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Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, April, 2005

MARCH 31-APRIL 3: THE HEART OF MEDICINE--Achieving New Levels of Meaning, Fulfillment, and Effective Healing in Your Practice @ Upaya Conference Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Features Larry Dossey, MD; Marty Sullivan, MD; Jeff Brantley, MD and Susan Head, PhD. Physician dissatisfaction is increasing; often we find ourselves out of touch with our original reasons for entering medicine. This course offers solutions by providing practical skills and personal strategies to reconnect with meaning in medicine and achieve new levels of satisfaction and effectiveness in even the busiest medical practice. This is a CME accredited educational activity for physicians co-sponsored by Innovisions Communications and the Institute for Healing in Society and Medicine. CONTACT: 919-419-0190; http://www.healinginmedicine.org

APRIL 1-3: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF LABORATORY TESTING in Seattle, Washington. Ann McCombs, DO and Mark Schauss, MBA, DB, will be leading a two-day seminar on how to utilize different laboratory tests available to the complementary health professional in a clinical setting. Guest speakers will provide information about the latest non-invasive tests with a special focus on assessing environmental toxins along with nutritionally focused protocols for effective detoxification. CONTACT: Carbon Based Corporation, 775-851-3337; http://www.carbonbased.com

APRIL 2: THE GENTLE WIND PROJECT "It's All About Relationships" Seminar in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Also APRIL 16 in Ojai, Califormia. Learn how Spiritual Psychology and individual personality characteristics affect all your relationships. APRIL 3: ADVANCED SEMINAR in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. For Gentle Wind Project Instrument Keepers who would like to go further with this work. Also APRIL 17 in Ojai, California and APRIL 20 in Loveland, Colorado. CONTACT: 207-439-7639; seminars@gentlewindproject.org; http://www.gentlewindproject.org

APRIL 2-3: INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF APPLIED KINESIOLOGY 100-hour CERTIFICATION COURSE @ Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, Washington (near Seattle). 8 monthly sessions through November. CONTACT: http://home.earthlink.net/~drtolhurst/

APRIL 2-3: MASTERING THE MASTER NEUROTRANSMITTERS in Chicago, Illinois. Learn to control serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine with pin point accuracy with non-prescription amino acids and non-invasive urinary neurotransmitter testing. Also, APRIL 23-24 in Los Angeles, California; MAY 7-8 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Presented by NeuroResearch. CONTACT: NeuroResearch, 877-626-2220; http://www.neuroreplete.com

APRIL 2-3: 9th ANNUAL SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON BOTANICAL MEDICINE in Tempe, Arizona, Speakers include Paul Bergner, Bill Mitchell, ND, David Winston, Kenneth Proefrock, ND, Cascade Anderson Geller, Tori Hudson, ND, Phyllis Hogan, and Jill Stansbury, ND. Topics include botanical therapies for West Nile fever, thyroid disease, cardiac health, Parkinson's disease, balancing health in midlife, treating migraine, cluster and tension headaches, plus a panel on natural alternatives to statins and other cholesterol lowering drugs, herb walks at the Desert Botanical Garden and much more. CE credits for health professionals. CONTACT: 800-252-0688; http://www.botanicalmedicine.org

APRIL 2-3: METAMARX IN-OFFICE SCREENING & ANALYSIS OF METABOLIC MARKERS SEMINAR with Stephen Stiteler, L.Ac., OMD, D.Hom. in Madison, Wisconsin, Also, APRIL 30-MAY 1 in San Antonio, Texas; MAY 21-22 in Denver, Colorado. CONTACT: 866-204-9026; http://www.terrainmed.com

APRIL 2-3: JAPANESE ACUPUNCTURE: SYMPTOMATIC CONTROL TECHNIQUES with Janette Baugh, M.Ac, L.Ac and Sachiki Nakano, M.Ac, L.Ac. CONTACT: Bastyr University CE, 425-602-3075; http://www.bastyr.edu/continuinged

APRIL 2-8: CONSCIOUSNESS & HEALING: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine @ the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California. A training program for physicians and healthcare workers. CONTACT: 707-779-8212; Research @ noetic.org; http://www.noetic.org

APRIL 5-7: HOMEOPATHIC APPROACH TO CANCER with Dr. A. U. Ramakrishnan in Carlsbad, California. CONTACT: Bonnie Marsh, ND, 760-436-5173; natldoc@cox.net

APRIL 6-12: NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOMEOPATHY 31st ANNUAL CONFERENCE @ Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. CONTACT: 877-624-0613; http://www.homeopathic.org

APRIL 8-9: ADULT HORMONE DEFICIENCIES--an Anti-Aging Course with Thierry Hertoghe, MD in Las Vegas, Nevada. A practical application of treating adult hormone deficiencies using bioidentical hormones. Sponsored by University Compounding Pharmacy, The Medical Educator Consortium, and Medical Center Pharmacies. CONTACT: 866-444-9475; http://www.ucprx.com

APRIL 9: TREATING CYSTS AND TUMORS WITH CHINESE MEDICAL QIGONG THERAPY with Jerry Alan Johnson, PhD, CONTACT: Bastyr University CE, 425-602-3075; http://www.bastyr.edu/continuinged

APRIL 9: PERSONALIZED METABOLIC NUTRITION SEMINAR with Dr. Harold J. Kristal & James M. Haig, NC in Phoenix, Arizona. The theory and practice of Metabolic Typing, a revolutionary nutritional system based on the observation that one of two fundamental homeostatic control systems dominates the metabolism of any given individual. By correctly identifying the dominant system (the Oxidative or the Autonomic), as well as the relevant subtype (Fast or Slow Oxidizer, Sympathetic or Parasympathetic), you will be able to recommend a diet and supplement regime specific to each individual's Metabolic Type. Also, JUNE 11 in New York, New York; AUGUST 13 in Chicago, Illinois; SEPTEMBER 17 in San Francisco, California; OCTOBER 15 in London (UK). CONTACT: 800-772-0646; fax 415-257-3519; pmn@bloodph.com