Massachusetts General Hospital

Acupuncture in Health and Disease

Date: 09/08/2011 - 09/08/2011
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Contact: All are welcome to attend. Please RSVP attendance to cssa@partners.org,
cssa@partners.org

Agenda:

Session I: 6:30 – 7:15 PM
“Oncology Acupuncture: a New Emerging Field in Medicine”
Speaker: Dr Weudong Lu, MB, PhD, MPH
Instructor and Licensed acupuncturist of Harvard Medical School

Session II: 7:30 – 8:15 PM
“How does Acupuncture Works? Brain Activity Underlying Acupuncture Efficacy”
Speaker: Dr Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LicAc
Assistant Professor of Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology, MGH

Q/A session and closing remarks: 8:15 – 8:30 PM
Facilitator: Dr Albert Yeung, MD, ScD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Primary Care Studies, Depression Clinical and Research Program, MGH

The purpose of the course:
We will give an introduction to the health providers (attendees) about the existent evidence of the use of acupuncture in different diseases, the practice of Tai Chi and Kung-Fu and health, the use of TCM in inflammation, and the challenges of modernization of TCM.

Course Description:
In each seminar, we will invite one HMS faculty member and one non-HMS faculty member TCM expert as speakers and one expert on TCM research HMS/non-HMS faculty member for a general discussion session. Each seminar will have a specific topic with focus in TCM modalities. The topics to address includes: acupuncture and health, inflammation concepts and application, obesity, cardiovascular disease.

Preregistration required? yes

Registration closed? no