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2017 Sessions and Speakers

 

The Hormone Connection: How Hormones Impact Food Sensitivity™

Eric Dorninger, ND, LAc
Friday, November 3rd / 8:30am – 10:00am


This informative 1.5-hour seminar is designed to educate the healthcare professional in understanding how hormones can have a dramatic impact on our immunological tolerance to food proteins. The latest literature on the mechanisms and leading theories on how tolerance for food proteins can include a complex interplay involving the endocrine system and intestinal immune reactivity will be presented. A review of human physiology will be followed by laboratory findings, applications, differential diagnoses, and clinical applications (including dietary, lifestyle, and nutritional support) from an evidence-based approach/model, and when to refer for further consultation and/or evaluation. Important clinical jewels and insights will also be discussed.

About Dr. Eric Dorninger

Dr. 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 Population

Lyn Patrick, ND
Friday November 3rd / 10:30am – 12:00pm


Eating disorders are rampant in both men and women in North America. As clinicians, being able to spot bulimia nervosa is harder than anorexia, but equally important as bulimia has serious and life-threatening consequences. Understanding the signs and symptoms of the spectrum of eating disorders, as well as the serious pathologies and risks, is important for all family practice clinicians. Having worked in an inpatient center for females with eating disorders, Dr. Patrick has learned what to suspect in a patient with a current eating disorder as well as crucial interventions and necessary treatment approaches for both acute and longterm recovery.


Making the Invisible – Visible: How to Assess and Manage the Unseen Epidemic of Fatty Liver Disease

Lyn Patrick, ND
Friday November 3rd / 1:00pm – 2:30pm

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is currently in epidemic in the United States and Canada: 1 in 4 North Americans now has the disease. Approximately 16 million people in the US will have the disease progress and be at risk of cirrhosis, potential liver failure and hepatocellular cancer. While advanced NAFLD will overtake hepatitis C as the leading cause of liver transplants a short 3 years from now, the understanding of the causes of NAFLD as simply the hepatic manifestation of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance are still out of the reach of most clinicians. Further still out of reach are solutions. While pharma is busy trying to capture a potential 8 billion dollar a year market, the solutions to NAFLD and NASH are within reach of savvy naturopathic physicians and functional medicine clinicians. Dr. Patrick started treating NAFLD as a complication of HIV/AIDS medications in the late 90s. She then continued to research causation and treatment as a manifestation of chronic hepatitis C and then finally, as it occurs in the American public today, resulting from environmental toxicant and dietary exposure. There is clear evidence that NAFLD results from treatable insulin resistance and altered adipocytokine production. This lecture will review the causes and complications of NAFLD as well as the necessary diagnostic testing and how to actually screen patients using low-cost, easily available leptin and adiponectin metabolomics testing. And finally, a detailed, case-based review of management and treatment of a tsunami of a disease.

About Dr. Lyn Patrick

Lyn 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
Friday, November 3rd / 3:00pm – 4:00pm


No one questions that water intake and adequate hydration are essential for healthy living. We all guide our patients on increasing water intake to reach optimal hydration and expound on how it helps cushion joints and discs, decrease blood viscosity, flush the kidneys and aid peristalsis, but are we addressing water quality? Water quality is the United States is a significant source of toxicant exposure for your patients. Drinking water has become the number one source of arsenic exposure for your patients and this is just one of the many common chemicals found in tap water.

About Dr. Tina Beaudoin

Dr. 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 Pearls

Jeff Geller, MD
Friday, November 3rd / 4:00pm – 5:30pm

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.

About Dr. Jeff Geller

Jeffrey 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-Esteem

Amy Rothenberg, ND
Saturday, November 4th / 8:30am -10:00am


There are many ways low self esteem manifests in our patients: decreased bonding within families, poor school performance, challenges at home or at work, hypersensitivity, hypervigilence, lack of assertiveness, passive aggressive tendiencies, over and underachieving, OCD, addictive behaviors, difficulties with friendships, failed relationships, inability to act with self-agency and all manner of anxiety and depression. Homeopathic remedies offer a precise effective tool to use with your down-on-themselves patients.  Dr Rothenberg will help delineate and differentiate among the six most common remedies clinically relevant for low self-esteem patients.

About Dr. Amy Rothenberg

Dr. 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 Right

Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO
Saturday, November 4th / 10:00am – 11:00am

“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.

About Dr. Jacob Schor

Dr. 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:

  • President – Colorado Association of Naturopathic Physicians (current board member)
  • President and board member- the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians
  • Associate editor – the Natural Medicine Journal.
  • Editorial boards – Vital Link, NDNR, and IMCJ.
  • AANP- board member and Chair of Conference committee multiple years.
  • The Vis Award – AANP 2008

Stealth Infections: Gaining Ground

Lori DiBacco, ND
Saturday, November 4th / 11:30am – 12:30pm


This talk aims to highlight an area gaining recognition in chronic and infectious disease circles, that of “stealth” or latent infections.  These infections are often overlooked in the treatment of our patients and knowledge thereof may prove instrumental in their recovery.The names of these stealth infections are numerous.  I focus on Mycoplasma pneumonia, Chlamydia pneumonia, Epstein-Barr virus, Cytomegalovirus, Human Herpes Virus 6.  I present basic concepts of their microbiology and various “states.”  Then I discuss their varied presentations, impacts on, and ways of evading the immune system.  Methods for testing and verifying these infections will be discussed.  We will see their role in creating or contributing to the etiology of chronic disease i.e. Autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis or thyroiditis, Fibromyalgia, or Lyme Disease, among others.  As part of my research, I hope to present results from a survey of practitioners treating these conditions and their preferred treatment strategies. Treatment plans in the context of the Naturopathic Therapeutic order will also be presented.

About Dr. Lori DiBacco

Dr. 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 Health

Michelle J Pouliot, ND
Saturday, November 4th / 1:30pm – 3:00pm


Women’s reproductive and sexual health begins to change in their 40’s as their hormone patterns shift approaching menopause. This presentation will address the physical changes to the genital urinary tract, vulvovaginal environment and peri-menopausal/menopausal symptoms that affect women’s sexual vitality. Botanicals, nutrients, hormonal  and pelvic physical therapies will be discussed. Popular media and medical convention portray the sexual changes in mid-life women and men as sexual dysfunction. Instead, I invite participants to regard these natural life transitions as a new erotic frontier.

About Dr. Michelle Pouliot

Michelle 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 Microbe

Julia Greenspan, ND
Saturday, November 4th / 3:30pm – 5:00pm


When treating patients with chronic disease it’s commonly understood that physical manifestations of illness build-up over time due to toxins, infections, lifestyle choices with poor self-care, and stress. These all have an impact on neuroplasticity. However Lyme disease is unique in the complexity of the microbe, how it is perceived in the world, and how it can impact the body/mind by assisting in releasing trauma with waking up the energy body to ones awareness. This discussion will address the correlation of a patient with trauma in their history with a distorted belief (conscious but more likely unconscious) leading to distorted biological programs which thus changes the function of tissues. These distortions create weakness in energetic body which then impacts ones experience of symptoms. Those with perceived or significant trauma have an amazing opportunity to heal the past, but can have a much more difficult prognosis if they are unable to address it.  As clinicians with very open minded field of medicine we are the perfect fit to address this with the patient. It can also elevate them to a whole other level of self understanding and spiritual understanding. Common forms of treatment will also be discussed, both naturopathic and allopathic to assist in balancing mood, sleep patterns, and the infection. The Shamanic perspective on healing, talk therapy modalities, Microbioenergetics which incorporates Biomagnetic Pair therapy and New Germanic Medicine will be briefly discussed as methods to clear trauma.

About Dr. Julia Greenspan

Dr. 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.

 

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