The Hormone Connection: How Hormones Impact Food Sensitivity™Eric Dorninger, ND, LAc |
About Dr. Eric DorningerDr. Eric Dorninger is a Naturopathic Doctor and licensed Acupuncturist. He practices at Roots and Branches Integrative Health Care in Boulder, Colorado. His practice offers the best in alternative healthcare, including acupuncture and naturopathic care, targeted vitamin and herb therapies, and personalized nutrition. Dr. Dorninger completed his undergraduate studies in Kinesiology from the University of Colorado, Boulder and earned two postgraduate degrees from Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington. For over 16 years, he has taught at schools and universities, including nutrition courses at Naropa University. He was a teaching assistant at Bastyr University for five years and went on to teach subjects including physiology, laboratory diagnostics, and men’s health at Seven Bowls School of Nutrition, Nourishment, and Healing in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Dorninger seeks to understand the underlying causes of unresolved illness and formulate care plans for resolving these complex medical conditions. He actively researches meridians, points, qi gong, shiatsu, Chinese herbs, and detoxification combining the best of eastern and western medicine. |
Awakening Ophelia: Being Able to Assess and Manage Eating Disorders in Your Patient PopulationLyn Patrick, ND |
About Dr. Lyn PatrickLyn Patrick ND graduated from Bastyr University in 1984 with a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and has been in private practice as a state licensed naturopathic physician in Arizona and Colorado for the last 30 years.Dr. Patrick is a published author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and has been a Contributing Editor for Alternative Medicine Review, a Medline-indexed journal of complementary/alternative medical research. She speaks internationally on the integrative medical treatment of chronic hepatitis C, environmental medicine, liver disease, endocrine disruption, metal toxicology and other topics. She is a current member of the Board of Directors of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine (ACAM) and a planner and faculty member for ACAM’s continuing medical education conferences, lecturing in the area of chelation and metal toxicology. She is a founding partner and educator for Progressive Medical Education, an online continuing education site for primary care providers Progressive Medical Education. She is also a founding partner and presenter at the Environmental Health Symposium, an international environmental medicine conference based in the United States. In her spare time, she enjoys biking, hiking and kayaking the mountains, lakes, and rivers of southwestern Colorado. |
Water – Fountain of Aging & Disease?Tina Beaudoin, ND |
About Dr. Tina BeaudoinDr. Beaudoin is passionate about working with patients to relieve pain and suffering while restoring health and vitality. She earned a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University. Dr. Beaudoin is dedicated to improving access to naturopathic health care and education. Since 2012, she has been serving as the President of the New Hampshire Association of Naturopathic Doctors. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Naturopathic Academy of the Environmental Medicine. |
Healing in Underserved Communities: Sustainable Approaches and Clinical PearlsJeff Geller, MD |
About Dr. Jeff GellerJeffrey Geller practices family medicine, integrative medicine, and group visits and is the current president of the non-profit IM4US (Integrative Medicine for the Underserved). He has served as the Director of Integrative Medicine and Medical Group Visit Programs for the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center in Lawrence Massachusetts since 1999. GLFHC is a federally qualified community health center in the poorest city in New England. His practice integrates the most accessible of allopathic and alternative medicine including acupuncture, hypnosis, herbal medicine, mind body, nutrition, functional medicine, and OMT. He serves as faculty for the Lawrence Family Practice residency and lectures frequently as a clinical professor to medical students at Tufts and the University of Massachusetts medical schools. He is now mainly identified as an innovator in delivery of health care by creating and using an empowerment based model for group medical visits, which are a form of shared medical appointments. He created and is the director of the HIP Fellowship (Holistic, Integrative, and Pluristic), the first fellowship of its kind designed to train family physicians in integrative medicine skills specifically aimed at treating the underserved. He is one of the founding members of IM4US a non-profit organization which aims to bring best integrative practices of healing to the poor. |
The Deep Dive into Low Self-EsteemAmy Rothenberg, ND |
About Dr. Amy RothenbergDr. Rothenberg, a 1986 graduate of NCNM practices in Connecticut www.nhcmed.com. She blogs for the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-rothenberg-nd/ and enjoys writing and speaking on topics in natural medicine. Her book, The A Cappella Singer Who Lost Her Voice & Other Stories From Natural Medicine, was published in 2010. She sat on the Board of the AANP & is the immediate past president of the MSND where she spearheaded the successful licensure of NDs in Massachusetts. Dr. Rothenberg and her husband Paul Herscu, ND, MPH, have taught 1000s of students and doctors classical homeopathy across the US & abroad through the New England School of Homeopathy, helping practitioners grasp both the broadest and most detailed understanding of how homeopathy exemplifies the vitalistic tradition within naturopathic medicine. She has raised three wonderful children and spends much of her non-working hours in her art studio and on the ballroom dance floor. |
Hormesis and Naturopathic Medicine: Getting the Dose RightJacob Schor, ND, FABNO |
About Dr. Jacob SchorDr. Schor is a 1991 graduate of National College of Naturopathic Medicine and has practiced in Denver with his wife Rena Bloom, ND since graduation. He has served the profession in various capacities, including:
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Stealth Infections: Gaining GroundLori DiBacco, ND |
About Dr. Lori DiBaccoDr. DiBacco is a licensed naturopathic doctor with over ten years of experience helping patients get well. She works with people of all ages with acute and chronic illnesses, and those that have been difficult to treat. Dr. DiBacco specializes in women’s medicine, pediatrics, endocrinology, gastroenterology and chronic disease. With all of her patients, Dr. DiBacco takes the time to really understand their experience of illness. She offers a variety of investigative and therapeutic tools and develops comprehensive plans to restore each patient’s health. Dr. DiBacco is practicing at New Hampshire Health & Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire. In the past, she worked with Dr. Shiva Barton at Winchester Natural Health in Massachusetts and at Northeast Integrative Medicine in Bedford, NH. Dr. DiBacco also co-created the Whole Health Detox, a four-week detoxification program. Dr. Lori DiBacco is a member of the New Hampshire Association of Naturopathic Doctors and Massachusetts Society of Naturopathic Doctors, and the Association for Advancement of Restorative Medicine (AARM). She is Past President of the Massachusetts Society of Naturopathic Doctors. Dr. DiBacco is the proud mom of her two boys, Thomas and Leo, and partner to Edward. She enjoys her free time hiking, running, and adventuring in the woods. |
Mid-Life Women’s Sexual HealthMichelle J Pouliot, ND |
About Dr. Michelle PouliotMichelle J. Pouliot N.D. is a naturopathic physician specializing in women’s health and integrative cardiovascular medicine. For the past 25 years in northwest Connecticut, her practice has focused on helping women with osteoporosis and hormonal issues such as PMS, endometriosis, menopause, and sexual health concerns. In her general practice, Dr. Pouliot treats men and women for cardiovascular and digestive conditions, and inflammation disorders such as arthritis and auto immune disease. In the past 15 years, she has taught full day seminars to physicians throughout the U.S. on the topic of naturopathic approaches to menopause, reproductive health and osteoporosis. She received her naturopathic doctorate (N.D.) from Bastyr University in 1991, and a B.S. in biochemistry and animal behavior from the University of Massachusetts in 1981. In September 2011, she opened a private practice, the New Hartford Naturopathic Health Center LLC. |
The Gift of Lyme disease in Healing Trauma: The Psycho-spiritual Complexity of this Misunderstood MicrobeJulia Greenspan, ND |
About Dr. Julia GreenspanDr. Julia Greenspan has been in private practice for over ten years, establishing Greenhouse Naturopathic Medicine in 2006 after graduating from National University of Natural Medicine. Dr. Greenspan holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She worked several years in social work and crisis management before attending medical school. She served as the Chair for the Naturopathic Board of Examiners for the State of New Hampshire for five years. She has been interviewed as an expert in Lyme disease and natural medicine with WMUR, NECN, and Union Leader. She has been published in the NDNR. She is also trained in Reiki, Shamanic healing arts, Melchizedek Method, Magnified Healing, Biomagnetic Pair Therapy and Microbioenergetics. She is also completing training in Qi Gong for Self-Healing. She is a mother of two and a life long student in the field of spirit and science. |
Integrative health care has primarily been available to the financially fortunate, and not to the populations who experience the greatest need. Integrative care is especially effective in working with the underserved, a group that lives mostly in poverty, but that effectiveness depends upon appropriate planning for the characteristics of this population. Models of care now exist allowing dramatic cost reduction, improved outcomes, and improved patient satisfaction among even the most needy of populations. One model of care is Group Medical Visits. Group Medical Visits are growing rapidly as a mechanism to provide medical care. They particularly excel at treatment of chronic illness and conditions, while addressing mental wellbeing. Often group medical visits have more time for participants to freely exchange ideas and best practices than a traditional individual visit. Often group participants come from different backgrounds and with different perspectives. This can present challenges to creating common goals and achieving working frameworks. Groups need good facilitation to help participants feel engaged and connected to one another. We will be sharing some facilitation basic skills to help a diverse group flourish.
“Hormesis is a term used by toxicologists to refer to a biphasic dose response to an environmental agent characterized by a low dose stimulation or beneficial effect and a high dose inhibitory or toxic effect.”More is not always better. If a little bit of whatever elixir you have made up helps your patients, more should work better except that it isn’t. Dose matters and effects may be dramatically different at high dose than low dose. What is the optimum dose of the various herbs, vitamins and foods? Dr. Jacob Schor will review the current science as it relates to optimal dosing because from chocolate to fish oil, dose does matter.
