Bornstein Family Amphitheater
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
45 Francis Street, Boston, MA
All seminars are free and open to the public
Research Seminar Series
Bornstein Family Amphitheater
Archvies
2017
Archives
‘Medical Marijuana: Is the current research evidence sufficient to inform clinician decision making?’
Donald B. Levy, MD, Medical Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
‘Maximizing mind-body connections to minimize balance decline in aging and disease.
Thursday, November, 3rd, 2016
Bradley Manor, PhD
Director, Mobility and Brain Function Laboratory, Brain Fit Club, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
‘Effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary integrative medicine team in the treatment of chronic low back pain’
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Peter Wayne, PhD
Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
2016
‘Positive Psychological Functioning: An Enduring Asset for Healthy Aging’
Thursday, June 9th, 2016
Laura D. Kubsanzky, PhD, MPH
Director, Society and Health Psychophysiology Laboratory, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
‘Stretching, Connective Tissue, Fibrosis and Cancer.’
Thursday, May 5th, 2016
Helene Langevin, MD
Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
‘Mind-Body Medicine: The Effects of Stress and Mind-Body Medicine on Healthcare Utilization.’
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
James E. Stahl, MD, CM, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth: Geisel School of Medicine.
‘The Evolution of Chiropractic Research: From Mechanisms of Sublaxation to Comparative Cost-Effectiveness.’
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Matthew Kowalski, DC, DABCO
Licensed Chiropractor, The Osher Clinical Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; President of the New England Spine Institute.
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Application of Mobile Health Technology to Facilitate Long-Term Engagement in Exercise in Persons with Parkinson Disease’
Thursday, February, 4th, 2016
Terry Ellis, PhD, PT, NCS
Director, Center for Neurorehabilitation, Boston University; Director, American Parkinson Disease Association National Rehabilitation Resource Center.
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Bottom-up and Top-down Evidence for Mind-Body Medicine Approaches: From Genomics to Economics’
Thursday, January, 7th, 2016
John Denninger, MD, PhD
Director of Research, Benson-Henry Institute of Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
2015
‘How Super are the Newly Proclaimed Superfoods?”
Thursday, December, 3rd, 2015
Dr. Howard D. Sesso
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Director of Nutrition Research and Co-Director of Hypertension Research, BWH/HMS.
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Acupuncture for Women’s Health: Findings and lessons learned from Norwegian trials targeting postmenopausal hot flashes and recurring urinary tract infections.”
Thursday, November, 3rd, 2015
Dr. Terje Alraek
Senior Researcher, National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, University of Tromso, Norway.
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Studying the ‘Pep’ in your Step: Gait as a biomarker of age-related motor and cognitive health.’
Thursday, October, 1st, 2015
Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, PhD
Director, Center for the Study of Movement, Cognition and Mobility at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Genetics and the Placebo effect: The Placebome’
Thursday, September, 10th, 2015
Kathryn Hall, PhD, MPH
Associate Molecular Biologist, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
2014/2015
‘Minding’ our balance: How Tai Chi research is informing the interdependence of cognitive and motor skills in aging
Thursday, July 9th, 2015
Peter Wayne, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Vitamin D and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: Making Sense of the Evidence’
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Walk Away from Cancer? Evaluating Linking Physical Activity and Malignancy’
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
Jennifer A. Ligibel, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Pain in Arthritis: Why Does it Hurt?’
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
Yvonne C. Lee, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Pain Research, Division of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain’
Thursday, January 8th, 2015
Robert Saper, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Director of Integrative Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Boston Medical Center
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
2014
‘Pay Attention Now (It Could Change Your Brain): Clinical Efficacy and Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness’
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts
Director of Research, Center for Mindfulness
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘How’s Your Sleep? The Answer Might Surprise You’
Thursday November 13th, 2014
Matt T. Bianchi, MD, PhD, MMSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Sleep Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
WATCH VIDEO Presentation Here
‘Pursuing Placebo Effects’
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
Ted J. Kaptchuk
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Program in Placebo Studies in Therapeutic Encounter, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(Not video recorded, per speaker request)