2016 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health

 描述(由申请人提供)：此R13申请请求支持将于2016年5月17-20日在内华达州拉斯维加斯绿谷牧场度假村举行的名为2016国际整合医学与健康大会的会议。这次会议由整合医学与健康学术联盟(Consortium)赞助，该联盟代表了美国、加拿大和墨西哥的60多个学术健康中心和健康系统，其项目侧重于综合健康补充疗法和模式的教育、研究和临床交付。本次会议旨在通过主旨和全体报告、海报、座谈会和研讨会的方式展示涉及补充和综合健康疗法的原创科学研究。基础科学研究人员、临床和卫生服务研究人员将展示原创研究，并通过同行评议程序选出适度的小组陈述。该领域的领导者将被邀请发表主旨演讲，并主持同时进行的研究报告。会议的规划由组织委员会监督，该委员会由五个关键委员会(计划、科学审查、财务、筹款和传播)的主席组成，并与联盟的执行委员会和指导委员会保持联系。委员会的主席和成员是来自美国、加拿大和欧洲传统和互补医学研究社区的领导人，包括受资助的研究人员、综合中心主任、教育工作者和政策研究人员。计划委员会负责确定会议的主题和选择主旨演讲者。将征求各届会议(专题讨论会、专题讨论和研讨会)的建议书，以及提交研究摘要。所有这些都将在科学审查委员会进行的过程中接受同行质量审查。2014年大会以前使用的评审员库中列出了大约250名专家评审员，确定身份的同行评审员程序由科学审查委员会指导，并得到该联合会研究委员会的建议。这将是该联盟主办的第五次科学会议。第一次是2006年在加拿大阿肯色州埃德蒙顿举行的，来自19个国家的近600人参加了会议。第二次会议于2009年在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯举行，来自24个国家的约800人参加了会议。第三次会议于2012年在俄勒冈州波特兰举行，来自30个国家的1000多人参加了会议。最近一次会议是2014年在佛罗里达州迈阿密举行的，来自23个国家的约700人参加了会议。这次国际与会者的聚会旨在实现我们宣布的在世界各地加强综合保健研究的目标。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R13 application requests support for a conference entitled, 2016 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health, to be held at the Green Valley Ranch Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 17-20, 2016. The conference is sponsored by the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (Consortium), which represents over 60 academic health centers and health systems in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with programs focusing on education, research and clinical delivery of complementary therapies and models of integrative health. This conference is meant to showcase by way of keynote and plenary presentations, posters, symposia and workshops, original scientific research involving complementary and integrative health therapies. Basic science investigators, clinical and health service researchers will present original research and moderate panel presentations selected through a peer-review process. Leaders in the field will be invited to provide keynote addresses and to moderate concurrent research presentations. The planning for the conference is overseen by the Organizing Committee, which is composed of the Chairs of five key committees (Program, Scientific Review, Finance, Fundraising, and Communications, with liaison to the Consortium's Executive and Steering Committees). The Chairs and members of the committees are leaders from the conventional and complementary medical research communities of the United States, Canada and Europe, including funded investigators, directors of integrative centers, educators and policy researchers. The Program Committee is charged with determining the themes for the conference and selecting the keynote speakers. Proposals for sessions (symposia, featured discussions and workshops) will be solicited, as will submission of research abstracts. All will undergo peer-review for quality in a process conducted by the Scientific Review Committee. Roughly 250 expert reviewers are listed in a pool of reviewers previously used for the 2014 Congress, and the de-identified peer review process is directed by the Scientific Review Committee, with recommendations from the Consortium's Research Committee. This will be the fifth scientific conference sponsored by the Consortium. The first was in Edmonton, AB, Canada in 2006 with close to 600 participants from 19 countries. The second was in Minneapolis, MN in 2009 with approximately 800 participants from 24 countries. The third was held in Portland, Oregon in 2012 with over 1,000 participants from 30 countries. The most recent conference was in Miami, Florida in 2014 with roughly 700 participants from 23 countries. This gathering of international participants is aimed to achieve our stated goal of strengthening research in integrative healthcare around the world.