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Schedule of Events for Northeast Ohio
May 23, 2013 - "Stressed? Tired? Burned Out? Using Holistic Health to Treat and Prevent" presented by Tamara Macdonald, ND, LAc.More information coming
Program Topics in the Works:
Raising a Holistically Minded Child (9/26/2013)
Rock-A-Bye Baby: Holistic Interventions for Sleep
For other events, refer to the
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Calendar Events are included from AHMA members only as space allows. To submit a calendar item on the NEO AHMA newsletter, please request a submission by emailing
NEO.editor@holisticmedicine.org
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Our Newsletter is electronically distributed seasonally (quarterly). Deadlines for items to the Newsletter Chair are as follows:
Spring edition:
April 15, 2013
Summer edition:
June 15, 2013
Fall edition:
August 15, 2013
We would like to enhance our articles, member highlights and calendar of events from our members. To submit:
Articles
Submissions are welcomed for consideration. They must pertain to holistic care and not exceed 150 words.
Member Spotlight
If you or someone you know should be featured in an issue of the newsletter, please let us know. We'd like a jpg head shot and an introduction not to exceed 100 words.
Calendar Item
We are able to include events from AHMA members as space allows. To submit an event on the calendar, please send the title, date, time, and location for the event with no more than a 50-word description by the deadline of the appropriate edition. Submit requests to NEO.editor@
holisticmedicine.org
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AHMA's New Website and Forum
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Check out the revised AHMA website at www.holisticmedicine.org
Members can post questions about clinical issues, share their recent publications/presentations & announce activities of interest. To get to Open Forums, log in.
On your profile page, look in left hand column for
Discussion Forums.
Click on that and you'll see the section for NE Ohio.
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Did you know?
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NE Ohio AHMA Board Meetings are open
to members
Please contact
if you are interested in attending. The next Board meetings are from 6:30 - 8:00 pm on Mondays, March 11, April 8 and May 20 at the
Cleveland Center for Conscious Living, 6611 Rockside Rd., Suite 215, Independence, OH 44131
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Looking for Interested Practitioners
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The Cleveland Center for Conscious Living in Independence, invites interested licensed practitioners to join us. We have an interior office available for full- or part-time use. Our suite and adjacent classroom are beautiful spaces. We attend to the energy of our space to create a peaceful context for healing and personal transformation. If you are interested in learning more about our group or the space, please contact Janel Volk Hubbard or call her at (216) 462-0526
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Are YOU ready to CONNECT?
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AHMA is taking a new direction in networking. We realize you are busy! Time is precious. If you want to build a 'team' of professionals that give your practice support without you personally having to be all things to all people, this should be what just what the doctor ordered!
Meetings are coming soon that will provide you an opportunity to share ideas for future networking events and to build a strong local community. Opportunities To Connect will be built into all future AHMA educational events.Bring your business cards. Connect with others providing holistic services. Share with them who you are. Find out who they are. We'll have an opportunity to grow our holistic practices together.
And if you are the kind of individual that likes to be on the ground floor of a movement so to speak. Join us in the planning stages. Our committee is looking for fresh ideas that will help our membership revitalize our holistic practices.
For more information contact Mary Ellen Derwis-Balaz
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Introducing Dr. Nancy Fazekas Grubb New Board Member
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 I believe that everyone has their own story that sets them onto their own journey of transformation and healing. I live vicariously by the "Koi Principle";
a koi fish will only grow to the size of the environment in which it lives. Seeking out and expanding my environment has assisted my personal and professional growth.
I chose medicine as a career in my early teens. My father was diabetic. I witnessed the complications of this disease and the lack of educational support available for him. Learning the behavioral patterns of the doctor-patient relationship by observing my own father, my ultimate choice for family medicine and later integrative medicine was to be a positive role model, as well as an empathetic listener in the doctor-patient relationship.
My high school years were filled with honor studies, marching band and traveling abroad as an exchange student in Darmstadt, Germany. I graduated top of my class in 1981 from Maple Heights High School.
The 1980s were spent at Bowling Green State University earning a B.S. Chemistry degree in 1985. My medical education was completed at the Ohio State University School of Medicine in 1989. I completed my Family Medicine residency at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
The next 10 years started my personal journey that was yet unknown to me. During that span, I had 4 children, relocated 5 times and had 3 different family medicine practices in 3 different states.
My first practice was in rural Minnesota from 1992-1994. I recall those as my Marcus Welby years as I practiced all aspects of primary care, including Obstetrics. My next "place of employment" was with an HMO in Havre de Grace, MD from 1994-1996. My final status in the 90s was as an assistant professor in Family Medicine at The Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
Upon moving to Northeast Ohio in 2002, I chose an inactive clinical status to be home with my children as they adjusted to their new schools. Eight years were spent as the leader of two Girl Scout troops, Sunday school teacher, and clinic volunteer in the schools. It was during these years that my holistic approach to medical care piqued, mostly as a result of my son's ADHD struggles. I met all the Ohio State Medical Board requirements to gain a license in Ohio in 2010.
I first joined the AHMA organization in 2010 after hearing several presentations sponsored by AHMA at The Joseph-Beth Bookstore in Legacy Village.
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| Members Making News |
Cleveland AHMA Member Leads
UH's Integrative Medicine Department  For the past year, University Hospitals has been offering integrative medicine services to employees, patients, and the community through the Connor Integrative Medicine Network. Under the leadership of Medical Director and AHMA member Francoise Adan, MD, CIMN offers a variety of services, including integrative psychiatry, acupuncture, massage therapy, myofascial release therapy, reflexology, music therapy, Reiki, and life coaching. The department has enjoyed rapid growth and the acupuncture program alone has grown from one to five acupuncturists and one to three locations in less than a year. CIMN also offers classes in meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, music therapy and Ayurveda at Ahuja Medical Center and other UH locations. UH is one of the only health care systems in the country to offer classes in Ayurveda, the 5000-year old lifestyle science from India, and in January, CIMN will add Ayurvedic consultations to its services at Ahuja. For more information about CIMN services and classes, call (216) 285-4070 or click here
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| Recent TEDMED Event a Success! |
 A most stimulating discussion was held at the NE Ohio's TEDMED meeting on November 15, 2012. We had 15 people contributing to the discourse after each of three TEDMED clips. The TEDMED speakers were all from 2012, and you can go to YouTube and watch them yourself. Search for TEDMED 2012 or click on Joel Salatin, Jonathan Eisen, and Mark Hyman. The common theme of the clips was the interdependency we have with three very different sources for our survival, healing, and well-being. Salatin, an organic farmer, illustrated how the microbes in the Earth are essential for a healthy food source and how we destroy this teeming life form through our use of pesticides in farming. Eisen, a pioneer in microbial diversity, very graphically discussed how the microbes on us and within us are vital for health. He reviewed some current research occurring, including fecal implants, that have been life savers for many. The last speaker, Hyman, a physician dedicated to finding the root causes of chronic illnesses, was passionate that many medical conditions are truly a social problem. He believes that by changing the social structure, conditions such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease can be significantly reduced. The participants had great feedback about how these clips will impact them personally, as well as in their practice. There was a renewed call for AHMA to be a leader in building community to empower holistic practitioners in spreading the principles of Holistic Medicine that were illustrated by these inspiring speakers. Click here to view the Holistic Principles that are the source of our passions in holistic health care!
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Integrating the Spirit of Nature into Holistic Health
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Please Join Us For: Integrating the Spirit of Nature into Holistic Health
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Time: 6:00 - 8:15 p.m. Networking: 6:15 - 6:45 p.m.
Location: Cleveland Clinic Independence Family Health Center, 5001 Rockside Road, Crown Center II, Independence, Ohio 44131.
Register here
AHMA Members $10, Non-members $15
**Please park in the upper level of the parking deck. Lower deck is for CCF staff and physicians.
Bring flyers and business cards to exchange with others. We'll have a table to put them out. Networking event prior to the start of program.
Jackie Stevenson is the founder and CEO of Spirit of Leadership LLC, providing coaching, leadership and team building training and seminars for corporations and not-for-profit organizations through experiential learning with horses and nature and embodied intelligence. Jackie teaches at Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management Executive Development Program, the School of Applied Social Sciences and the Gestalt Institute. She is on the Weatherhead School of Management coaching staff and is a Board Certified Coach (BCC) She teaches and lectures in Israel, Germany, UK, Mexico, and throughout the United States. She works with individuals, groups, families and organizations. Jackie is the founder and director of the Lake Erie College "Experiential Learning with Horses: Developing Human Potential for Positive Change" professional development certificate program.
Neal Szpatura is a shamanic practitioner, writer, Tarot reader and intuitive consultant. He has studied with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and in independent study with its faculty, as well as with indigenous teachers from North and South America, Africa, and Australia. He teaches shamanic practice, dreamwork and intuitive development and works with clients on sacred path issues.
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Fatigue: A Debilitating Disorder for the Patient and
A Diagnostic Dilemma for the Practitioner
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The 2013 AHMA Conference in St. Louis
You've heard about it, now we've compiled all the information about this pre-conference and conference
AHMA's March Member News features the St. Louis Gateway Medical Conference in various ways. The best three reasons to go to the St. Louis Conference:- Exceptional speakers, including three AHMA presidents
- AHMA's pre-conference retreat, The Healer Within: Shamanic Breathwork™, co-led by Nita Gage and Molly Roberts. Nita is the former business partner of Lee Lipsenthal, with whom she developed the retreat course
- An opportunity to mingle with other holistic practitioners from around the country... anyone who's been to an AHMA conference before knows what a treat it is
Attendees can get 18.0 CMEs for the general sessions in 19 lectures. In addition to AHMA presidents Hal Blatman, Alan Gaby and Molly Roberts, notable lecturers include keynote speakers Daniel Friedland, Paul Cheney, James Gordon and Mimi Guarneri. AAEM is AHMA's conference planning and promotional partner. Their group hosts two days of pre-conference instructional courses, at the same time as AHMA's The Healer Within: Shamanic Breathwork™. All pre-conference workshops (courses, retreat) are approved for CME credits, 13 for AHMA's retreat and 14 for any one of AAEM's courses. Pre-conference registration is for April 17-18, Wednesday and Thursday. General sessions are Friday morning through Sunday afternoon Some helpful links:
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Scholarship Money Available for AHMA Conference
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Scholarship Money Available for Gateway Medical Conference
The NE Ohio Board has scholarship money available for a student/medical resident to attend the conference. You will be required to write a summary of your experience for the local NE Ohio newsletter.
Interested parties should contact Doug Moore, Ph.D., current NE Ohio Chapter president with the following:
- Name
- Email
- Phone
- What program you are in
- Where you are in completing the program
- A paragraph about your interest in Holistic Medicine
Deadline for application is: Saturday, March 30.
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Proposed Regulations Affect Acupuncturists in Ohio
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The laws regarding the practice of Acupuncture in Ohio are being revised. Interested members can click here to see the revisions
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Eden Energy Medicine Foundations Class
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Presenting a one-year comprehensive course of study of Eden Energy Medicine at Cleveland Center for Conscious Living
from May 16 thru May 19, 2013.
The class will be followed quarterly by three more 4-day weekends. Register Now!
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In Memoriam
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In Memoriam:
Carol Dombrose died in her sleep on March 17.
Since 1974, she operated Angel House in Strongsville, and was well-known in the holistic community.
By Jerome Masek
As a former newspaper reporter, I have written hundreds of obituaries for people I never knew.
Now, AHMA has asked me to write a salute to Carol Dombrose. Why is it so difficult? Perhaps it is because Carol herself was so refreshingly different. She believed strongly in angels, so she became one herself.
She was always helping others, counseling others. She never appeared to be stressed. She always smiled, and her inner peace filed the room wherever she went. She was outgoing and friendly, and never said a bad word about anyone. Her life was one of service to others. She turned her entire house over to the holistic community.
I knew Carol for about 3 years, and last saw her a week before her death. She was talking to a friend after an Angel House event, and I heard her say how much she was enjoying her life.
Two postings on Facebook sum things up nicely:
"Carol made such a difference in my life....such a beautiful person, with an addicting smile, and filled with a child's joyfulness."
"An angel traveled among us for a while and is now flying high!"
May a person who brought so much peace to others now experience it herself.
CAROL DOMBROSE MEMORIAL Thursday, March 21, 2013
Visiting hours: 4:00-8:00 PM
Service at 8:00 PM
Mandley-Vetrovsky Funeral Home
18871 Lorain Rd
Fairview Park, Ohio 44126
(440) 333-1331
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Welcome to New and Renewing AHMA Members We welcome the following new members to AHMA NEO Chapter! Sun Huang Gaylee McCracken, MD Scott L. Rose, DDS Maryann Wonson From October through January 2013 we thank the following for continuing to nurture our mission and vision for the future of healthcare by renewing their membership: Francoise Adan, MD Deborah Baynes, BS, RN, PA-C Jane Pernotto-Ehrman, MEd, CHES Susan Gruber, RN, BSN Jeanne Hall, QBT, HTC Michael Hasman, MD Edward D. Miller, MD, FACOG, ABIHM David Montgomery, MD, ABIHM Michael Pecenka, DDS, DAAPM Tobias Reid, JD, PhD Phyliss Ann Sepeta-Wissmann, MD Jodie Skillicorn, DO Sarah Spagnuolo, MD Leonard Torok, MD |
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