11:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

Stuart Bondurant, MD, Committee Chair

11:15 a.m.

Sponsor Presentation of Charge

Stephen E. Straus, MD

Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

National Institutes of Health

11:45 a.m.

Committee Discussion and Clarification of Charge

12:15 p.m.

LUNCH

1:15 p.m.

Demographic Overview of Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States

David M. Eisenberg, MD

The Bernard Osher Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School

1:45 p.m.

White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

James Gordon, MD

Chair, White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

2:45 p.m.

BREAK

3:00 p.m.

Research Discussion—Overall Approaches and Accomplishments in Research Training and Outreach

Stephen E. Straus, MD

Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

National Institutes of Health

4:00 p.m.

Open Testimony

John Lunstroth

Antonio C. Martinez II, Martinez, Bass, and Associates

Anthony Rosner, Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research

4:30 p.m.

Open Discussion

5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

11:00-11:15 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

Stuart Bondurant, MD, Committee Chair

11:15-11:40 a.m.

The Scientific Approach to Decision Making—Levels of Evidence for Evaluating Treatment Efficacy and Effectiveness

Harold C. Sox, MD, MACP

Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine

11:40-12:00 p.m.

Discussion

12:00-1:00 p.m.

LUNCH

1:00-1:30 p.m.

Methodological Challenges in Evaluating CAM Therapies

Wayne Jonas, MD

Director, Samueli Institute

1:30-2:00 p.m.

Discussion

2:00-2:30 p.m.

Innovative Approaches to the Evaluation of CAM Therapies

Opher Caspi, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, The University of Arizona

2:30-3:00 p.m.

Discussion

3:00-3:15 p.m.

BREAK

3:15-3:45 p.m.

Developing the Research Workforce

Dilip Jeste, MD

Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging

University of California, San Diego

3:45-4:15 p.m.

Discussion

4:15 p.m.

Adjourn

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

Stuart Bondurant, MD, Committee Chair

PANEL

Developing Well-characterized and Reliable Products: Current Status and Challenges

8:45 a.m.

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994: Public Policy Considerations

Rowena Richter, MPH, MBA

Health Policy Analyst

9:15 a.m.

Characterization of Dietary Supplements: Research Considerations

Joseph Betz, PhD

Director, NIH Office of Dietary Supplement Program for Analytical Methods and Reference Materials

9:45 a.m.

Discussion

10:15 a.m.

BREAK

10:30 a.m.

Characterization of Dietary Supplements: Industry Considerations

Steven Dentali, PhD

Vice President for Scientific and Technical Affairs, American Herbal Products Association

David Morrison, JD, MS

Director of Scientific Affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim, Consumer Health Care, Pharmaton Natural Health Products

11:30 a.m.

Discussion

12:00 p.m.

LUNCH

PANEL

Licensure and Certification of CAM Therapies

1:30 p.m.

Licensure, Scope of Practice, and Regulation of CAM Therapies

Michael Cohen, JD, MBA

Director of Legal Programs, Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School

2:00 p.m.

Effects of Licensure on Individual CAM Therapies

Garrett Cuneo

Executive Vice President, American Chiropractic Association

Claude Gagnon

National Planning Committee Chair, American Massage Therapy Association

Timothy Birdsall, ND, Speaker of the House of Delegates and Director, American Association of Naturopathic Physicians

3:00 p.m.

Discussion

3:30 p.m.

BREAK

3:45 p.m.

Open Testimony

James Winterstein, DC, Secretary, American Academy of Chiropractic Physicians

Kelly Welch, LAc, Dipl Ac & Ch, American Association of Oriental Medicine

Antonio C. Martinez II, Martinez, Bass, and Associates

4:15 p.m.

Adjourn

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

Stuart Bondurant, MD, Committee Chair

8:45 a.m.

Strategies for Successful Integration.

Donald Novey, MD

Medical Director, The Center for Complementary Medicine Advocate Medical Group

PANEL

Integrative Approaches to Care

9:30 a.m.

Networks

George DeVries

President and CEO, American Specialty Health

9:50 a.m.

Cancer Treatment Centers

Timothy C. Birdsall, ND

Vice President for Integrative Medicine, Cancer Treatment Centers of America

10:15 a.m.

Discussion

10:45 a.m.

BREAK

PANEL

Integrative Approaches to Care

11:00 a.m.

Hospital Systems

Milton Hammerly, MD

Director of Integrative Medicine, Catholic Health Initiatives

11:20 a.m.

Health Maintenance Organization

Harley Goldberg, DO

Director, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Kaiser Permanente Medical Group

11:40 a.m.

Discussion

12:00 pm.

LUNCH

1:30 p.m.

Certifying Medical Doctors and Doctors of Osteopathy as Holistic Practitioners

Lee Lipsenthal, MD

American Board of Holistic Medicine

PANEL

Effects of Licensure on Individual CAM Therapies

2:15 p.m.

Will Morris, OMD, LAc, Dipl Ac

American Association of Oriental Medicine

2:35 p.m.

John Melnychuk, RSHom (NA) CCH

North American Society of Homeopaths

2:55 p.m.

Discussion

3:30 p.m.

Open Testimony

Matthew Bauer, LAc

Ugochi Erondi, MD, PhD

William Lauretti, DC, American Chiropractic Association

John Longhurst, MD, PhD, University of California at Irvine, College of Medicine

Harry Swope, ND, Council for Homeopathic Certification

Manfred Clynes, Georgetown University Lombardi Cancer Center

5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

Stuart Bondurant M.D., Committee Chair

8:45 a.m.

Creating a New Field of Research and Training—What Can We Learn from Past Efforts?

Geriatrics—Evolution of a New Field

William R. Hazzard, MD

Professor of Medicine, University of Washington

Director, Geriatrics and Extended Care, VA Puget Sound Health Care System

HIV/AIDS Behavioral Research Centers

Willo Pequegnat, PhD

Associate Director, Prevention, Translational, and International Research Center for Mental Health Research on AIDS

National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health

9:45 a.m.

Discussion

10:15 a.m.

BREAK

10:30 a.m.

Creating Educational Programs

1. Should CAM be integrated into medical/nursing education?

2. If not, why not? If so, what should be integrated?

3. How should it be incorporated into training?

Aviad Haramati, PhD

Professor and Director of Education

Georgetown University School of Medicine

Departments of Physiology and Biophysics

Mary Jo Kreitzer, RN, PhD

Director, Center for Spirituality and Healing

University of Minnesota

Lawrence Smith, MD

Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Medicine

Dean for Medical Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

11:30 a.m.

Discussion

12:00 p.m.

LUNCH

1:30 p.m.

NCCAM Activities

Stephen Straus, MD

Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

National Institutes of Health

2:15 p.m.

Discussion

3:00 p.m.

BREAK

3:15 p.m.

Open Testimony

David Luther, Medical Massage Office and Associates

Susan Bonfield Herschkowitz, Natural Medicine Consumer

Randall Neustaedter, Council for Homeopathic Certification

Victoria Goldsten, Washington Institute of Natural Medicine

Marissa Valeri, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Ardith Dentzer, Writer

Thomas Shepherd, Bastyr University

Doug Mann, University of North Carolina

William Lauretti, American Chiropractic Association

4:00 p.m.

Adjourn