Live from the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine Annual Conference 2023

Cultivating Equity in Integrative Medicine

On the final day of the 2023 Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) Annual Conference in San Diego, Calif., members of the AIHM Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Committee discussed what health equity looks like in an integrative medicine practice. In their presentation, the committee members stressed the importance of cultural appreciation, spiritual presence, cultural humility, and embodiment to move integrative medicine toward health equity.

“The BIPOC Committee has an understanding that all of the work that we do, we feel it in our bodies,” said Yvette Miller, MD, ABIHM, Executive Medical Officer for the Donor and Client Support Center (DCSC) in Charlotte, NC, and Co-Chair of BIPOC Committee. In this country, medical providers are encouraged to get out of their bodies and think their way through treating a patient, but, Miller said, “true medicine and healing comes from the heart and the body.”

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