2005 CEWM Annual Conference
On November 30, 2005 at the Northwest Campus Auditorium, the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine hosted their 10th annual conference, Optimizing the Care of Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors: A Patient-Centered Approach. This conference was designed as a forum for multiple stake-holders to discuss how a patient-centered, integrative health model may address the needs and aspirations of breast cancer patients and survivors. Click here for more details.
The conference was attended by breast cancer patients and survivors as well as clinicians, researches and other major stake-holders in breast cancer community. The Center for East-West Medicine invited speakers from various areas in the field of medicine and health from the Division of Nutrition to the Department of Psychology. Also invited to speak were two breast cancer survivors who shared their experience of the effectiveness of integrative medicine. More specifically, they discussed how the integrative medical treatments they received alieved a lot of pain and also minimized many of the symptoms caused by chemotherapy. The array of perspectives provided a dynamic approach to the subject of how to provide optimal care for breast cancer patients. Through a train-the trainer model the comprehensive list of speakers created a context of optimal care to breast cancer patients and survivors for the audience.
The keynote speaker, Edzard Ernst, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) flew in from the U.K. to give a lecture titled, Complementary Alternative Medicine for Cancer: the Evidence. Edzard Ernst is the holder of the Lain Chair in Complementary Medicine at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, and he is the first chair in complementary medicine in Britain. The UCLA Center for East-West Medicine was honored to have him as a keynote speaker.
Program
Keynote: Complementary Alternative Medicine for Cancer: the Evidence
Edzard Ernst, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, FRCP (Edin)
Laing Chair in Complementary Medicine
Professor of Complementary Medicine
Peninsula Medical School
Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, UK
Breast Cancer Care in the Medical Oncology Clinic: Cure, Chronic Diseases and Complications
Richard Pietras, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Department of Medicine
Dealing with Breast Problems in the Multidisciplinary Setting
Sherry Goldman, R.N., N.P.
Director of Patient Services
Revlon Breast Center
A Psychologist’s Perspective on the Needs of women with Breast Cancer through Survivorship
Anne Coscarelli, Ph.D.
Director
Ted Mann Family Resource Center
Helping survivors Cope with Post-treatment Symptoms
Saskia Subramanian, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Sociologist
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
A Perspective from the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine and Breast Cancer Survivors
Sue Yie, M.D.
Staff Physician and Clinical instructor
Center for East-West Medicine
Department of Medicine
The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by California Women with Breast Cancer
Michael Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health and Sociology
School of Public Health
Herbs and Other CAM Therapies in the Treatment of Breast Cancer Patients
Mary Hardy, M.D.
Director of Integrative Medicine Group
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
The Integrative East-West Medicine Approach to Improve the Care of Patients and Survivors
Ka-Kit Hui, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Founder and Director
Center for East-West Medicine
Department of Medicine
Cancer, Culture and Coping
Margie Kagawa-Singer, R.N., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Public Health and Asian American Studies Center
Does It Help to Express Emotions about Breast Cancer?
Annette Stanton, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral sciences
Breast Cancer Survivors Comment
Angela Agbasi
Women of Color Breast Cancer Survivors’ Support Project
Anne Scott