Information and Registration

March 27th, 2015
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Free

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6.25 Nursing CE credits applied for as well as 6.0 social work CE credits

The purpose of this training is to enable the learner to be aware of the various forms of complementary and integrative therapies available, in order to improve and enhance the quality of care of individuals in New Mexico.

 Agenda

8:30 – 9:00	Registration and Welcome
9:00 – 10:00	“Integrative Team Based Health Care: Caring for Patients and Families”	Arti Prasad, MD, FACP
10:00 – 11:00	“A Beginners Mind: Exploring Meditation”	Barbara Welcer, RN, BAS, HNC, CHTP/I
11:00 – 11:15	Break
11:15 – 12:15	"Massage Therapy for Acute and Chronic care of Low Back Pain in New Mexico”	David Lang, MTPT, LMT
12:15 – 1:15	Lunch provided by Continuum of Care
1:15 – 2:15	“Integrative Medicine: An Opportunity for Specialty Populations?”	Julie Sonnenberg, MA, LPC
2:15 – 3:15	“Medical Acupuncture: Past, Present and Future”	Mark Lee, MD
3:15 – 3:30	Break
3:30 – 4:30	Panel Discussion “Patient Case Study: Rehabilitation versus Quality of Life Treatment with Integrative Medicine	Arti Prasad, MD, FACP; Mark Lee, MD; David Lang, MTPT, LMT; Julie Sonnenberg, MA, LPC; and, Barbara Welcer, RN, BAS, HNC, CHTP/I
4:30 – 4:45	Wrap-up and Evaluations

 

About the Speakers

	Mark Lee, MD
Arti Prasad MD, FACP, the Division Chief of General Internal Medicine is also the UNM Center for Life's founding Executive Director. The most important and fulfilling aspect of Dr. Prasad's career is to provide patient-centered and compassionate care to her patients, creating and expanding new programs, fund-raising, and mentoring and coaching her faculty, colleagues, staff, residents, and students.	Prior to joining the faculty at UNM, I was trained and on faculty at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for 20 years. During my tenure at Mayo Clinic, I was a founding member and Director of Education for the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program for 10 years and Vice Chair of the acupuncture practice.	David Lang, MTPT, LMT, has been working as a therapist since 1992. After years of dance and movement training in New York City he realized that Massage and movement therapy was a natural progression in his life! David started his career at the office of Dr. Lyman Atchley and then moved into a position at Southwest Myotherapy where he learned the skills of a Myotherapist. He started his own company Myofascial Associates in 1999. David has trained and practices Visceral/Neuro Manipulation, Active Isolated stretching and is well versed in many energy techniques. He has worked on research with Sandy Whistler, MD on the efforts of "Myotherapy with Children with Special Needs."

Early in her career, Julie Sonnenberg served as the Practice Manager at two holistic practices in Kansas City which offered physician consultation, acupuncture, cranial sacral therapy, chiropractic, massage, and movement therapy. Her UNM employment includes being the Director of Care Management at UNM Children's Psychiatric Hospital and Quality Consultant and Clinical Quality Manager at UNM Hospital. Her career has been devoted to ensuring patient access to quality care through planning and coordination with providers, staff, insurance companies, and providing patients with a "WOW" experience in their health care.

Barbara Welcer has practiced nursing in a variety of healthcare settings including in-patient pediatrics, emergency medicine, community health education and holistic nursing. Her philosophy on health and healing is based on the concepts of wholeness, recognizing the interconnectedness of our body, mind, spirit, and emotion. She has received certification in Holistic Nursing from the American Holistic Nurses Association and integrates holistic concepts in her practice as a nurse. Barb is also certified through Healing Touch International as both a practitioner and instructor of Healing Touch (HT), an energy based therapy. Her prior research on HT in the hospitalized patient demonstrated statistically significant improvements in self reported levels of pain, stress, and anxiety. Barb is dedicated to promoting the merits of energy work and holistic principles through teaching, research, and practice. She specializes in Reiki, Healing Touch, and holistic nursing interventions, teaching classes on self care, stress management, imagery, and breath work.

Site Information

We are pleased to be able to offer this training live in Albuquerque and at locations outside of Albuquerque.  The main site will be in Albuquerque at the AFRL conference space across the hall from the Continuum of Care offices. The other sites will participate remotely but will be able to interact with the speakers and audience via chat.

	Albuquerque	Santa Fe	Las Cruces	Roswell**	Gallup or Farmington*	Silver City	Clovis
Address	AFRL across the Hall from CoC	State Personnel Office	Mountain Shadows Home Care	DDSD SE Regional Office		Lifequest	ENMRSH
	2350 Alamo Dr. SE, Ste 150 Albuquerque NM 87106	Room 102, 2600 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM	800 N. Telshor Blvd., Las Cruces, NM  88011	726 S. Sunset Ste. B Roswell, NM 88023		907 Pope St., Silver City, NM  88061	2700 East 7th Street, Clovis, NM 88101
contact	Eula Michaels (505) 925-2350	Judith Pierce (575) 758-5934	Randall Cahall, RN (575) 642-4360	Maria Sanders, RN, CDDN (866) 895-9138	Allison Byrnes, RN (505) 326-5784	Deb Frasca (575) 388-1976 x202	Therese Musick, (575) 762-3718

*Exact information for Gallup/Farmington will be updated the week of March 15th.

**This location is expected to be open for this training, however, there is a possibility that it may not.

Registration

Registration is now closed.  For all questions about registration, please call Eula Michaels at (505) 925-2350.