N. American Integrative Medicine Scientific Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本R13申请要求支持将于2009年5月12日至15日在明尼阿波利斯希尔顿酒店举行的北美补充和综合医学研究会议。本次会议由综合医学学术健康中心联盟（CAHCIM）主办，该联盟代表美国和加拿大的39所医学院，重点关注补充疗法和综合医学模式。会议的主办地点是明尼苏达大学灵性与治疗中心，它是CAHCIM的成员之一。本次研究会议旨在展示该领域最高质量、同行评议的原创研究。其教师由来自美国和加拿大传统医学和补充医学研究界的领导组成，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。原始摘要的专家审稿人由财团研究指导委员会管理的程序提名。这是由哈佛医学院（HMS）和加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）共同主办的一系列非常成功的会议中的第四次，这些会议的焦点、听众和同行评审过程都非常相似。最近的一次会议（也是第一次由该联盟主办）于2006年5月在加拿大AB的埃德蒙顿举行。本次会议旨在通过主题演讲和全体会议演讲、海报、专题讨论会和讲习班，展示涉及补充和综合医学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介绍通过同行评审过程选出的原创研究和适度的小组报告。在该领域的领导者将被邀请提供主题演讲，并主持同步研究报告。

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.