The American Nutraceutical Association’s
Nutraceuticals and Medicine Spring 2012 Continuing Medical Education Conference - The Role of Diet, Nutraceuticals, Integrative Medicine, and Nutrition in Disease Management and Prevention
Saturday, April 14, 2012 Phoenix, Arizona - SHERATON DOWNTOWN HOTEL.
A multi-disciplinary continuing education program for physicians, nurses, registered dieticians, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.
Jointly Sponsored by the Foundation for Care Management and the American Nutraceutical Association
Speakers, Topics, and Learning Objectives
---------------------------------- The Role of Nutrition in Ovarian Cancer
Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D., is Director of the Congressionally-mandated Center for Research on Minority Health and Professor of Health Disparities Research & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Over three decades, Dr. Jones has trained over 100 students and/or fellows in his laboratory. He has also published over 120 scientific articles ranging from hormonal carcinogenesis to health policy. In 1989, he edited one of the few comprehensive textbooks on health disparities entitled "Minorities & Cancer." Since 1980, Dr. Jones has received over $20,000,000 in direct cost research funding in which he served or presently serves the Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI. Dr. Jones current research covers a number of areas, but generally can be placed into three areas, Nutritional Intervention, Gene-Environment Interaction and Health Outcomes.
Learning objectives: Learn how a diet high in fiber and lower in fat can be an effect way of aiding ovarian cancer patients.
The participants will also learn about the role of nutrition counseling in effectively implementing a nutrition program in an integrative/complementary medicine practice.
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Soyfoods and Health: Research Updates and Implications for Clinical Practice
Mark Messina, PhD, MS, President, Nutrition Matters, Inc. In this position, Dr. Messina has chaired all nine international symposia on the role of soy in preventing and treating chronic disease. During his career, Dr. Messina has given more than 500 presentations to prestigious scientific and medical groups in the United States and 43 countries.
Dr. Messina also serves as Executive Director, Soy Nutrition Institute. The Soy Nutrition Institute is a science-based organization dedicated to promoting an accurate understanding of the impact of consuming soyfoods, soy oil and other soybean components on human health. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA..
Learning objectives: Determine whether soyfoods are appropriate for breast cancer patients.
Assess the utility of soyfoods to serve as alternatives to hormone therapy for conditions and diseases associated with menopause including osteoporosis, heart disease and hot flashes.
Identify whether soyfoods are contraindicated for some subpopulations.
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The Nutrition Prescription: A presentation on the current state of American nutrition, at-risk populations regarding macro and micronutrients, and the role of nutrition in the prevention and management of many chronic disorders.
Tieraona Low Dog, MD. Dr. Low Dog’s extensive career in studying natural medicine began more than twenty-five years ago. She studied midwifery, massage therapy, and was a highly respected herbalist, serving as President of the American Herbalists Guild and running a teaching clinic in Albuquerque, before going on to receive her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Tieraona opened and ran a successful integrative medical clinic in Albuquerque, NM before moving to Tucson, AZ to join the faculty of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She currently serves as the Director of the Fellowship.?In addition to her work as a clinician and educator, Dr. Low Dog has been involved in national health policy and regulatory issues for more than a decade. In 2000, she was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She and served as a member of the Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Dr. Low Dog has served as the elected Chair of the United States Pharmacopeia Dietary Supplements and Botanicals Expert Committee since 2000. Her many honors of distinction include the Martina de la Cruz medal for her work with indigenous medicines (1998), Time magazine’s “Innovator in Complementary and Alternative Medicine” (2001), the Burt Kallman Scientific Award (2007) and NPR’s People’s Pharmacy award (2007).
Learning Objectives:
Identify key components of the Mediterranean Diet.
Discuss the evidence for recommending the Mediterranean diet for patients at risk for cardiovascular disease.
Describe the evidence for using the glycemic index/load in patients at risk for diabetes.
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Challenges in the Botanical Dietary Supplement Market: (1) Miscommunications on Herb-Drug Interactions and (2) Concerns about Herb Quality
Mark Blumenthal
Mark Blumenthal is the Founder and Executive Director of the American Botanical Council (ABC); an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to disseminating accurate, reliable, and responsible information on herbs and medicinal plants. He is the Editor/Publisher of HerbalGram, an international, peer-reviewed quarterly journal, the contents of which reflect the educational goals of ABC. For six years he was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy, teaching a course on herbal products in today’s pharmacy. Mark has served as Co-Founder and former Vice-President of the Herb Research Foundation (HRF) and President of the Herb Trade Association, the former organization that represented the interest of the herb industry in the 1970’s. He was also a founding board member of the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA). Recently, his name appeared with some of the most prestigious names in the natural health movement when he was awarded Natural Health Magazine’s Hall of Fame Award for “...opening America’s eyes to the healing powers of herbs”.
Learning Objections:
1. Understand more clearly some of the common myths and misconceptions related to herb-drug interactions as they might occur with the use of herb-based dietary supplements.
2. Describe the problems and challenges related to specific accidentally or intentionally adulterated herbal ingredients used in dietary supplements, and some of the information being disseminated by the primary educational program dealing with adulteration.
3. Discuss the role of solvents in the production of botanical extracts used in foods, food flavorings, herbal dietary supplements, cosmetics and nonprescription drugs, and some of the quality control challenges being faced by industry in detecting their presence.
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