UF College of Medicine Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds
Where: Charter Theatre, 2nd Floor, Towers When: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Speaker: Milt Hammerly, M.D., vice president, medical operations and integrative medicine, Catholic Health Initiatives
Milt Hammerly, M.D., is vice president of medical operations and integrative medicine for Catholic Health Initiatives, the second largest Catholic health system in the United States, with 70 hospitals, 43 long-term care, assisted and independent living and residential facilities and five community-based health organizations in 19 states.
Hammerly is a board-certified family practice physician specializing in integrating complementary and alternative medicine with western medicine. He completed his undergraduate degree in kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. After graduating from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, he completed three years of residency training at Grant Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Ten years ago, Hammerly opened an integrative medicine practice in Littleton, Colo., with a team of more than 30 practitioners specializing in therapies ranging from acupuncture to yoga.
A highly regarded writer and speaker on the topic of integrating complementary therapies with western medicine, he believes that practitioners need to find ways to promote collaboration and cooperation between providers of CAM and conventional medicine. As an advocate for new concepts of disease management, Hammerly encourages providers of conventional medicine to consider best practices for the treatment of a condition that include CAM therapies in order to expand clinical protocols and treatment options to the benefit of their patients.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the relationships (overlap and interactions) between western medicine, CAM and preventive medicine
- Describe strategies to avoid iatrogenesisas, a subset of primary prevention
- Understand evidence-based measures to enhance patient adherence and behavioral change
- Identify a role for CAM practitioners in healthcare redesign
Accreditation: The University of Florida College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit: The University of Florida College of Medicine designates this education activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.