Presenter: John Weeks (moderator) Panelists: Mark Hyman, MD; Patrick Hanaway, MD; Melissa Young, MD; Jamie Starkey, Lac
Format: MP4 Video file of Slides and Audio

Has integrative medicine reached a tipping point in U.S. health and medicine? National news from the Cleveland Clinic, known for decades as a quality pace-setter in U.S. medicine, has put the question on the lips of many. Time magazine was among those widely publicizing the Clinic’s March 2014 decision to work with Crane Herbs and others to create the USA’s first medical system-based Chinese Herbal Medicine Clinic. News followed of a significant collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic and the Institute for Functional Medicine involving Mark Hyman, MD and Patrick Hanaway, ND, international leaders in that field. Soon after, the health system announced a new Center for Pediatric Integrative Medicine. All three ventures followed Cleveland Clinic’s long-standing integrative medicine center. In this session, leaders of these diverse initiatives will explore the context in which the medical system made these moves, describe present challenges and outcomes, and share future directions in this remarkable embrace of integrative health and medicine concepts and practices.????

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain historic and cultural factors that led to these initiatives.
2. Explore challenges, breakthroughs and present barriers to optimal access and use of these services.
3. Describe characteristics of these innovations that are easily portable or are clearly site specific.
4. Discuss whether these developments merit consideration as a tipping point or merely as a progressive aberration.