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Pathways To Health and Healing: Green Medicine Agenda

Monday, April 14, 2008
 
Hour Event
7am  Registration and continental breakfast
7:45am  Welcome and Introduction, David P. Rakel, MD, and Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz 
8am  Unsustainability or Health: A Question Challenging Competence More Than Values, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, MD, PhD 
9:15am  Confronting Global Warming: Grave Risks Yet Enormous Health Opportunities, Jonathan A. Patz, MD, MPH 
10:30am  Refreshment break 
11am  Common Low Level Contamination of Food and Water: Impact on Development, Learning and Immunity, Warren P. Porter, PhD 
Noon  Lunch 
1pm  Pollution in People: Is Your Body a Superfund Site?, Rian Podein, MD 
1:45pm  Body Burden Detoxification: Mind and Body Approaches to Reclamation, Luke Fortney, MD 
2:30pm  Refreshment break 
3pm  Sensitivity and Health: The Canary in the Coal Mine, Adam Rindfleisch, MD, MPhil 
3:45pm  Creating Healthier Buildings, Robin Pharo, BS 


Tuesday, April 15, 2008
 
Hour Event
7am  Registration and continental breakfast
7:55am  Welcome and Introduction, David P. Rakel, MD 
8am  Neuroplasticity, Happiness and Health: Transforming the Mind and Changing the Brain and Body, Richard Davidson, PhD 
9:15am  A Whole Life: A Mindful Approach to Sustainable Well-being, Donal G. Maccoon, PhD 
10:15am  Refreshment break 
10:45am More Skills, Less Pills: Activating Internal Resources to Improve Health, Janice Singles, PsyD and Shilagh A. Mirgain, PhD 
Noon  Lunch 
1pm  Lessons from Lead: The Precautionary Principle is Key to a Healthy World, Bruce P. Barrett, MD, PhD 
2pm The Autism Spectrum: Genetic and Environmental Interactions and Implications for Cause and Treatment, Lucille R. Marchand, MD 
3pm  Refreshment break 
3:30pm Emerging Infectious Diseases, George C. Mejicano, MD
4:30pm Epigenetics: How Environment (physical and emotional) Can Trump the Genetic Code, David P. Rakel, MD