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ANA Fall CME Conference to be held October 24, 2009 at the Marriott Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee
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The American Nutraceutical's Fall 2009 Continuing Medical Education Conference - October 24, 2009, Memphis, TN, Marriott Hotel
" The Role of Diet, Nutrition and Nutraceuticals in the Prevention and Management of Disease"
Speakers and Topics:
“Early Exposure to Dietary Factors Can Affect Development and Have Long-term Health Consequences”
Speaker: Tom Badger, PhD Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology/Biochemistry,University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He is the Director of the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center.
In his talk, Dr. Badger will present and talk on early (during infancy) diet and nutritional effects on development and discuss the potential implications of the preliminary findings from our studies for long health consequences. He will show data from his clinical studies in which infants are fed breast milk, milk-based formula or soy-based formula and how their body composition differs as they grow and how their brain function and development differs with their diet. Dr. Badger will also discuss studies in school age children and how school breakfast may affect their ability to learn and think. During his talk Dr. Badger will show body composition data (body fat, protein, water, bone and muscle) from children fed different diets and discuss how this related to obesity later in life. He will also show data from children and animals on how the diet of pregnant mothers alters body composition of the offspring and discuss new studies related to maternal programming of fetal development and metabolism in women and children that predisposes them to obesity later in life.
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"The Effects of Phytoestrogens and Estrogens on Cognitive Function"
Speaker: Pauline Maki, PhD - Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago,Department of Psychiatry Center for Cognitive Medicine
Dr. Maki directs a comprehensive program of research on hormonal factors that influence cognitive functioning and mood in women. Her primary focus has been the effects of sex steroid hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone on cognition and brain function. Her research program comprises a series of observational studies and clinical intervention trials. She uses neuropsychological and neuroimaging tools (i.e., positron emission tomography and structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging) to study estrogen therapy, botanical treatments for menopausal symptoms, testosterone supplementation, menstrual cycle phase, hormone suppression, and selective estrogen receptor modulators.
The learning objectives for Dr. Makai's talk are: Objectives: 1. To understand how memory, executive function, and other cognitive abilities are typically measured in clinical trials of phytoestrogens. 2. To describe findings from clinical trials that address the impact of plant-based estrogens and pharmaceutical estrogens on memory, executive function and other cognitive abilities. 3. To understand literature suggestion that there might be a critical window in which estrogen and phytoestrogens impact cognitive function.
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"Immune System Enhancement using Botanicals: Identification of active components, standardization, clinical trials and relationship to the hygiene hypothesis."
Speaker: David Pasco, PhD - Research Professor, Research Institute Of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi; Assistant Director and Research Professor,The National Center for the Development of Natural Products, Oxford, Mississippi
Dr. Pasco's research on Echinacea has been funded by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health over the past 6 years. His lab has also developed two patented botanical products that target immune function and several clinical studies have been performed with these products.
Learning objectives for the presentation by Dr. Pasco:
1.Obtain an understanding of the difficulties involved in assessing the quality and efficacy of immune enhancing botanicals.
2. Learn how to more effectively choose immune enhancing botanicals.
3. Have a better understanding of the reasons for inconsistent results obtained in Echinacea clinical trials.
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Integrative Medicine in a Primary Care Office: Evidence Based and Outcome Oriented Treatment Approaches
Speaker: Bernd Wollschlaeger,MD,FAAFP,FASAM
Diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine & American Board of Addiction Medicine ;Fellow of the American Academy of Family Medicine & Addiction Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Miami, School of Medicine, Chair, American Nutraceutical Association's Medical Advisory Council
OBJECTIVES: 1) Describe and identify the scope of integrative treatment modalities. 2) Review evidence- based treatment approaches 3) Understand the application of outcome-based treatment principles 4) Discuss the opportunities and limitation of integrative treatment approaches in the clinical practice.
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