Event Details
Title: “Integrative medicine group visit technology to empower diverse patients with chronic pain.“
Presenter: Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH,
Director of Primary Care Research at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge health alliance. Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at University Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
Date: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024
Time: 8:00 am EST
Location: via Zoom
Cost: Free. CME credit available. Please email your name, degree title and institution if applicable to [email protected] during the event to claim credit.
Presentation Description:
This talk will discuss the evolution of a patient centered technology platform called our Our Whole Lives an E health toolkit – OWL. This technology was created with a patient advisory group and clinical input from providers. The talk will track it’s 10-year history of research and how OWL has changed over the decade. The purpose of the technology is to support an integrated Medical Group visit and provide home practice platform for patients with chronic pain and other chronic conditions.
Learning objectives:
- Discuss how to use participatory research methods in technology development.
- List 2 ways to assess a patient with chronic pain’s level of technology literacy.
- Compare and contrast how technology builds community for patients with chronic pain
Speaker Bio:
Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at University Massachusetts Chan Medical School. She directs the group medical visit program in the Center for Integrated Primary Care. She has joined the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance as the director of Primary Care Implementation Research. In addition to completing her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, she also completed a three-year Clinical Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research and Faculty Development at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Gardiner, with funding from NIH and a PCORI grant, focuses her research on mindfulness, technology, and health disparities and increasing access in low income patients. Current research is focused on the adaptive role of Medical Group Visits combining mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and a medical group visit to support health behavior change and reducing pain and stress. Dr. Gardiner is leading the implementation of this medical group visit model nationally and provides training on medical group visits around the United States.
She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers on chronic pain, health disparities, technology, dietary supplements, stress, and integrative medicine in underserved patients. She also has an interest in clinician stress and resiliency. As a researcher in mindfulness, she became a certified meditation teacher completing a 2 year training with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, a Mindful Self Compassion teacher completing training with Chris Germer, and has led MBSR classes. She is also a certified facilitator for Ron Epstein MD and Mick Krasner MD’s Mindfulness Practice program.
Hear Dr. Gardiner describe an overview of her Grand Rounds:
