What's New
The UCLA Center for East-West Medicine and the UCLA School of Public Health are currently collaborating with the University of Toronto on a Neck Pain Utility Study. This study, whose aim is to evaluate the quality of life of patients with neck pain at the Center, is part of the Neck Pain Task Force 2000-2010.
In collaboration with the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Studies, the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine has been awarded a grant from The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to study the potential of the integrative East-West approach to improve the outcomes of breast cancer survivors with disabling symptoms. Researchers at the Center will begin seeing patients as of January 2006. The Center will build upon this research to develop an Integrative East-West Breast Cancer Clinical Recovery Program.
A research study is currently underway to evaluate the improvement of eye health and quality of life through the integration of acupressure massage into standard medical care for those patients suffering from dry eye syndrome. The Center for East-West Medicine is working in collaboration with the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute on this pilot study, which is generously supported by the Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation.
2008
April
- Title:Translating Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) into Clinical Practice for the Treatment of Chronic Headaches
Date: April 10, 2008
Speaker: Malcolm Taw, MD & Lawrence Taw, MD
Location: Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) 31st Annual National Meeting, David Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA
March
- Title: Optimizing Health & Achieving Wellness Through Nutrition - An Integrative East-West Medicine Perspective
Date: March 31`, 2008
Speaker: Malcolm Taw,MD
Location: UCLA Wellness Event, NPI Auditorium C8-183
- Title:Integrative Health: an emerging global trend, challenges and opportunities
Date: March 29 -31, 2008
Speaker: Ka-Kit Hui, MD, FACP
Location: 3rd Interantional Congress on Complementary Medicine Research, Sydney Convention Center, Sydney, Australia
- Title: Sleep: An Integrative East-West Medicine Perspective
Date: March 26, 2008
Speaker: Lawrence Taw,MD and Irene Kim, LAc
Location: Wise and Healthy Aging, (22nd and Arizona Ave., Santa Monica)
- Title: Acupuncture & Acupressure for Successful Aging
Date: March 19, 2008
Speaker: Malcolm Taw,MD
Location: Wise and Healthy Aging, (22nd and Arizona Ave., Santa Monica)
Febuary
- Title: Fibromyalgia: An Integrative East-West Medicine Perspective
Date: Feb. 14, 2008
Speaker: Lawrence Taw, MD
Location: Kaiser Harbor City Medical Center