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Friday, April 15, 2005
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CONTACT:
NCCAM Press Office
301-496-7790 |
Expert in Integrative Health Care To Speak at NCCAM’s Distinguished Lecture Series
| What: |
On April 22, the National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), part of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), will host a Distinguished Lecture in the
Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Ralph Snyderman, M.D.,
of Duke University and currently visiting professor at University
of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will present “Integrative
Medicine: A Foundation for Prospective Health Care.”
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| When: |
Friday, April 22, 2005, from 11:00 a.m. to noon
Masur Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center (Building 10)
10 Center Drive, Bethesda, Maryland
The event is free and open to the public and will be videocast
live at videocast.nih.gov. |
| Why: |
Dr. Snyderman, currently a visiting
professor at UCSF, is Chancellor Emeritus of Duke University and
James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of
Medicine. As Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the School
of Medicine at Duke, he oversaw the development of the Duke University
Health System, one of the most successful integrated academic health
systems in the country, and served as its President and Chief Executive
Officer. During this lecture, Dr. Snyderman will discuss how the
current health care system will be transformed from a reactive
to proactive one in which integrative medicine approaches will
be some of the needed tools used to prevent disease and treat individuals’ health
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For more information or reasonable accommodations, call 301-348-1606,
or the Federal Relay at 1-800-877-8339.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative medical (CAM)
practices in the context of rigorous science, training CAM researchers,
and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals.
For additional information, call NCCAM’s Clearinghouse toll free
at 1-888-644-6226, or visit the NCCAM Web site at nccam.nih.gov.
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