Archive for June, 2008

Schedule and Speakers for “Getting Well with Food and Nutrition”

Wed-Thursday

Oct 1-2

8 - 5

 

Lead-In Workshop:

 

“Metal Toxicity and the Impact on Human Health; Remedies and Rationale”

Lead-In Workshop:

In partnership with

The International Hyperbarics Association:

“Hyperbaric Oxygen”

 

 

 

Friday-Saturday

Oct 3-4

8 - 5

Integrative Office Staff Training Program

 

 

 

Friday

Oct 3

8:00

Paul Saunders, PhD, ND “Food and Nutrition; An Introduction”

 

9:00

Mark Hyman, MD: “Food as Healer, Food as Slayer; The Past, Present, and Future of Food and Humans”

 

10:15

Exhibitor Break with Refreshments

 

10:45

 

Efrain Olszewer, CMP “How to modulate Neuropeptides and neurotransmitters with food and food supplements as a therapy for obesity”

 

 

11:30

Wayne Feister, DO, and Bessie Jo Tillman, MD: “The Importance of Local Food: Weston Price Society”

 

12:30

Lunch: Sylvie Beljanski, President of Natural Source International Ltd “Nutritional Approach to Counteract Environmental Toxins”

 

2:00

Ellie Campbell, DO : “Vitamin D: Not just for Osteoporosis Any More”

 

3:00

 

Stephen Holt, MD: “Natural Ways to Digestive Health”

 

 

3:45

Exhibitor Break with refreshments

 

4:30

Pearls and Nuggets with Al Augustine legal update

 

6:30

Riverboat Cruise

 

 

Saturday

Oct 4

8:00

 

Mark Houston, MD: “Mercury and Cardiovascular Disease”

 

 

9:15

 

Tanya Edwards MD: “Diet and Inflammation”

 

 

10:30

Exhibitor Break with refreshments

 

11:15

Doug Graham DC “The Art, Science and Philosophy of Sports Nutrition”

 

12:30

Lunch and Exhibitor Desert : Richard Rossiter “Step out of Pain in the Rossiter Way”

 

2:30

Ritchie Shoemaker MD: “When Panacea Faces off With Hygiea”

 

3:30

William Shaw, PhD “Ceasefire needed in war against Cholesterol?”

 

4:30

 

Tom Malterre, MS: “Gluten Sensitivity and Celiac Disease- Prevalence is Rising and Recommendations are Failing”

 

 

5:30

Scientific and Membership Meeting

 

 

Sunday

Oct 5

8:30

“Mindful Eating” Roundtable and breakfast buffet

 

9:30

Rene Blaha MD “The Art of Medicine; Communicating with the Body”

 

 

10:15

Therapeutic Diet Roundtable

 

 

12:00

Lunch (on your own)

 

 

2:00

Optional Follow Up Workshop “Step out of Pain in the Rossiter Way”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule and Speakers for “Metal Toxicology and the Impact on Human Health”

Metal Toxicity and the Impact on Human Health, Remedies and Rationale

Presented by the

International College of Integrative Medicine

Sheraton Station Square, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

7:45-8:00                   Welcome and introduction                                      

8:00-10:00                 Necessity of Paying Attention to Toxic Metals - News Reports – Scientific Reports - Where these toxic metals come from - How do they cause problems for the human - How are they identified in individual patients

                                    David Quig, PhD, St Charles, IL

http://www.yourmedicaldetective.com/public/198.cfm

10:00-10:30   Nutrition Break                                                                                 

10:30-11:30               Lifelong Consequences of Early Low to Moderate Exposure to Lead: Neuroanatomical and Social Behavioral Outcomes

Kim Dietrich, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Center for Environmental Health, Cincinnati, OH

http://www.eh.uc.edu/dir_individual_details.asp?qcontactid=52

11:30-12:30  

Mercury and Manganese -Otherr metals involved in intelligence disruption?

                                    Michael Aschner. PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN

http://www1.wfubmc.edu/PhysPharm/adjunctfaculty/Aschner.htm                                              

12:30-1:30     Lunch

 

1:30-2:30                   History of Chelating Agents

                                    EDTA – DMPS – DMSA

                                    John Trowbridge, MD, Life Celebrating Health, Humble, Texas

http://www.arthritistrust.org/Directors/Trowbridge.htm     

 

2:30-3:30                   Introduction to Chelating Agents from a Chemistry Point of View

                                    How and why they work

Ted Rozema, MD, BioGenesis Wellness/Medical Center, Landrum, SC

http://icimed.com/DR_CV/RozemaCV_7-07.pdf

 3:30-4:00      Nutrition Break

 4:00-5:00                  Autism: Thimerosal, DMPS & DMSA

Vasken Aposhian,PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

http://bmcb.biology.arizona.edu/aposhian.html

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/4/2part2/58

 

 5:00-6:00                  Specific chelators

                                    EDTA Chemistry and Mechanism of Action

EDTA Toxicity – how to protect the patient

Ted Rozema, MD, BioGenesis Wellness/Medical Center, Landrum, SC

 

 

Thursday, October 2, 2008

8:00-8:45                   DMPS – DMSA Toxicity – how to Protect the Patient

                                    David Quig, PhD, , St Charles, IL

 

8:45-10:15                 Rationale and Therapeutic Use of DMSA, DMPS, D-Penicillamine and CaNa2EDTA in Heavy Metal Intoxication and Exposure: Implications for Children and Adults.

Jeff Bradstreet,MD, International Child Development Resource Center, Melbourne, FL

http://www.icdrc.org/Bradstreet.html

10:15-10:45   Nutrition Break         

10:45-11:45               Protocol for Clinical use of both Mg2NaEDTA and CaNa2EDTA

Ted Rozema, MD, BioGenesis Wellness/Medical Center, Landrum, SC

 

11:45-12:30            Supporting Evidence for Mg2NaEDTA use in Degenerative and Vascular Disease

                                 Terry Chappell, MD, Celebration of Health Association, Bluffton, OH

http://www.healthcelebration.com/

                                   

12:30-1:30     Lunch

 

1:30-2:30                   Atherosclerosis/Angiogenesis – Pathophysiology of Atherosclerotic Disease

                                    Stephen Olmstead, MD - Cardiologist

                                                           

2:30-3:30                   Mitochondrial Pathophysiology, Implication of Toxic Metals,

Restoration of Oxidative Function

                                    Efrain Olszewer, MD – Clinical Cardiologist, Sao Paulo, Brazil

http://www.medicineonearth.com/display.php?id=661    

3:30-4:00       Nutrition Break                     

4:00-5:00                   Chemistry and Creation of new Chelating Agents – From the Laboratory to the Human

                                    Swaran Flora MD, Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, India

                                    http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/322/1/108

 

5:00-6:00                   Panel Discussion of Presenters with Audience Participation

Ask those questions you always wanted to, but did not have the experts to give you the proper answers.