27th Annual Summer Seminars: Mind/Body Medicine: Components, Research, Techniques and Applications with an Emphasis on the Relaxation Response

Additional Information

Friday, July 15, 2016
4:00-4:30 PM	Registration
4:30-6:30 PM	Mind/Body Integrative Medicine: The Neurobiology of Stress and Relaxation and its Implications: The relaxation response – history, scientific basis including the recently published genetic findings as well as its multiple clinical applications to stress-related disorders; integrative medicine hypotheses; the physiology and measurement of stress; stress and performance; stress and pain; an evolutionary approach to understanding stress based on attachment security; stress, metabolic syndrome and non-communicable diseases; allostasis and allostatic loading; mitochondrial reserve capacity and allostasis. Group Discussion: Questions and Answers. Group Simulation Experience One: The Relaxation Response.
Saturday, July 16, 2016
8:00 AM-10:15 AM	Neural mechanisms of resilience; stress buffering and health strengthening; the mind/body integrative medicine equation; mitochondrial resilience; evolutionary resilience; adverse childhood events and illness; epidemiology of stress, resilience and illness; the Stress Management and Resilience Training program; relaxation response, mindfulness, meditation and attachment, cognitive behavioral approach, social support and pro-social behavior, positive psychology, spiritual connectedness.
10:15-10:30 AM	Continental Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 PM	PTSD; integrative medicine and neuroimmunology; psychosomatic illnesses, psychiatric illnesses. Group Discussion: Questions and Answers.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
8:00-10:15 AM	Importance of stress related chronic non-communicable diseases; toxic stress in childhood; PTSD and intergenerational effects; the impact of caregiver stress and burnout and what can be done to manage this; post-traumatic growth; turning a vicious cycle into a virtuous one; quality care, access and cost (IOM report) the electronic medical record, meaningful use and the use of metrics; Campbell’s Law; ACAs and ACOs and “Continuously Learning Healthcare”; the importance of health promotion and illness prevention; the importance of mind/body integrative medicine and the research (epigenetics, transcriptomics, microbiomics, connectomics, neuroimaging, clinical trials, epidemiology) to back it up done at Benson-Henry Institute and elsewhere.
10:15-10:30 AM	Continental Coffee Break
10:30 AM-12:30 PM	Review of mind/body integrative treatments; integrated systems whole person care—a new medical philosophy; implications for modern medicine. Group Discussion: Questions and Answers.
12:30 PM	Adjourn

Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Psychiatry Foundation, Inc./Contact Hours: 10

Accreditation:

Physicians This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of pmiCME and The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. pmiCME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION:
Weekend Seminar: pmiCME designates the live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ claimed by physicians attending live events certified and organized in the United States for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ can be claimed through the agreement on mutual recognition of credits between UEMS and AMA, considered as being equal to the European Continuous Medical Education Credits(ECMEC©) granted by the UEMS. One AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ is equivalent to one (1) hour of European EACCME Credit (ECMEC©), therefore up to 15 ECMEC© Credits are available. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Psychologists The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Counselors The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5689. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Social Workers For information on the status of the application to the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, please call 617-754-1265 or email: sjruiz@bidmc.harvard.edu.

This program meet the specifications for the Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR)