Articles by Shari Barbanel
IFM Announced New Board of Directors Leadership
The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has announced the appointment of Gail C. Christopher, DN, (Chair) David S. Jones, MD (Vice-Chair), David Harris, BFA (Secretary), and Terry L. Cook, CFP, CIMA (Treasurer) to serve as Board Officers for a two-year term, January 2024-December 2025. IFM’s governing Board of Directors brings stewardship, insight, expertise and resources ...
Food as Medicine Symposium Celebrates 10 Years of Promoting Health, Wellness
The 10th annual Food as Medicine Symposium, which took place Feb. 10-11 at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, OR, signified a decade of dedication to promoting health and wellness through the transformative power of food. With an overarching theme of “Nutrition for Mental Health,” the symposium delved into the profound impact ...
Pitt Launches Doctor of Chiropractic Program
The University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) will begin offering a Doctor of Chiropractic program, the first at a research-intensive public university in the United States and the only one in Pennsylvania, according to Anthony Delitto, dean of SHRS. The program will focus on evidence-based training for spine and musculoskeletal conditions and ...
ACA Launches Health Policy Fellowship
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has launched a Health Policy Fellowship to educate doctors of chiropractic about health policy, coding and other complex issues and to prepare them to advocate on behalf of the chiropractic profession in the future. ACA members selected to participate in the fellowship’s first cohort are: Cynthia Chapman, DC, MPH, of ...
Logan University Names New Director of Admissions
Logan University (Chesterfield, MO) has named Lucas Hahn as the new director of admissions. Hahn brings more than a decade of experience in higher education enrollment to Logan. In his role, he will work with the admissions team to develop, design and implement enrollment strategies and fulfill the university’s recruitment goals for new students. As ...
Active Components of Ginkgo biloba May Improve Early Cognitive Recovery After Stroke
People with ischemic (clot-caused) stroke had better early recovery of cognitive function if treated with intravenous injections of a combination of biologically active components of Ginkgo biloba during the first two weeks after the stroke, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2024. The meeting will ...
IHS 2024 Expands With Added Networking, On-site Offerings
The Integrative Healthcare Symposium (IHS) announced that it is expanding the 2024 event with elevated on-site offerings. Under new leadership, IHS will emphasize networking and in-person experiences this Feb.15-17 in New York, NY. “The most common feedback we hear from Symposium attendees is the need for more peer-to-peer connection and learning, not just at our event, ...
ACA Elects New Leadership
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) installed new leadership during its annual meeting in January in Washington, D.C. Leo Bronston, DC, MAppSc, of Onalaska, WI, was elected president of the association, and Marcus Nynas, DC, of Billings, MT, was re-elected vice president for the 2024-2025 term by members of the ACA Board of Governors (BoG). Dr. ...
Sonoran University Announces New School of Mental Health and Clinical Mental Health Counseling Degree
Sonoran University of Health Sciences (Tempe, AZ) has announced it has established a School of Mental Health to house an innovative new Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree program. The program will welcome its first class in Oct. 2024 and serves to meet the urgent need for licensed mental health practitioners locally and ...
New Gut-Brain Circuits Found for Sugar and Fat Cravings
Understanding why we overeat unhealthy foods has been a long-standing mystery. While we know food’s strong power influences our choices, the precise circuitry in our brains behind this is unclear. The vagus nerve sends internal sensory information from the gut to the brain about the nutritional value of food. But, the molecular basis of the ...
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