Official launch of the Canadian CAM Research Fund

IN-CAM and the Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada are excited to announce the creation of the CANADIAN CAM RESEARCH FUND (CCRF) to ensure continuity of funding opportunities for Canadian CAM researchers and research trainees. The CCRF is now accepting research application submissions.

This competition will replace IN-CAM’s Pilot Research Funding Competition and will be separate from Holistic Health Research Foundation’s Massage Therapy Research Fund competition and other research competitions. This fund will be administered through the Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada.

Application Deadline:December 15, 2009. Grant recipients will be announced in March 2010.

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Filed under: Announcements, Funding, Integrative medicine, Research news , CAM, Canadian CAM Research Fund, grant competition

Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public

Watch the Video Webcast of the Summit

On February 25-27, 2009, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened the “Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public,” in Washington, DC to advance the science, understanding and progress of integrative medicine. The Summit brought together distinguished researchers, practitioners, and leaders from multiple sectors to present the vision, challenges, evidence base, and opportunities for integrative medicine to improve health care in the United States.

Integrative medicine is described as orienting the health care process to create a seamless engagement by patients and caregivers of the full range of physical, psychological, social, preventive and therapeutic factors known to be effective and necessary for the achievement of optimal health.

Filed under: Conferences, Integrative medicine