2019 Lecture
Interim Osher Center Director and Research Director, Dr. Peter Wayne will deliver this year’s annual lecture for the Dr. Khusman V. Sanghvi Memorial Lectureship on the Mind-Body Interface in Health and Healing.
Dr. Wayne will present his talk “Bringing the Body Back Into Mind-Body Medicine Research’. Dr. Wayne joins the ranks of previous presenters including Dr. Margaret Chesney (2017) Dr. David Eisenberg (2016), Dr. Dave Rakel (2015), Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer (2014), Dr. Benjamin Kligler (2013) and Dr. Aviad Harimati (2012). See below for past lectures.
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Event Details
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm ET
Medical Sciences Building
Kresge Auditorium
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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Background
The Dr. Khushman V. Sanghvi Memorial Lectureship on the Mind-Body Interface in Health and Healing is an annual endowed lectureship exposing health care professionals and interested community members to the importance and benefit of complementary medicine. It was created through a generous gift from University of Cincinnati cardiologist Vijay Sanghvi, MD, and his daughters.
Sanghvi, an adjunct professor in the division of cardiovascular diseases at UC, provided the department of family and community medicine with seed funding to launch this lecture series in dedication to his wife, Khushman Sanghvi, also a physician, who lost her battle with cancer.
“She strongly believed in the interface between the mind and body—the power of the mind to influence the body,” he says, adding that she used complementary techniques throughout her treatment. “The mind has healing powers, but the question is how can we integrate and leverage the natural processes that our mind and body possess into traditional medical practices?
“As physicians, we’re not widely exposed to integrative and complementary practices—only medicine and surgery—and we often don’t have time to educate ourselves on these applications. If we can hear from these experts on how to use and understand these practices, we can educate ourselves and enhance our patients’ experiences and ultimately be more effective at what we do.”
Sian Cotton, PhD, associate professor in the department of family and community medicine, faculty director of the lectureship and an outcomes researcher who has studied the benefits of complementary and integrative medicine, says there is a need for this type of education in medicine to improve the way future physicians practice and care for themselves.
“Conventional medicine focuses on pharmaceuticals and surgical applications to help patients, but complementary and alternative medicine practices, like relaxation or meditation, stress management techniques, healthy nutrition and lifestyle and other methods, have been shown to help both chronic and acute conditions. In medical school, students are not introduced to these concepts as a way to enhance treatment and improve overall wellness.
“This lectureship will help to bring awareness to the evidence for these integrative medicine techniques and will feature the latest practices and research to inform and also to improve patient and physician wellness.
“We’re hopeful that this lecture series, possible because of Dr. Sanghvi’s gracious gift, will expose our community and our institution to a new and growing side of medicine—one focused on prevention and wellness and on using all modalities to enhance health and well-being,” Cotton continues. “Many patients are using these techniques anyway to cope with conditions.
“As medical practitioners, we need to be aware of the evidence behind these techniques and learn ways to incorporate them into our practice and into our own lives for best possible outcomes. We’re excited for this opportunity to educate and learn more about integrative medicine here at UC and UC Health.”
Past Lectures
Nov. 3, 2017, noon in Kresge Auditorium – Dr. Margaret Chesney presented “Integrative Medicine: Fad or Frontier? Implications for Improving Public Health”
Sept. 23, 2016 – “Nutrition and Mindfulness in an Era of Obesity and Diabetes – Might Teaching Kitchens Serve as a Catalyst for Personal Transformation?” with David Eisenberg, MD, Director of Culinary Nutrition and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Eisenberg is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his fellowship training in general internal medicine and primary care and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Video RECORDING of 2016 lecture
June 9, 2015 – “The Clinician Effect: How You Trump Pills”This link opens in a new window. by Dave Rakel, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin and Director of UW Integrative Medicine Program. Dr. Rakel is board certified in family medicine, holistic medicine and sports medicine. He is co-editor for the Textbook of Family Medicine and Editor for Integrative Medicine, now in its third edition.
May 8, 2014 – Cultivating Wellbeing in Our Lives and Communities by Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN. Dr. Kreitzer is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Minnesota and Founder/Director of the Center for Spirituality & Healing. Her recently published book with co-author Mary Koithan, Integrative Nursing, provides a step-by-step guide to assessing and clinically treating conditions through a variety of combined methodologies including wellness, lifestyle enhancement, and nutrition.
May 24, 2013 – Mind -Body Approaches in Pain Management: Challenge and Opportunity by Benjamin Kligler, MD, Chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, Research Director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing, and Vice Chair, Department of Integrative Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center.
May 2012 – The Imperative for Incorporating Mind-Body Medicine in the Training of Health Professionals by Aviad Haramati, PhD. Dr. Haramati is a professor of physiology and medicine and co-director of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Graduate Program at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. His talk focused on the scientific basis for using mind-body medicine therapies to improve stress management as well as foster self-awareness and self-care to reverse burnout in physicians and “erosion of empathy” in medical students.