N. American Integrative Medicine Scientific Conference

描述(由申请人提供)：此R13申请请求支持将于2009年5月12-15日在明尼阿波利斯希尔顿酒店举行的题为北美补充和综合医学研究会议。这次会议由学术健康中心综合医学联盟(CAHCIM)赞助，该联盟代表美国和加拿大的39所医学院，项目重点是补充疗法和综合医学模式。会议的举办地是明尼苏达大学灵性与治疗中心，该中心是CAHCIM的成员。本次研究会议旨在展示该领域最高质量、经过同行评审的原创研究。它的教职员工由来自美国和加拿大的传统和互补的医学研究社区的领导人组成，其中包括联邦和省资助的研究人员、综合中心主任、教育工作者和政策研究人员。原始摘要的专家评审员由该联盟的研究指导委员会管理的程序提名。这是一系列非常成功的会议中的第四次，这些会议最初由哈佛医学院(HMS)和加州大学旧金山分校(UCSF)共同主办，具有类似的焦点、观众和同行审查程序。最近一次会议(也是第一次由该联盟赞助)于2006年5月在加拿大阿肯色州埃德蒙顿举行。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医疗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。 与公共卫生相关：公开科学会议介绍和讨论新的同行评审工作，这对推进所有研究学科至关重要，因为它们允许科学家、监管者、资助者、培训中的研究人员和商业实体在一个集中的环境中聚集在一起，从各自学科最近的重要工作中探索数据，解决共同关心的问题，并检查有助于提高工作效率的新资源。公众受益于首次出现在这些会议上的改进的治疗和其他科学进步。NIH在2002年和2006年对这一特定研究会议的支持一直是使他们能够将参加会议的好处扩大到更多和更多样化的受众方面的关键。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R13 application requests support for a conference entitled North American Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medical Research to be held at the Minneapolis Hilton Hotel on May 12-15, 2009. This conference is sponsored by the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) which represents 39 medical schools in the U.S. and Canada with programs focusing on complementary therapies and models of integrative medicine. The site host for the conference is the University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing, a member of CAHCIM. This research conference is intended to showcase the highest quality, peer-reviewed, original research in this field. Its faculty is composed of leaders from the conventional and complementary medical research communities of both the United States and Canada, including federally and provincially funded investigators, directors of integrative centers, educators and policy researchers. Expert reviewers of original abstracts are nominated by a process governed by the Consortium's Research Steering Committee. This is the fourth in a series of highly successful conferences with similar focus, audience and peer-review process that were originally co-sponsored by Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The most recent conference (and the first sponsored by the Consortium) was held in Edmonton, AB, Canada in May of 2006. This conference is meant to showcase by way of keynote and plenary presentations, posters, symposia and workshops, original scientific research involving complementary and integrative medical 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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Public scientific meetings where new peer-reviewed work is presented and discussed are crucial for the advancement of all research disciplines as they allow scientists, regulators, funders, researchers-in-training and commercial entities to come together in a focused setting to explore data from important recent work in their respective disciplines, address issues of common concern, and inspect new resources that offer to make their work more efficient. The general public benefits enormously by way of the improved therapeutic and other scientific advances that make their first appearance at these meetings. NIH support of this particular research meeting in 2002 and 2006 has been critical in allowing them to extend the benefits of attending to a larger and more diverse audience.