Education
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Creative Approaches to Wellness and Healing
Ping Ho, MA, MPH, is the Founder and Director of UCLArts and Healing, an organization which facilitates the use of arts-based tools for mind-body healing in the community as a vehicle for empowerment and transformation. This speaker lectured for the UCLA summer course MED 180, "Introduction to Integrative East-West Medicine for Health and Wellness," which took place from June 23-August 1, 2014.
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UCLA Summer Courses: Brain-Mind-Wellness
Experts from UCLA's world-renowned Center for East-West Medicine and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior (including leaders from both the Mindful Awareness Research Center, and the Tennenbaum Family Center for the Biology of Creativity) offer a series of courses focused on bridging multiple disciplines to understand the links among brain, mind and wellness.
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MED180 Intro to Integrative East-West Medicine, Summer 2014
In Summer of 2014, UCLA Center for East-West Medicine will be offering MED180: Introduction to Integrative East-West Medicine for Health and Wellness from June 24 - July 31, 2014 (6 weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays).
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A Look Inside - Anthro 157: Perspectives on Complementary/Alternative & Integrative Medicine
In the fall of 2012, UCLA Center for East-West Medicine Researcher Sonya Pritzker, Ph.D., L.Ac. taught the upper-division special topics course, Anthro 157: Perspectives on Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine.
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On Using Acupuncture for HIV to Improve Quality of Life
Through an ethnographic study done at West Hollywood non-profit Being Alive, acupuncture was found to improve the quality of life of HIV-positive individuals.
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Holism vs. Reductionism: Comparing the Fundamentals of Conventional and Alternative Medicinal Modalities
Patient health care in today’s world is subjected to the biases of the care provider, yet many biomedical doctors have foregone traditional medicine in favor of what are termed Complementary Alternative and Integrative Medicine (CAIM) modalities.
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Roads Less Traveled Out of the Dark
Complementary and alternative therapies treating depression are being widely integrated with traditional Western treatment, most commonly in the “cognitive feedback” category. This article discusses current and prospective CAM modalities for treating depression and other psychiatric disorders.
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The Assimilation of Tibetan Medicine in Western Culture
More and more funds are being allocated to research in mind/body relationships, how stress affects the body, and how positive thinking can affect well-being. These are basic principles in TM, incorporated in the practice for thousands of years. Given this, is not unexpected that Tibetan medicine is transitioning from an obscure medical system, to a desired alternative to biomedicine. However, there are still issues to be addressed.
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Balanced Qi and Wagging Tail: Chinese Medicine and the Animal Kingdom
As complementary and alternative medicine continues to grow in the United States, veterinary acupuncture is also earning a place in the medical field, in both the medical community and the community of pet-owners who opt for alternative options.
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MED180: Student Testimonials
The goal of MEDICINE 180 is to transform the student's thinking about medicine and health. Below are testimonials from past students who have taken the course and would like to share their experiences.
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