Announcements May 23, 2022 Lanay Mudd, Ph.D. Melissa Trevino, Ph.D. Are you a student or predoctoral or postdoctoral candidate wanting to develop your research career? Are you a principal investigator (PI) on a National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)-funded award wanting to enhance the diversity of your lab by recruiting and supporting trainees from diverse backgrounds? Are you looking to re-establish your career in research?  May 20, 2022 Lanay Mudd, Ph.D. Sara Rue, M.P.H. Are you a complementary and integrative health practitioner or clinician-scientist? Are you looking for ways to gain more research experience in your field? Or are you a funded investigator looking for ways to incorporate practitioners with clinical training in complementary and integrative health practices into your research team or training program? |
 May 2022 Clinical Digest Evidence does not support using complementary health approaches instead of proven medical management for asthma; however, when used in addition to proven medical management, complementary health approaches that help people with asthma manage stress, anxiety, or depression might help them feel better and improve their asthma control. This issue of the digest provides a summary of the current research on several modalities that have been studied for asthma, including acupuncture, breathing techniques, meditation, yoga, omega-3 fatty acids, probiotics, soy isoflavones, and vitamin D. |
 The percentage of office visits at which physicians provided or recommended complementary health approaches more than tripled between 2005 and 2015, according to a new analysis of data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). The analysis, which was performed by investigators from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and published in a recent issue of theJournal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine,also showed that visits that included complementary health primarily involved patients who were age 45 or older, female, non-Hispanic white, and covered by public or private health insurance. |
Resources for Researchers Highlighted Funding Opportunities Upcoming Events June 1, 2022- 11:00 a.m. ETto June 2, 2022 5:15 p.m. ET; Virtual Please join us online for the 2022 Annual NIHPainConsortiumSymposium on Advances inPainCare symposium, Pain Management Through the Lens of Whole Person Health. Panel sessions will focus on different aspects of the overall theme: 1) Complexity of pain and the interplay of comorbidities, 2) Integration of whole person tools and approaches, and 3) Implementation of whole person approaches to pain management. The symposium will also feature a "Patients Perspective presentation and a Junior Investigator session. There will be an opportunity to network online with other pain researchers. Keynote addresses will be given by: - Dr. Tracy Gaudet, former executive director ofthe Whole Health Institute and former executive director of the Veterans Health Administrations (VHA) National Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation
- Dr. Ruth Wolever, interim director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt University
Members of the extramural scientific community, the NIH scientific community, health care providers, and the public are invited to attend. There is no cost to participate. Registration is required. June 9, 2022, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. ET; Virtual The next NIH Pain Consortium webinar in our series on NIH programs and policies in support of pain research will focus on clinical trials.During this session, NIH staff will discuss clinical trial design, applying for grants with clinical trials, oversight of clinical trials, and the Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network (EPPIC-Net). There is no cost for these webinars, but attendees must register in advance.The webinars will be recorded and after each one concludes it will be archived on the NIH Pain Consortium Website.  June 23, 2022, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. ET; Videocast Speaker:Elissa Epel, Ph.D.,Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry;Director, Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center;Director, Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment (COAST) University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA Given the rising levels of global stress, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness and mental health problems are on the rise, adding to the burden of chronic diseases. Understanding and promoting emotional well-being (EWB) may yield another important strategy to accomplish this and significantly improve peoples health. Little has been known about how to best increase EWB in ways that also improve health. Dr. Epel is principal investigator of a new research network to develop resources and a multidisciplinary community of scholars focused on researching EWBits links to physical health, interventions that could best increase it, and the processes that explain how EWB impacts health. Dr. Epel will review findings and lessons learned from clinical trials, the lab, and the field. |
In case you missed it... Did You Miss the May 18 Lecture, "Well-Being and the Economic Burden of Disease: What Are We Learning From Cancer Survivors?" You can view an archive video of this talk byMichelle Y. Martin, Ph.D. |
