April 2014 John Weeks Integrator Round-Up: Resources

John Weeks

April 14, 2014

ACCAHC, a consortium of integrative health and medicine educators, posts free presentations, posters, papers, newsletters from 2005 presentThe Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Care (ACCAHC) has created a new set of Useful Resources that can be freely accessed by the

ACCAHC, a consortium of integrative health and medicine educators, posts free presentations, posters, papers, newsletters from 2005-present

The Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Care (ACCAHC) has created a new set of Useful Resources that can be freely accessed by the community. Included is some of the work-product of this interprofessional academic group, founded in 2014, with which I am involved. Included are 11 papers, 4 posters and 25 presentations, plus various media links, podcasts, and meeting materials for past Biennial Meetings. ACCAHC’s core membership includes 17 national organizations and nearly two dozen individual colleges and universities linked to the licensed integrative health and medicine fields. The resources include significant work in interprofessional care, integration competencies, national policy, and promotion of whole practice/system research as a priority in research funding.

Comment: Renee Clugston did the work of putting these up. For me, this effort was a remarkable review of work engaged since the founding of ACCAHC, under the direction of Pamela Snider, ND, in 2004. Take a look. We hope it is useful to some of you.

Naturopathic Doctor News & Reviews releases free, online directory of 9 years of publications

The Naturopathic Doctor News and Reviews (NDNR) has announced the release of the Library, a free online directory of 9 years of back-issues in an e-version format. This clinician-focused monthly includes among its contributors the presidents of the accredited naturopathic universities, naturopathic associations, and leaders in a diverse range of naturopathic modalities. The Library can be accessed on any web-enabled device, such as a smartphone, tablet, PC, or laptop.  E-version readers can perform keyword searches within individual articles, print, and access additional content found only on NDNR.

Comment: The NDNR, originally a labor of love for its founders, quickly lived up to its present self-description on its site: "Starting in 2005, NDNR is the leading clinical information resource for naturopathic physicians in North America. It serves as a dynamic voice for the advancement of naturopathic medicine by informing and educating physicians in the recent developments of the practice of natural medicine. NDNR includes current protocols, practice management, business development, marketing, clinical research, news and more."

ACCAHC's 2nd edition of heralded text on integrative health disciplines in team care era available in e-versions, books, and as free PDF

An integrative academic consortium has posted a release on the publication of the 2nd edition and e-version of its heralded Clinician's and Educators' Desk Reference on the Licensed Complementary and Alternative Healthcare Professions. The text, developed by the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC) in partnership with leading national organizations for the disciplines covered, was developed in the context of the mode toward interprofessionalism and team care. "Quality team care rests on quality information," notes Elizabeth Goldblatt, PhD, MPA/HA, the book's lead author, a member of the Institute of Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, and ACCAHC's chair. She adds: "We undertook this project to provide this platform to expand the kinds of integrative, team-based practice that increasing numbers of patients are not only choosing, but demanding." The book is available in multiple formats: as paperback, as a free downloadable

pdf, as an iBook (in the iTunes Store) for the Kindle, and as an ePub file. Read a recent review of the CEDR here.  For comments from educators from over a dozen disciplines on the CEDR, please click here.

Comment: It is remarkable how guaranteed the response of even those imbedded for decades in this movement are to this text, with which I have been involved and am a co-author: I was surprised by what I didn't know - even about my own profession. My own fancy with this text is that all of the fields would realize that this is a book - because of its origin in partnership - in which every field can have say over their profession's portrait as it is encountered by others. Would it not be a good thing to given all health professions students a more elevated view than them seeing each field through the lens of a single author's biases.
About the Author:

John Weeks

John Weeks

John Weeks is a writer, speaker, chronicler and organizer with 32 years of experience in the movement for integrative health and medicine. the long-time founder/editor of The Integrator Blog News & Reports, a primary connective terrain for the diverse stakeholders and professions in the field and was invited in May 2016 to serve as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Besides his Integrative Practitioner column, he presently writes for Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, the Huffington Post and elsewhere.

He increasingly enjoys teaching and mentoring. He has keynoted, led plenary sessions, breakouts, and offered guest lectures for dozens of organizations ranging from the Bastyr University to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the UCLA School of Medicine to the Institute for Health and Productivity Management, the AANP and AIHM to the American Hospital Association. He has consulted with insurers, employers, professional organizations, universities and government agencies at all levels.

As an organizer, Weeks convened the Integrative Medicine Industry Leadership Summits (2000-2002), directed the National Education Dialogue to Advance Integrated Care (2004-2006), fund-raised the start-up of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (2002), and co-founded the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health, which he directed 2007-2015. In 2014, three consortia and others combined to grant him a Lifetime Achievement Living Tribute Award. Four academic institutions have granted Weeks honorary doctorates for his work. Seattle-based, he considers himself a particularly lucky soul to have worked remotely while living with his spouse Jeana Kimball, ND, MPH, and their children in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Puerto Rico for 6 of the last 15 years.

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