for your own stress reduction and cultivating focus, presence, and compassion. |
Cassandra Vieten, PhD |
| 11-12.30 p.m. | The Power of Positive Psychology The field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their lived experience. Foundational to this is the idea that happiness can be cultivated as a habit. In this session, participants will be introduced to basic positive psychology concepts that they will be able to use themselves and also impart to their patients. |
Deepa Sannidhi, MD |