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日至20日在内华达州拉斯维加斯的绿色山谷牧场度假村举行的题为2016年国际中西医结合大会的会议。该会议由中西医结合学术联盟（联盟）赞助，该联盟代表美国60多个学术健康中心和卫生系统，加拿大和墨西哥，其方案侧重于教育、研究和临床提供补充疗法和综合健康模式。本次会议旨在通过主题演讲和全体演讲，海报，研讨会和研讨会，涉及补充和综合健康疗法的原创科学研究来展示。基础科学研究人员，临床和卫生服务研究人员将提出原始研究和通过同行评审过程中选择的温和的小组报告。将邀请该领域的领导人发表主旨演讲，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，该委员会由五个主要委员会的主席组成（计划，科学审查，财务，筹款和通信，与联盟的执行和指导委员会保持联系）。委员会的主席和成员是来自美国，加拿大和欧洲的传统和补充医学研究界的领导者，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。程序委员会负责确定会议的主题和选择主题发言人。将征求会议（专题讨论会、专题讨论会和讲习班）的建议，并征求研究摘要的提交。所有这些项目都将在科学审查委员会进行的一个过程中接受同行质量审查。大约有250名专家评审员被列入2014年大会以前使用的评审员库，去身份化的同行评审过程由科学评审委员会指导，并由联合会研究委员会提出建议。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AB省的埃德蒙顿举行的，有来自19个国家的近600名参与者。第二次是2009年在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯举行的，来自24个国家的约800名参与者参加了会议。第三届于2012年在俄勒冈州的波特兰举行，有来自30个国家的1，000多名参与者。最近一次会议是2014年在佛罗里达的迈阿密举行的，来自23个国家的大约700名与会者参加了会议。这次国际参与者的聚会旨在实现我们的既定目标，即加强世界各地综合医疗保健的研究。

 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.