5th Annual UF Health Integrative Medicine Conference

About the UF Health Integrative Medicine 5th Annual Conference on April 21, 2018: 7:00am 4:30pm The 5th Annual Integrative Medicine Conference will take place this year on April 21, 2018 at the Harrell Medical Education Building in Gainesville, FL. As part of our programs commitment to promote health and wellbeing, we are focusing our fifth annual conference on integrative pain management. Flow: Mind, Movement and Energy offers both content and practical application of recent information in the field of mindfulness and movement-based therapies. It provides an excellent opportunity for the healthcare professional and interested public audience to understand the relationship of the mind and the body and how it can be utilized as an effective non-pharmacologic adjunct to pain management.

The conference will equip physicians and other healthcare professionals with knowledge, skills and resources needed to use these therapies to decrease improper utilization prescription drugs, particularly opioids, for pain management.

Our intended audience is primary care and specialty care physicians, rehabilitation professionals, nurses, nurse practitioners, athletic trainers, manual and massage therapists, meditation and yoga instructors and acupuncturists.

Local and national experts will be speaking at this conference. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Peter Dorsher, MD, faculty at Mayo Clinic, in Jacksonville, FL. Dr. Dorsher has primary research interests in the application of ancient healing traditions, including acupuncture to modern health care through understanding their physiologic mechanisms. Dr. Dorshers research aims to translate 5000 years of clinical knowledge into contemporary terminology to allow endogenous treatment of pain, physical disorders and psychological disorders.

Please view our Agenda at http://integrativemed.cme.ufl.edu/agenda/ to view the all of the topics that will be presented and speakers who are participating in this event.

Contact Gianna Gamache for more information.