September 2003

Joint conference planned on integrative healthcare model

Practicing physicians and chiropractors currently working in successful integrative models will speak in a joint conference entitled “A Conference in Chiropractic and Allopathic Integration” at Beth Israel Medical Center in November.

The conference is presented in a collaboration between Beth Israel medical Center’s Continuum for Health and Healing and New York Chiropractic College, Nov. 7-9. During the conference, presenters will share scientific information that will advance interdisciplinary healthcare collaboration.

Dr. Frank Nicchi, president of the New York Chiropractic College, said of the conference, “I support and encourage these kinds of discussions. They tend to promote dialogue and creatively explore optimal means for implementing effective integrative healthcare models.”

The conference format encourages the dissemination of valuable information from practicing physicians and chiropractors currently working in successful integrative models. Areas of healthcare collaboration to be covered at the conference will include:

• Chiropractic services in the emergency room,

• Collaborative geriatric care in a community hospital,

• Internal medicine and chiropractic care in a holistic health center,

• Chiropractors as part of the neurosurgical team,

• Chiropractic care in a military hospital, and

• Medical and chiropractic collaboration in an ambulatory orthopedic facility.

The conference will explore current interdisciplinary interactions and key aspects of doctor-patient encounters. Discussion will include current and future research in the integrative field, patient selection, health-data collection, diagnostic development, therapeutic selection and intervention, interdisciplinary communication and utilization of standard outcomes assessment methods.

Doctors serving as keynote speakers will include Woodson C. Merrell, MD, executive director of Beth Israel’s Continuum Center for Health and Healing; Frank J. Nicchi, DC, MS, president, New York Chiropractic College; David M. Eisenberg, MD, director of Harvard Medical School’s Osher Institute; William C. Meeker, DC, MPH, director of the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research; Anthony L. Rosner, PhD, director of the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research; and Michael H. Cohen, JD, director of Harvard Medical School’s Osher Institute’s Legal Programs.

For more information contact Dr. Thomas R. Ventimiglia at 800-434-3955 ext. 121, tventimig@nycc.edu or from Dr. Karen Erickson at 646-935-2230, kerickson@chpr.org.

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