Multiple Lenses: a Clinician’s View. Part 1: Immune Disorders

COURSE DETAILS

8 Class Series Beginning on January 7

Class meets on Thursdays from 9 – 11am EST

This course will cover a number of different types of immune system disorders. Each class will focus on 1 or 2 case studies as the backbone to understanding a particular aspect of immunity.  Both Chinese and Bio medical immune physiology will be addressed in each case. We’ll go through important aspects of intake, evaluation, working diagnosis, and treatment planning. Treatment with Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture as well as nutraceuticals as appropriate will be discussed in detail. We will also look at the standard of care in Western medicine and, in certain cases, how to make decisions about when and how to work with the patient’s WM care.

Class Topics

1 & 2) Respiratory & Gut – Immune system at the entrances.
3 & 4) Liver/ GB and bile- Their relation to immunity and heat-clearing.
5 & 6)Spleen/pancreas, appetite – Metabolism and immune disorders.
7 & 8) Adrenal effect on immunity and autoimmunity.

Class Dates
^{All classes held Thursdays from 9 – 11am EST & Available as Recordings}

January 7, January 14, January 21, January 28, February 4 -course break- February 18, February 25, March 4

Each two hour class will include case presentation, diagnosis, treatment strategies and treatment. There will be a discussion of physiology and pathology of the affected system. If the patient has been advised to use some other type of treatment, we will discuss the way in which this impacts treatment, and how this might be handled in a specific instance, including risk assessment. To some extent, we will follow the treatment / result / revised treatment / result through a some length of time, depending how important this is to the specific case.

Each class will allow some time for Q & A.

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My background includes a BA in Asian Studies with Japanese language study. Later, I worked and studied Chinese at a private Chinese language Institute in NYC. I graduated from Tristate Institute in 1984, having also apprenticed with Dr. John Shen for a year. At the end of my apprenticeship with Dr. Shen, I met and assisted Dr. Leon Hammer when he came to NYC to stand in with Dr. Shen’s patients when Dr. Shen went abroad to lecture. Subsequently, I spent several summers in apprenticeship with Dr. Hammer in his Saratoga Springs practice. I maintained a relationship with Dr. Hammer both as a lifelong student and a colleague.

I attended Ted Kaptchuk’s 3 year program in Chinese herbal medicine through Tristate (1983-1986). In 1987 I attended the International Advanced Herbal Medicine course at Xi Yuan Hospital in Beijing. After the course ended, a colleague and I arranged to stay on for specialized study in the GI and GYN departments. In 2002 I completed an MS degree in Human Nutrition at the University of Bridgeport. Other education includes many courses in acupuncture, herbal medicine and nutrition over many years.

Upon graduation from Tristate in 1984 I began a private practice and have been in private practice in NYC since that time. I was an instructor and clinical supervisor at Tristate for several years. When Pacific College opened in NYC in 1991, I joined the faculty, developed syllabi and taught both Oriental medical theory and Chinese Herbal Medicine, after which I went on to offer postgraduate courses in the NYC area. These included both lecture courses and small group supervision classes. Over the years, I have lectured at Touro College, the New York Botanical Gardens, Tristate Intensives, Pacific Symposium, Columbia University Medical School, New York College regarding the use of herbal medicine for menopausal symptoms through the Rosenthal Center at Columbia.

Political work includes participation in the effort to create a legal pathway to licensure in New York. This took 9 years and many people’s efforts to accomplish. I testified before the White House Commission for Alternative and Complementary Medicine (2000). and participated in the creation of the first NCCA exam.