The Center is actively conducting numerous integrative health projects, including those examining effects of meditation, tai chi, acupuncture, guided imagery, journaling, and Ayurveda in heart failure, myocardial infarction, hypertension, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and pain patients.
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The Center is collaborating with the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine on the research focus of its 16th Annual
Scripps Natural Supplements Conference, to be held in San Diego January 9-13, 2019.
The Center received new multi-year grant funding from the NIH/NHLBI to examine a novel, clinic-based exercise program to enhance cardiac patients’ adherence to cardiac rehabilitation. The new study is complementary to the Center’s existing UC San Diego Krupp Endowment funded project that is also examining a novel intervention for individuals with coronary heart disease, focusing on diet and lifestyle modification.
The Center recently completed a
longitudinal study on exposure to the pesticide glyphosate. The study, which was published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association, documents significant increases in glyphosate exposure in adults over the past 23 years. The study has rated in the top 1% for all media coverage of scientific papers, which has included
The New York Times,
Consumer Reports,
Time,
AAAS, and over 100 other news outlets.
The Center’s Director was listed in the
Huffington Post as one of the top 10 individuals positively affecting Integrative Medicine policy and research.
The Center recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Dr. Jiumei Pengcuo, DTM of Jiumei Tibetan Medicine Co LTD in Xining Tibet to conduct several clinical trials of classical Tibetan Medicine formulations to help advance our understanding of the clinical effectiveness of this ancient tradition.
The Center received grant funding from the UC San Diego Krupp Endowed Fund for the project Implementation of the UC San Diego–Cleveland Clinic Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation Diet and Lifestyle Program for Individuals with Coronary Heart Disease, which will develop a new diet and lifestyle modification program for individuals with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). The new program will rely on UCSD’s expertise to better address the triad of known modifiable behavioral and psychosocial factors that affect CHD morbidity and mortality, namely, diet, psychological distress, and physical activity.
The Center has initiated several new collaborations with the Osteopathic Center San Diego where we are helping to support the advancement of innovative clinical research directions on osteopathic medicine and osteopathic manipulative techniques.
The Center recently completed working with an international group of clinicians and scientists to host a
conference on Traditional Tibetan Medicine, which was held at Harvard Medical School October 6-7, 2017. The conference promoted dialogue among traditional Tibetan medical practitioners from Tibet, China, India, Europe, and the United States. The conference helped identify and establish future research and international collaboration efforts to carry forward the Tibetan medical tradition.
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The
Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley named the Center’s work on gratitude and heart health #1 in its “Top 10 Insights from the Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2016. The list was compiled by polling 350 researchers, asking them to name the findings from the science of a meaningful life that they considered most provocative, powerful, and influential for 2016.
Working with
UCTV, in August 2016 the Center helped launch a new channel. The ‘UC Wellbeing Channel’ is presented in partnership with the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Jiyo and the UC San Diego School of Medicine and focuses on a broad range of content relevant to wellbeing.
The Center is working closely with 7 other institutions, including the University of California San Francisco, Mount Sinai Hospital, Duke University, Harvard Medical School, Scripps Translational Science Institute, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, and the Chopra Center for Wellbeing to examine the effects of a traditional whole medical system on wellbeing. The randomized trial, the 'Self-Directed Biological Transformation Initiative' (SBTI), is examining whether the system of Ayurvedic medicine, including meditation and yoga practices, can influence biological markers of aging, alter cellular biology, genomics.
The Center is part of a new grant that enabled the
UC San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine to become a member of the
Bravewell Collaborative’s Patients Receiving Integrative Medicine Interventions Effectiveness Registry (PRIMIER) practice-based research network. The PRIMIER registry utilizes the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System (PROMIS) developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enable researchers to conduct innovative research by comparing the impact of various integrative therapies on patient-reported and clinical outcomes.
COE Director Paul Mills recently spoke at the 100th Anniversary Conference of the Men-Tsee-Khang Hospital and Research Facility in Lhasa Tibet. The institute was founded in 1916 by the 13th Dalai Lama to advance the practice of Tibetan Medicine, which is one of the world's oldest known medical traditions. Dr. Mills is organizing a follow-up conference on Tibetan Medicine and Mind-Body Health to be held at Mass General Hospital October 2017.
