News
Osher Collaborative 2017 Annual Meeting
(Boston, MA)
Core leaders of the Osher Collaborative recently gathered in Boston, MA, hosted by the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, for the 2017 Annual Meeting.
Leadership in New Era of Healthcare, by Susan Carter
TEDxNashville
How can we improve patient outcomes in healthcare environments and also be more fulfilled as healthcare professionals? Watch Susan Carter’s TEDxNashville talk to learn her simple yet profound answer to this important question.
How “Rat Yoga” Is Unraveling the Mystery of Back Pain
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Clinical and Research News recently published a video and accompanying article highlighting Dr. Helene Langevin’s research on the effects of stretching on back pain.
Osher Collaborative Forum: Outlooks, Opinions & Opportunities
Editorial Column in JACM
The Osher Collaborative is pleased to announce that a Review Board has been selected for the new editorial column “Osher Collaborative Forum: Outlooks, Opinions & Opportunities” in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM).
Announcing the Endowment of the Osher Collaborative Coordinating Center
The Bernard Osher Foundation has generously granted the UCSF Osher Center a $5.5 million endowment for the Coordinating Center of the Osher Collaborative for Integrative Medicine. The gift provides permanent support for the Coordinating Center to facilitate collaborative initiatives among the six Osher Centers for Integrative Medicine around the world.
NAMI Radio Hour Guest: Linda Manning of the Vanderbilt Osher Center
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Linda Manning, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and currently serves as Interim Director at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt. As a clinical psychologist she provides mind-body therapy and integrative health consultations for adults who are struggling with chronic illness, trauma, and emotional and physical pain.
Clinical study of smartphone intervention for obesity
First to find major reduction in craving-related eating
Congratulations to the UCSF Osher Center and collaborators, who recently published their findings in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, showing that using an app-based clinical intervention can help overweight and obese individuals break the cycle of craving-related eating.
Nashville Medical News Features Vanderbilt Osher Center
"The Osher Center: Healing Mind, Body & Spirit"
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Once considered “alternative” in American healthcare, integrative medicine is now a widely respected, evidence-based option for pain management, and The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt is leading the way. Founded in 2007, the Nashville clinic is one of six Osher Centers worldwide dedicated to healing the mind, body and spirit.
UCSF Osher Center Receives PCORI Grant for Study with Cancer Patients
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
A research team from the
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine has been approved
for a $2,780,075 funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes
Research Institute (PCORI) to study Nonpharmacologic
Approaches to Relieve Pain and Symptom Distress among Diverse
Hospitalized Cancer Patients. Dr. Maria
Chao, the Associate Director of Research and Associate
Director for Health Equity and Diversity at the UCSF Osher
Center, will lead the research.
Harvard Osher Director Quoted in “Finding Alternatives to Opioids” Article
NOVA Next, PBS
“Most cases of chronic pain are complex. The reaction of the central nervous system can amplify and perpetuate the pain,” says Dr. Helene Langevin, director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston.
UCSF Osher Center Funds RAP Grants for Dementia and Cancer
UCSF’s Resource Allocation Program (RAP) provides intramural research funding opportunities for the UCSF campus, making application for intramural research funding efficient and accessible for all faculty and non-faculty applicants. The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is sponsoring two of these grants, for integrative medicine research in the fields of cancer and dementia.
Integrative medicine seeks to mend the mind-body split
KALW Local Public Radio - Podcast
KALW Radio spoke with Dr. Sudha Prathikanti, who founded the Integrative Psychiatry program and Ayurveda consultation service at the UCSF Osher Center.
Vanderbilt Osher Center to study standards for mindfulness training
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As mindfulness grows in popularity as a treatment option for conditions ranging from anxiety to chronic pain, experts in integrative medicine at Vanderbilt are doing research to better quantify its effectiveness and setting standards for how it is administered.
New Awardees for Osher Research Pilot Grants
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The Harvard Osher Center is pleased to announce its most recent cohort of Osher Research Pilot Awardees, benefiting from a total of $100,000 pilot funding between them:
Osher Center Directors Quoted in Article: ‘What Is Alternative Medicine?’
U.S. News & World Report
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Over 30 percent of Americans use some form of non-conventional medicine, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. If you’ve ever stretched out on a yoga mat or popped a probiotic, you may be part of the growing segment of the U.S. population that uses non-conventional therapies to treat medical problems.
Is Inflammation the Key to Aging?
Huffington Post
By: Deepak Chopra, MD, William C Bushell, PhD, Ryan Castle, David Vago, PhD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.
Call for Applications
Training in Research in Integrative Medicine T-32 Fellowship Program
The UCSF Osher Center’s Training in Research in Integrative Medicine (TRIM) is a research fellowship program funded by a T-32 Training Grant from NIH/NCCIH. They are requesting new applications for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowship positions to begin July 2018*.
Waking Up to an Invisible Epidemic
Huffington Post
By: Deepak Chopra, MD, William C Bushell, PhD, Ryan Castle, David Vago, PhD, Peder S. Olofsson, MD, PhD, Mark Lambert
Announcing Osher Collaborative Editorial Column in JACM
Accepting Editor and Review Board Submissions
Osher Collaborative is pleased to announce a new quarterly editorial column beginning 2018 in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM).
Dr. Lisbeth Berrueta Receives Best Paper Award
Earlier this month, Dr. Lisbeth Berrueta, Research Associate and laboratory manager for the Osher Center’s Connective Tissue Lab received the Musculoskeletal Research Center’s $500 Best Paper Award from Dr. Nancy Shadick, a co-chair of the BRI Musculoskeletal Research Center.