Program-at-a-Glance

As of February 8, 2010
subject to change

THURSDAY, March 18  Pre-Conference Workshops        

8:00AM - 9:00AM  Registration
Lobby 

9:00AM - 12:00PM "Acupuncture Under Attack: How Do We Respond Using the Current Evidence Base?"
Speakers: Hugh MacPherson, PhD, MBAcC, University of York, UK, Department of Health Sciences; Robert Davis, MS, L.Ac, Acupuncture Vermont; Andrew Ahn, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Osher Institute; Ryan J. Milley, MAcOM, LAc, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine

2:00PM - 5:00PM "From Needle Insertion to Neural Cascade: What Can Brain Imaging Tell Us About Acupuncture Mechanisms?"
Speakers: Richard E Harris, PhD, University of Michigan; Vitaly Napadow, PhD, Martinos Imaging Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Norman Kettner, DC, Logan College of Chiropractic/University Programs

2:00PM - 5:00PM "Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: Focus on Traditional Chinese Medicine"
Speakers: Susan Wieland, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine; Eric Manheimer, MS, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine; Jianping Liu, MD, PhD, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine Center for Clinical Research and Evaluation

FRIDAY, March 19

7:00AM - 8:00AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 

8:00AM - 8:30AM Welcome and Overview
Rosa Schnyer, DAOM, LAc, Co-President, SAR 

8:30AM - 9:30AM Keynote lecture: “What is Translational Research?”
Daniel Clauw, MD, Director of Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan 

9:30AM - 10:00AM Break 

10:00AM - 12:00PM Symposium 1: “From mechanisms to outcomes: Understanding the effects of acupuncture treatment components”
Chair: Vitaly Napadow, PhD, LAc, Martinos Imaging Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Speaker List:

• Elizabet Stener-Victorin, RPT PhD, Associate Professor, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiologfy, Goteborg University, Sweden, “Clinical Efficacy and potential mechanisms of action of acupuncture in polycystic ovary syndrome – the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age”
• Richard E Harris, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Department of Anesthesia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA  “Functional Neurochemistry of Acupuncture in Chronic Pain: molecular messages from translational trials”
• Jan Schroen, MSc, OMD, The Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Netherlands, “Using systems biology to explore correlations between biomarkers and TCM diagnoses”
• Helene Langevin MD,  Research Associate Professor, Department of Neurology University of Vermont.  "Connective tissue link to musculoskeletal pain pathophysiology: relevance to translational acupuncture research"

12:00PM - 1:30PM Lunch   

1:30PM - 2:30PM Keynote lecture: “Progress in Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine” Josephine Briggs, Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine/NIH 

2:30PM - 3:00PM Break 

3:00PM - 5:00PM Symposium 2: “Bridging basic science and effectiveness trials: Thechallenge of designing effective sham controls – a missing link”
Chair: Richard Harris, PhD, LAc, University of Michigan

Speaker list:

• Ted Kaptchuk, OMD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Lecturer on Social Medicine, Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, MA
  “Does Sham Acupuncture have an Enhanced Placebo Effect? Questions of Assay Sensitivity in RCTs.”
• Karen Sherman, PhD, MPH, Senior Scientific Investigator, Group Health Research
  Institute, Seattle, WA, “What clinical trials of acupuncture for low back pain have taught us about acupuncture's effectiveness: implications for developing sham controls”
  Jongbae Park, KMD, PhD, L.Ac, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation  "Non-Penetrating Sham Control: Its 10 year Experience?”
• Konrad Streitberger, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Heidelberg, "Invasive and non-invasive sham acupuncture - Experiences from randomized controlled trials"
  

5:30PM -7:00PM Poster Session 1: Wine and Cheese Reception 
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SATURDAY, March 20

6:45AM - 7:30AM  Qigong with Peter Wayne 

7:00AM - 8:30AM  Registration and Continental Breakfast 

8:30AM - 9:30AM Keynote lecture: "Lessons learned from the acupuncture trials in Germany; future research strategies", Professor Claudia M. Witt, MD, Charité University, Berlin 

9:30AM - 10:00AM Break 

10:00AM - 12:00PM Oral Presentations A (Concurrent Sessions) 

Basic Science Research Presentations:

Chair:  Peter Wayne, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Tai Chi and Mind Body Research Programs, Harvard Medical School, Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies

• "Involvement of supraspinal opioid receptors in electroacupuncture-produced anti-hyperalgesia in rats with peripheral inflammation"
  Lixing Lao, Aihui Li, Jiajia Xin, Yu Zhang, Ke Ren, Ming Tan, Brian M Berman and Ruixin Zhang
• "Serotonin 1A receptors are involved in electroacupuncture alleviation of chemotherapy-induced pain in rats" 
  Ruixin Zhang, Yu Zhang, Aihui Li, Jiajia Xin, Ke Ren, Ming Tan, Brian M Berman and Lixing Lao
• "Spinal mechanisms underlying electroacupuncture-evoked reversal of chronic pain"
  Gonzalo Flores, Kelley Kitto, Carrie Wade and Carolyn Fairbanks
• "Neuroprotective mechanism of acupuncture in parkinson’s disease : a proteomic analyses of the substantia nigra and striatum"
  Seung-Nam Kim, Seung-Tae Kim, Songhee Jeon, Youn Jung Kim, Younbyoung Chae, Hyejung Lee and Hi-Joon Park
• "Study on the electric-acupuncture therapy for depression by 1H-MRS exam in hippocampus and prefrontal lobe"  
  Duan Dongmei
• "Demonstrating lower skin impedance at acupuncture points compared to non-acupuncture sites may be influenced by distance between recording sites"
  Agatha Colbert, Steve Chamberlin, Adrian Larsen, Tran Thong, Heather Schiffke and William Gregory
• "Physiological changes of acupuncture on the blood flow using ultrasound Dopplerography"
  Ji-Yeun Park, Seungmin Lee Lee, Younbyoung Chae, Seung-Nam Kim, Song-Yi Kim, Hyejung Lee, Chang Shik Yin and Hi-Joon Park
• "Increases in blood flow and bioenergy markers produced by heat, massage, and topical herbal therapies" 
  Shin Lin, Vienna N. Nguyen, Wayland J. Wu, Nahal Nikroo, Jason D. Nguyen, Josh Quinones, Monica J. Lao and Joanna K. Fong

Clinical Research Presentations:

Chair: Ryan J. Milley, MAcOM, LAc, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Portland, OR

• "Using acupuncture and moxibustion in the management of cancer-related secondary lymphoedema" 
  Beverley de Valois, Teresa Young and Jane Maher
• "Integrative package for low back pain with radicular pain" 
  Jongbae Park, Joonshik Shin, Youngkwon Choi, Yousuk Youn, Sangho Lee, SeungRo Kwon, Hyangsook Lee, Manho Kang, InHyuk Ha, Jaehong Kim and Imhee Shin
• "Unexplained infertility treated with acupuncture and herbal medicine" 
  Jongbae Park, Myungia Kang, Sangseop Shin, Eunmi Choi, Sukyung Kwon, Hyosun Wee, Bonghyun Nam and Ted Kaptchuk
• "Acupuncture improves in vitro fertilization pregnancy rates - a retrospective chart review" 
  Lee Hullender Rubin and Michael Opsahl
• "Acupuncture Expectancy Scale: an instrument to investigate the behavioral mechanism of acupuncture care" 
  Jun Mao
• "Selecting Acupuncture Treatment for Hot Flashes; a Delphi Consensus compared with a Clinical Trial” 
  Terje Alraek, Einar Borud and Adrian White
• "How acupuncture is an 'Energy Medicine' and how this affects research design"
  Claire Cassidy
• "In vitro cytotoxic activity of arnebia indigo jade and pearl ointment in human papilloma virus (HPV)- associated cervical cancer cell lines" 
  Naomi Jay, Amy Johnson, Karen Smith-McCune, Margaret Takedo and Misha Cohen

12:15PM - 1:15PM Lunch Lecture: “Whole Systems Research: Concepts and Strategies”
Richard Hammerschlag, PhD, Dean of Research, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Portland, OR 

1:15PM - 1:30PM Break 

1:30PM - 3:30PM Symposium 3: “Assessing acupuncture effectiveness in the ‘real world’”
Chair: Hugh MacPherson, PhD, MBAcC, University of York, Department of Health Sciences, Heslington, York, UK

Speaker list:

• Peter Wayne, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Tai Chi and Mind Body Research Programs, Harvard Medical School, Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies “Tai Chi for osteopenia (low bone density): a pragmatic study”
• Richard Hammerschlag: “Traditional Chinese medicine for temporomandibular dysfunction: a whole systems multi-site trial”
• Hugh MacPherson: “Acupuncture For Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Effectiveness In Routine Practice”

3:30PM - 4:00PM Break 

4:00PM - 6:00PM Oral Presentations B (Concurrent Sessions) 

Basic Science Research Presentations:    

Chair:  Lixing Lao, Ph.D., LAc,   Professor, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

• "Functional brain connectivity in default mode and sensorimotor networks is modulated both during and after electro-acupuncture"
  Jieun Kim, Kyungmo Park, Lauren LaCount, Steve Cina, Jeungchan Lee, Di Ye, Yumi Maeda, Norman Kettner and Vitaly Napadow
• "Perception is reality: Similarity in brain response between phantom and real acupuncture - a fMRI study" 
  Kyungmo Park, Jieun Kim, Jeungchan Lee, Changjin Jung, Geonho Jahng, Ted Kaptchuk and Vitaly Napadow
• "Event-related fMRI for the Evaluation of Brain and Autonomic Response to Acupuncture"
  Vitaly Napadow, Jeungchan Lee, Steve Cina, Jieun Kim, Lauren LaCount, Yumi Maeda, Di Ye, Norman Kettner and Kyungmo Park
• "Manual acupuncture induced the transient heart rate reduction via cholinergic pathway in humans" 
  Kenji Imai, Sazu Yoshimoto, Hiroshi Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Tsuru and Hiroshi Kitakoji
• "Measurement of thoracolumbar connective tissue shear plane motion during whole trunk flexion and robotic acupuncture using ultrasound elastography" 
  Helene Langevin and James Fox
• "Changes in neuronal activity associated with needle insertion and needle stimulation: a study using magnetoencephalography (MEG)" 
  Aziz Asghar and MacPherson Hugh
• "Spatiotemporal-spectral dynamics of brain response to electroacupuncture" 
  Polly Dhond, Thomas Witzel, Norman Kettner and Vitaly Napadow
• "Combing model and data-driven approach to explore the neural basis of acupoint"
  Zusanli Peng Liu, Wei Qin and Jie Tian
• "Imaging the functional connectivity of the Periaqueductal Gray during verum and sham electroacupuncture treatment" 
  Carolyn Zyloney, Randy Gollub, Pete LaViolette, Ted Kaptchuk and Jian Kong

Clinical Research Presentations:

Chair: Misha Cohen, OMD, LAc, Clinic Director, Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, San Francisco, CA

• "Results from a randomized controlled trial of radiation prostatitis between naval medical center San Diego and Pacific College of Oriental Medicine" 
  Stacy Gomes and Brian Lawenda
• "The acupuncture on hot flashes among menopausal women (ACUFLASH) study: Observational follow up results at six and 12 months"
  Einar Kristian Borud, Terje Alrek, Adrian White and Sameline Grimsgaard
• "Qigong and exercise therapy for patients with chronic neck pain - Results of the QENA study" 
  Claudia Witt, Daniel Pach, Rainer Lüdtke, Anett Reißhauer, Stefan Willich and Rendant Daniel
• "Acupuncture for depression during pregnancy" 
  Rosa Schnyer, Rachel Manber, Deidre Lyell, Andrea Chambers, Aaron Caughey, Maurice Druzin and John Allen
• "A pragmatic randomized control trial examining the effectiveness of acupuncture in an acute care hospital setting" 
  Jeannette Painovich, DAOM, L.AC, M.A and Patricia Herman, ND, PhD
• "The impact of exercise and auricular acupuncture on free-living physical activity levels for people with chronic low back pain" 
  Suzanne M. McDonough, Ruth F. Hunter, Mark Tully, Deirdre M. Walsh, Sue Dhamija, Siobhan McCann, Dianne Liddle, Philip Glasgow, Charlotte Paterson, Gerard Gormley, Deirdre Hurley, Anthony Delitto, Jongbae Park, Ian Bradbury and David Baxter
• "Acupuncture is effective in reducing pain, attrition and mortality in HIV-infected men with peripheral neuropathy" 
  Samuel Shiflett and Gary Schwartz
• "Effect of acupuncture on allergen-induced itch and physiological skin reactions in patients with atopic eczema" 
  Florian Pfab, Johannes Huss-Marp, Vitaly Napadow, Andre Gatti, Jiang Fuqin, Georgios Athanasiadis, Johannes Ring, Heidrun Behrendt and Ulf Darsow

6:00PM - 7:30PM Poster Session 2: Wine and cheese reception  
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SUNDAY, March 21

6:45AM - 7:30AM Qigong with Peter Wayne

7:00AM - 8:30AM Continental Breakfast 

8:30AM - 12:00PM A Field Guide to Translational Tools: an interactive workshop divided into 3 sessions.  Welcome by Rosa Schnyer, DAOM, LAc, Co-President, SAR. Hosted by Robert Davis, MS, L.Ac., CEO and Co-founder, Stromatec, Inc.

1)      How to Build a Better Outcome Measure: Using translational tools to address research problems  (8:30AM – 10:00AM) – Accurately and objectively measuring the complex and dynamic interactions that occur during acupuncture is challenging. This session will include 7 ten-minute presentations from researchers who will share examples of how the innovative use of translational tools has improved their research.

• Helene Langevin, MD, Research Associate Professor of Neurology, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation; Director, Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine. - “Ultrasound imaging – Real-time Visualization of Needle/Tissue Interaction During Needle Insertion and Manipulation.” 
• Robert Davis, MS, L.Ac., CEO, Stromatec, Inc., S. Burlington, VT - “Acusensor – Real-time Quantification of  Acupuncture Needling Manipulations – including motion and force.” 
• Andrew Ahn, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School, Osher Research Center – “AD Biopotential Instrument - Obtaining Electrical Measures in Biological Tissue: Potential Applications to Acupuncture Research.”
• Shin Lin, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Integrative Medicine, University of California, Irvine. – “Single Square Voltage Pulse Method - Continuous Recording of Electrical Conductance at Acupoints during TCM Therapies. 
• Agatha Colbert, MD, Senior Investigator, Helfgott Research Institute, National College of Natural Medicine, Portland, OR  – “The Octopus and the AcuGraph - Skin Impedance Measurements at Acupuncture Points: a valid outcome measure?”
• Lisa Conboy, MA, MS, ScD, Research Co-Director, New England School of Acupuncture; Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Osher Research Center. – “MYMOP  - Measuring Therapeutic Success in the Clinic: a patient centered measure.”
• Rosa Schnyer, DAOM, L.Ac., Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin.  – “Integrating the Chinese medicine clinical reasoning process into research: TEAMSI-TCM, Challenges and Opportunities"

2)      Hold Me, Touch Me, Use Me: Hands-on interactive technology demonstrations (10:15AM – 11:30AM) – attendees will visit stations showcasing the tools featured in the Session 1. Attendees will be able to scrutinize, handle, and experiment with the tools. Researchers will be available to interact and answer questions.

12:00PM - 12:30PM Closing remarks
Richard Harris, PhD, LAc, Co-President, SAR  

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