Conference Schedule 2018 Trends in Nutrition, Pain Management, and Mind-Body Therapies
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Restoring patient wellness. Building physician practices. September 27-30, 2018 Burlington, Vermont Conference Schedule 2018 Trends in Nutrition, Pain Management, and Mind-Body Therapies To receive CME/CE credits, please complete the evaluations in the Surveys section of the conference app. www.restorative.com Do Your Patients Need Powerful Thyroid Support? Do your patients struggle with low body temperature and inefficient metabolism? Thyroid Px is the answer when your patients need extra thyroid support. Providing a dose of 12 mg iodine per serving, plus additional nutrients and herbs, Thyroid Px effectively supports essential T4- T3 conversion. This formula can help stabilize thyroid peroxidase immunoglobulins which are essential for normal thyroid activity. 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Table of Contents Welcome Letter ...........................................................5 About AARM ..............................................................7 Certification in T3 Therapy ..................................................8 Continuing Education Credits ..............................................9 General Conference Information ...........................................10 Hotel Map ................................................................11 Conference Schedule .....................................................12 Conference Faculty .......................................................16 Presentation Descriptions .................................................21 Post Conference Notes ....................................................29 Speaker Financial Disclosure ..............................................29 Exhibitor Directory .......................................................31 Exhibitor Booth Map ......................................................41 Conference recordings can be purchased by attendees at a reduced rate of $250. Purchase can only be made during the conference at the registration desk. Discounted rate does not apply after September 30, 2018. To receive CME/CE credits, please complete the evaluations in the Surveys section of the conference app. 3 4 Welcome to the 16th Annual International Restorative Medicine Conference! elcome to Burlington! We are proud to be hosting the planting fruit trees, supporting farmers, and protecting forests. annual conference in AARM’s beautiful home state of The conference also makes a donation to a local charity as WVermont this year. Our conference theme, 2018 Trends part of a thank you gift to the speakers rather than presenting in Nutrition, Pain Management, and Mind- Body Therapies material gifts. This year, we contributed to the Vermont intends to reach a wide range of interests and modalities within Food Bank, which distributes millions of pounds of food to Restorative Medicine. I am grateful for the contributions from Vermonters in need. our excellent faculty this year, who represent a diverse mix of The Restorative Medicine Conference continues to prioritize MDs, DOs, NDs, and herbalists, from both the US and Canada. diversity and inclusion. My wish is that this fun and friendly One of our goals for 2018 is to further enhance the fun and gathering will help you better serve your patients, as well as positive energy generated by our annual conference! I hope help you grow your practice. I hope to see you next year in you’ll join our kava party on Saturday night, with live music, a sunny San Diego, CA on September 12- 15, 2019! cash bar, and dancing with the afro-funk band Sabouyouma. On Thursday, legendary herbalist Rosemary Gladstar is In Health, hosting a full day of herb farm tours, and shorter herb walks are being offered on Friday. For the foodies among us, there are a lot of exciting and delicious restaurants and pubs within walking distance of the hotel in downtown Burlington. For the Michaël Friedman, ND conference lunches and breaks, healthy local organic foods AARM Executive Director from Vermont will be featured. We’re also going greener and more high-tech this year by offering a conference management app to use on your phone This conference is dedicated to my cousins, Drew and or tablet. Everything you need to know about the conference is Meredith, and to those who lost their battle with opioid now available in one convenient location. The app allows you addiction much too soon in their lives. I strongly believe that to pre-plan which lectures you want to attend. The conference integrative medicine has the greatest potential to help solve evaluation can be completed on the app, which helps us reduce the opioid crisis by offering effective alternatives to pain paper waste and allows us to generate your CME certificates management. more efficiently. For more information on the conference app, My hope is that this conference also serves to increase see page 7 of this booklet. clinicians’ awareness of patients who are at risk of addiction, Another green initiative is credited to Restorative and to guide them to the assistance that they need. Thank Formulations, the platinum sponsor for the conference. Aware you to all of you who are carrying out this important mission. of the carbon dioxide emissions created by holding a conference of this size (through travel, hotels and food production), they With peace and gratitude, contributed approximately $4000 to COTAP.org — Carbon Jen Palmer, ND Offsets To Alleviate Poverty. This money goes towards projects AARM Communications and Education Director in India, Africa and Nicaragua to offset carbon emissions, by 5 Thank You To Our Conference Sponsors: Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsor Silver Sponsors Bronze Sponsors Conference Education Partners Workshop Sponsor Vermont Association of Naturopathic Physicians 6 About AARM he Association for the Advancement of Restorative AARM certifies health care practitioners in specific Medicine (AARM) is a non-profit medical association Restorative Medicine therapies. For example, providers who Twhich supports cross-disciplinary learning and attend the T3 certification courses at our conferences can collaboration in the use of herbal, nutritional, and hormone take an online exam and become certified in T3 therapy. By medicines. AARM’s focus is on providing medical education providing education from leading experts, clinical research, about endocrine system disorders, with an emphasis and cutting-edge protocols, AARM is empowering physicians on therapeutic approaches for treating hypothyroidism, to more effectively treat their patients and build their practices hyperthyroidism, adrenal dysfunction, and dysglycemia, through the use of herbal, nutritional, and natural hormone as well as male and female hormonal imbalances. We also medicines. provide protocols and scientific information to physicians for A one-year membership in AARM is only $49 and includes: using Restorative Medicine to treat chronic diseases, including • Five CME credits for reading Journal of Restorative digestive, respiratory, nervous, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, Medicine articles. Only AARM members are eligible to and autoimmune diseases. receive these online credits (members must pass quizzes AARM’s education for healthcare professionals occurs to receive credits). through several channels. Each year, hundreds of physicians • 20% discount on all AARM conference registrations and and other healthcare providers attend our conferences in educational resources, such as conference recordings the U.S. and Canada. Recordings of conference lectures and books are available on our website for those who prefer to learn remotely. AARM also publishes the peer-reviewed Journal To become a member, visit restorativemedicine.org/ of Restorative Medicine (JRM). Continuing medical education membership. During the conference, you can also stop by the credits are available for many of our educational products. registration desk and we’ll be glad to sign you up. The Entire Conference at Your Fingertips! 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