Colorado
Integrative Medicine Conference (cIMc 2009): Focus on Mind-Body Medicine
Photo and Bio of cIMc 2009 Speakers
Lisa Ware Corbin, MD, FACP
Associate Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Medical Director, the Center for Integrative Medicine
University of Colorado Hospital
- Session: Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Lisa Corbin received her medical degree with honors and distinction
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a
member of AOA Honor Medical Society. She completed her
Internal Medicine residency at the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center (UCHSC) and is board certified in Internal Medicine.
After serving as a Chief Medical Resident, she joined the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) faculty based at HealthONE
Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Hospital where she taught Internal Medicine
residents and students and saw internal medicine patients until
becoming the medical director of The Center for Integrative Medicine
(TCFIM) at its inception in September 2001.
Dr.
Corbin also serves as the President of AlterMed Research Foundation
Board.
Dr. Corbin’s current clinical, educational, and research focus on complementary / alternative medicine (CAM) was sparked by a desire to answer her patients’ questions about CAM therapies. She served on the steering committee for the creation of TCFIM at the University of Colorado Hospital. Dr. Corbin counsels patients interested in CAM, provides course direction for the CAM electives offered to Internal Medicine residents and students, lectures on herbal medicine in the School of Medicine, enjoys speaking to physician and patient groups, and is involved in campus CAM research. She has published original research, scholarly reviews, CME materials and book chapters on this subject.
Sona Dimidjian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
Boulder
- Session: Mindfulness and Radical Acceptance in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Session: The Clinical Application of Meditation for Mental Health
Dr.
Sona Dimidjian received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of
Washington in Clinical Psychology. A recipient of numerous awards in
the treatment of depression, her research focuses on both the treatment
and prevention of depression, with a specific focus on perinatal
depression. She has a strong interest in the clinical application of
mindfulness, including both Dialectical Behavior Therapy and
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. She has conducted numerous courses
and workshops on mindfulness-based treatments for clinicians and has a
longstanding mindfulness and yoga practice.
James S. Gordon, MD
Founder and Director, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM),
Washington, DC
Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine
at Georgetown Medical School
Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative
Medicine Policy (2000-2002)
- Session: Trauma and Transformation: Getting Unstuck and Taking the Healing Journey
- Session: Mind-Body Medicine is the Heart of All Healthcare
Dr.
James S. Gordon is a world-renowned expert in using mind-body medicine
to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma.
Dr.
Gordon has created ground-breaking programs of comprehensive mind-body
healing for physicians, medical students, and other health
professionals; for people with cancer, depression and other chronic
illnesses; and for traumatized children and families in the middle East
and in the Balkan peninsula, as well as in post-9/11 New York and
post-Katrina Louisiana and with U.S. military returning from the middle
East. Dr. Gordon and his colleagues have trained 3,000 health
and mental health professionals in the U.S. and overseas to more
effectively address the psychological trauma within their communities,
as well as to deal with chronic illness. He and his CMBM colleagues
have also supervised and trained local leadership teams to match the
CMBM model-a fully integrated and sustainable part of the local
healthcare system.
Judith A. Green, Ph.D.
Biofeedback Therapist, Health Psychology Services
Pioneer in Clinical Biofeedback
- Session: Biofeedback Therapy
- Session: Biofeedback Therapy Workshop
Dr. Judith Green is a pioneer in the field of clinical biofeedback
therapy and has worked for eight years at the Menninger Clinic as
Director of biofeedback seminars and as a researcher and biofeedback
therapist. Biofeedback therapy is a multi-modal approach to the
treatment of stress related disorders and disorders that are
exacerbated by stress, neuromuscular and neurological disorders and
certain behavioral disorders Dr. Green has given workshops throughout
the United States and in China and Thailand, and participated in
research in India. She has written extensively on the
principles and practice of biofeedback therapy with adults and
children, and co-authored The Dynamics of Health and
Wellness: A Biopsychosocial Approach, a college
level textbook. She is the recipient of awards from both
national and state professional societies for outstanding contributions
to the field.
Dr.
Green recently retired from clinical practice and has Professor
Emeritus status from Aims Community College in Greeley Colorado, the
first educational institution to offer classes in biofeedback training
and a clinical internship program. Dr. Green continues to
teach distance-learning classes for Master's students in consciousness
studies.
Lisa
Kaley-Isley, Ph.D. RYT
Chief
of Psychology, The Children's Hospital, Aurora, CO
Assistant
Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado
Denver School of Medicine
Clinical Director, Integrative Health Program, The Children's Hospital
- Yoga
Therapy for Pain, Fatigue, and Anxiety
Dr. Lisa Kaley-Isley earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology
from the
Dr. Kaley-Isley
is drawn to find the points of interplay within
individuals and systems and to promote integration.
In the Integrated Health program, she seeks
to foster integrated utilization of evidence-based eastern and western
treatment approaches. Her
clinical
interests are treating adolescents with co-morbid physical and mental
health
disorders and bringing enhanced awareness of the mind-body interaction
effects
to the teens, their parents, and other treating professionals. She has experienced the
utility of offering a
combination body and mindfulness based intervention such as yoga to
youth who
are experiencing stress, anxiety and depression, but who are primarily
distressed by their physiological symptoms of pain and illness, and who
are
adverse to traditional psychological and psychiatric approaches. Dr. Kaley-Isley integrates
her experience as
a clinical psychologist and a yoga teacher to provide individual and
group yoga
therapy and to lead Dialectical Behavior Therapy groups for teens and
their
parents. She
is currently evaluating
the clinical outcomes of these two approaches to enhancing mindfulness
and
mind-body integration.
Jim Knipe, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist, Colorado
- Session:
Eye-Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing
Overview: Research Support, Cautions and Application Video
Dr. Jim Knipe has been a Licensed Psychologist in private
practice in Colorado since 1976 and has been using Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) since 1992. EMDR is a
well-known treatment intervention for stress related disorders that was
originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic
memories. Dr. Knipe has written chapters for EMDR Casebook
(P. Manfield, 2002), EMDR Solutions (R.
Shapiro, 2005), and Healing the Heart of Trauma and
Dissociation (C. Forgash & M. Copeley, 2007).
These writings have described specific procedures that can be utilized
to extend EMDR to clients who present with self-defeating psychological
defenses and/or dissociative symptoms.
Dr.
Knipe is an EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program Trainer, an
EMDR International Association Approved Consultant, Level II Trainer
and Instructor, and was designated a “Master Clinician” by EMDRIA in
2007. He has been an invited guest speaker at the 2006 and 2007
EMDRIA Annual Conferences, the 2006 and 2008
EMDR-Europe Annual Conferences, and national EMDR conferences in
Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands and Turkey. He has been
involved with the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs, serving on the
Board of Directors and as Research and Training Director, and has also
been involved in HAP programs in Oklahoma City, Turkey, New York
(following 9/11), the Palestinian Territories, Sri Lanka and
Indonesia. In addition, he is a co-author of published outcome research
documenting the effects of EMDR with survivors of 9/11 and with those
traumatized by the 1999 Marmara earthquake in Turkey.
James H Lake, M.D.
Board Certified Psychiatrist
Chairman of the APA Caucus on Complementary, Alternative and
Integrative Mental Healthcare
- Session: Qi Gong in Mental Healthcare
- Session: The Role of Spirituality and Religion on Mental Health
Dr. James Lake is a Board Certified psychiatrist who attended medical
school at the University of California, Irvine, and completed a
residency in psychiatry at Stanford University Hospital. His
long-standing interests include studying the interface between mental
health and culture, and examining philosophical and scientific
perspectives of different systems of medicine as they pertain to the
assessment and treatment of mental illness. Dr. Lake is in private
practice in Monterey, California, where he uses both conventional
biomedical therapies and evidence-based alternative therapies. From
1998 through 2000 he was an attending physician at Stanford University
Hospital, where he consulted on psychiatric cases in the Complementary
Medicine Clinic. Dr. Lake is also on adjunct clinical faculty at the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
Medical School.
Dr. Lake's research and writing interests include the integration of Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, natural product-derived psychotropic medications, EEG neurofeedback in the treatment of anxiety disorders, ADHD and traumatic brain injury, and the roles of consciousness and directed intention in healing. With Bob Flaws, he co-authored Chinese Medical Psychiatry, A Textbook and Clinical Manual, Blue Poppy Press, 2000, and has written book chapters and articles on many areas of alternative and integrative medicine. Dr. Lake is on the advisory board, and contributes articles to the Alternative Medicine Research Report, and previously contributed to The Integrative Medicine Consult. He is on the editorial review board of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, and the Journal of Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. His two most recent books are Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care: Foundations and Clinical Applications and Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care.
Bennett R. Leslie, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Assistant Clinical Professor, Schools of Medicine and Psychiatry
University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences
- Session: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Talk and Introduction Workshop
Dr. Bennett Leslie, Psy.D. is a Psychologist with 20 years of clinical
experience in a variety of health care settings. Currently,
Dr. Leslie is the Clinical Psychologist at the Center for Integrative
Medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital. He is an
Assistant Clinical Professor in the schools of Medicine and Psychiatry
at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center.
His
clinical focus is on using cognitive and behavioral therapies to help
patients with a wide variety of health problems. These include
adaptation to medical disease, end-of-life care, the impact of disease
on relationships, depression, anxiety, work/life balance, and a desire
to focus on wellness. He also teaches physician-patient
communication in the Foundations of Doctoring program at the University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center and in the General Internal Medicine
residency. His teaching interests include motivation and
behavior change, mindfulness in psychotherapy, physician well being,
behavioral sciences in primary care, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,
and end-of-life communication.
Dr.
Leslie is a faculty member for the Institute of HealthCare
Communication and presents workshops on communication in health care
settings throughout the country. In addition to his teaching and
consulting responsibilities, Dr. Leslie sees patients in his private
practice in Denver and Boulder.
Lee Lipsenthal, M.D.
Founder and Director of the Finding Balance in a Medical Life
Program
Past President of the American Board of Holistic Medicine
- Session: Finding Balance in Healthcare
- Session: The Science of Connection
Dr. Lee Lipsenthal is a world recognized leader in Physician Health and
Integrative Holistic Medicine. He is a board-certified internist with
postgraduate training in cholesterol disorders and served as the
Medical Director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in
Sausalito, California for ten years, with Dr. Dean Ornish. His research
area is heart disease prevention. Dr. Lipsenthal consults with major
medical centers, health research organizations, and corporations on
health and wellness.
He is
the author of Finding Balance in a Medical Life and the founder and CEO
of Finding Balance, a company dedicated to improving the health and
well-being of physicians, nurses and medical systems. He delivers
seminars world-wide on physician health, trains faculty from medical
schools and residency programs in this area and also serves on the
American Medical Association’s Physician Wellness Committee.
Dr.
Lipsenthal will lecture on “Finding Balance in Healthcare.” This
lecture will review the core issues of a health professional’s work
satisfaction and work/home balance. The participants will learn how the
personality of a health professional and their way of managing stress
contributes to imbalance. They will then be given tips and tools on how
to enhance life balance, communication and to manage change.
Rollin McCraty, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Institute of HeartMath
- Session: The Relationship between Heart-Brain Dynamics, Positive Emotions, Coherence, Optimal Health and Cognitive Function
- Session: Practical Heart-Based Coherence Building Tools and Technologies for Improving Patient Outcomes
Dr. Rollin McCraty is Director of Research at the Institute of
HeartMath. His research interests include the physiology of emotion,
with a focus on the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive
processes, behavior, and health as well as the global energetic effect
between people and the earth’s energetic output.
David Rakel, M.D.
Medical Director, Integrative Medicine, University of Wisconsin School
of Medicine and Public Health
- Session: The Healer Within
- Session: Guided Imagery Talk and Workshop
Dr.
David Rakel started his career near the Teton Mountains in Driggs,
Idaho where he was in rural private practice for five years before
completing a two-year residential fellowship in integrative medicine at
the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. He is the founder and
director of the University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine Program
and Assistant Professor in the department on family medicine at the UW
School of Medicine and Public Health.
Dr. Rakel is editor of one of the premier texts in this field titled, “Integrative Medicine” now in its second edition. He is involved in NIH funding to study the placebo effect and to incorporate healing modalities into medical school curricula. He is board certified in family and holistic medicine and sits on the board of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and is on the executive committee for the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. He has a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine and is certified in interactive guided imagery.
Scott
Shannon, M.D.
Author of “Please Do Not Label My Child”
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Colorado Denver School of Medicine
- Session: Welcome and Intro
- Session: The Ecology of the Mind: An Overview of the Power of Our Mind in Physical Health
Dr. Scott Shannon practices as a holistic child psychiatrist in Fort Collins, Colorado and at CU Children’s Hospital in Denver at the new Integrative Child Psychiatry Clinic. Dr. Shannon joined the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978 as a founding member and served as president of that group from 2000-2001. He currently serves on the American Board of Holistic Medicine. Dr. Shannon also serves as a Director of AlterMed Research Foundation Board and the course director for Colorado Integrative Medicine Conference (cIMc 2009): focus on mind-body medicine.
Academic Press published his textbook for professionals, Handbook of Complementary Therapies in Mental Health in 2002. Rodale Press published Please Don’t Label My Child, a book on holistic child psychiatry for parents in 2007. Dr. Shannon lectures widely to professionals on the integrative treatment of psychiatric problems.
Marianne
Wamboldt, M.D. RYT
Cy and Lyndia Harvey Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The
Children's Hospital, Aurora, CO
Professor & Vice Chair for Child Psychiatry, Department of
Psychiatry
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Chair of Psychaitry and Behavioral Sciences, The Children's Hospital
- Yoga Therapy for Pain, Fatigue, and Anxiety
Marianne Z. Wamboldt, M.D. received her Medical Degree from the
University of Wisconsin
in Madison, where
she also did her internship and residency training. Her
fellowship training was with the National
Institute of Mental Health in research and with the University of
Colorado
in child psychiatry. She is Board certified in general psychiatry and
child and
adolescent psychiatry, and serves as an examiner for the American Board
of
Psychiatry and Neurology and for Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry. Dr. Wamboldt was the recipient of an NIH
Career Development Award to study the genetic and social determinants
of child
and adolescent health behaviors, has received several awards and honors
in her
field of study, and has authored over 70 medical publications.