 Unstuck:
Dealing with Depression
with Dr. James S. Gordon [read
bio]
DATE: THURSDAY EVENING,
OCTOBER 9, 2008
TIME: 7:00-9:30PM
LOCATION: St. Mary’s Hall Theatre
9401 Starcrest, San Antonio, TX 78217
*(Please reserve your space on Kenkou’s website: www.kenkou4u.com
under tab, Seminar Registration or call 210.861.4000)
Comprehensive
Cancer Care
Integrating alternative,
complementary and conventional therapies with Dr.
James S. Gordon [read bio]
DATE: Friday, October 10, 2008
TIME: 7:30AM-11:45AM
LOCATION:St. Mary’s Hall Theatre
9401 Starcrest, San Antonio, TX 78217
Ultimately the delivery of cancer care that addresses psychosocial
needs depends on having a health care workforce with attitudes,
knowledge, and skills needed to deliver such care. Thus, professional
education and training should not be ignored as a factor influencing
health practitioners’ practices.
Institute of Medicine, Treating the Whole Cancer Patient: Meeting
Psychosocial Needs. November, 2007
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
• Oncologists and Oncology Professionals
• Physicians and Physician Assistants
• Nurses and Nurse Practitioners
• Cancer Patient Educators and Advocates
• Psychologists & Social Workers
• Mental Health and Pastoral Counselors
• CAM Practitioners
TUITION:
Health Care Professionals: $155.00
Students in health care specialties: $100.00
REGISTRATION:
On-line at www.kenkou4u.com
OBJECTIVES: To enable attendees to:
• Understand the dilemmas facing cancer patients who want comprehensive
care
• Become familiar with the principles and research literature
on complementary therapies which can easily be integrated into comprehensive
cancer care
• Understand situations in which alternative therapies are
most relevant.
NOTE: In 1998 the Center for Mind Body
Medicine commenced a
Comprehensive Cancer Care Program to assist practitioners to become
Cancer Guides. Dr. Gordon has continued this program for the past
10
years and has valuable expertise in the area of cancer care.Raising
Confidence In Health Decisions
Continuing Medical Education Units
The Texas Medical Association designates this educational activity
for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians
should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
The Texas Association has designated Cancer and Depression
for 1 hour of medical ethics and/or professional responsibility education.
The Texas Medical Association is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide
continuing medical education for physicians
This presentation is designed for physicians and
physician assistants. It is intended to provide professional education
about the dilemmas patients face when wanting comprehensive care.
Continuing Nurse Education Units
The Nurse Oncology Education Program (NOEP) is a nonprofit project
of the Texas Nurses Association/Foundation (TNA/F) funded by the
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Nurses can earn a maximum of 6 contact hours through the TNA/F provider
unit.
TNA/F is accredited as a provider of continuing
nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s
Commission on Accreditation.
Other Units
Six Continuing Education Units are also granted to psychologists,
professional counselors through provider #731, licensed social
workers through provider #5087
James S. Gordon, MD. Bio
James S. Gordon, MD, is the Founder and Director of the Center for
Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) and a Clinical Professor in the Departments
of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Georgetown University
School of Medicine. Dr. Gordon recently served as Chair of the
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Policy. He also served as the first Chair of the Program Advisory
Council of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of
Alternative Medicine and is a former member of the Cancer Advisory
Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the NIH.
Dr. Gordon has devoted over 35 years to the exploration and practice
of mind-body medicine. A Harvard Medical School graduate, he was
for ten years a research psychiatrist at the National Institute of
Mental Health. There he developed the first national program for
runaway and homeless youth, edited the first comprehensive studies
of alternative and holistic medicine, directed the Special Study
on Alternative Services for President Carter’s Commission on
Mental Health, and created a nationwide preceptorship program for
medical students.
Dr. Gordon created and directs the ground-breaking Healing the Wounds
of War program that provides comprehensive healing for traumatized
children and families, and those who serve them, in Bosnia, Kosovo,
Israel and Gaza; as well as for firefighters, their widows, families
and children in coping with the effects of the September 11th disaster.
Nearly a thousand professionals throughout these post-conflict and
on-going conflict areas have been trained by Dr. Gordon to more effectively
address the trauma within their communities. Dr. Gordon has supervised
and trained a leadership group within each country to enhance the
innate sustainability of the CMBM approach. He creates the curriculum
and supervises the CMBM clinical faculty who provide training within
the U.S. and internationally.
Dr. Gordon has also created important professional programs for physicians,
medical students and other health professionals; for people with
cancer, depression and other chronic illnesses. Dr. Gordon integrates
relaxation therapies, hypnosis, meditation, acupuncture, nutrition,
herbalism, musculoskeletal manipulation, dance, yoga and physical
exercise in his own practice of medicine and psychiatry.
Dr. Gordon’s two most recent books are Comprehensive Cancer
Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies
and Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships
and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies (both Perseus Books). In
addition, Dr. Gordon has written or edited nine other books, including
the award-winning Health for the Whole Person, and more than 120
articles in professional journals and general magazines and newspapers,
among them the American Journal of Psychiatry, Alternative Therapies
in Health and Medicine, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Psychiatry,
The American Family Physician, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington
Post, and The New York Times. He helped develop and write the educational
materials to supplement the public television series “Healing
and the Mind with Bill Moyers”.
Dr. Gordon’s work has been featured on Good Morning America,
The Today Show, CNN, CBS Sunday Morning, FOX News and National Public
Radio, as well as in The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, People,
American Medical News, Clinical Psychiatry News, Town and Country,
Hippocrates, Psychology Today, Vegetarian Times, Natural Health,
Health and Prevention. |
