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...Medical School (HMS) and the CIA (née the Culinary Institute of America) were married in Napa Valley over the course of a four-day-long celebration, from April 10 to April 13. Ceremonies were officiated at the CIA’s Greystone Campus by the Bernard P. Osher Associate Professor of Medicine, Dr. David M. Eisenberg; the Vice President of the CIA at Greystone, Mark Erikson; and the CIA’s Executive Director for Strategic Initiatives, Greg Drescher. They are the proud parents of Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives, an educational and interactive conference between physicians and culinary...
...findings come at the end of an eventful year for massage-therapy research. In March, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine published a study finding that Swedish massage, shiatsu foot massage, and acupuncture helped reduce pain and depression in postoperative cancer patients. An October 2007 pilot study by the Mayo Clinic showed that massage significantly reduced pain levels in patients recovering from heart surgery, prompting the internationally renowned treatment center to bring a full-time massage therapist onboard. That same month, the American Massage Therapy Association published a survey...
...acupuncture in 40 states. But what Kaptchuk casually fails to mention is his current status as a leading researcher for HMS’ frontier Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medicine—a division that received a $10 million grant last spring from the Bernard Osher Foundation to further scientific research into the efficacy of non-traditional, integrative medicine...
...it’s not hard to see why. Kaptchuk is the bearer of two wordy titles: Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School’s Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Director of Complementary Specialties at the one-month-old Harvard Osher Institute. He also serves on the National Institute of Health’s National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Between his outfit, office and job, Kaptchuk makes for an interesting, if confusing, mix of academia and bohemia...
...phenomenon that results in people feeling healthier simply because they believe in the medicine they are using—and has published a number of articles on the subject. Kaptchuk continues to do research on the placebo effect, in addition to speaking, attending seminars and helping to run the Osher Foundation...