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Integrative Approach to Bird Flu, AIDS, Cancer, Lifestyle Medicine

“WHO is supporting the conference on Integrative Medicine and global co-operation in healthcare at the Royal College of Physicians on 17-18 March 2007”.

The conference attracts delegations from China, Japan, South East Asia, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Austria apart from UK organisations including the Prince of Wales Foundation for Integrated Health. The Deputy Director-General of the WHO will be highlighting the necessity for international collaboration to deal with modern infectious diseases such as Bird Flu, SARS, AIDS at the roundtable debates on the issues.

Experts from all over the world will be presenting their clinical and research papers on the integrative approach in medicine and healthcare. Diseases such as cancer, heart diseases, metabolic syndrome and lifestyle medicine East & West will be discussed.

Amongst the keynote speakers are:

Dr. David L. Heymann M.D.,Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication, World Health Organisation

Mr. David Tredinnick MP, Chairman, UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated and Complementary Healthcare (PGICH)

Aaron Kenneth Ward-Atherton, Lord of Witley & Hurcott - Worcestershire, Patron of the Integrative Therapies Unit Christie Hospital NHS

Prof. Man Fong Mei, Chairman, Chinese Medical Institute and Register (CMIR), Vice-chairman, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies

Dr. Michael D Peake, Chair, UK Lung Cancer Coalition, National Clinical Lead, DoH Cancer Programme,

Dr. Tai-Ping Fan M.D., Head of Angiogenesis Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Prof. John Qunhao Zhang M.D. PhD, Research scientist, Harvard Medical School

Mr. Ian Brownhill, Programme Director, The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health

Prof. Chen Keji M.D., Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of TCM

Mr. Mike O’Farrell, Chief Executive of the British Acupuncture Council

Prof. Huang Guangwu M.D. PhD, President, Guangxi Medical University, P.R.China.

Ms Debbie Shaw, Research Scientist, Guy’s Thomas Hospital, UK

Dr. Stephen KH Aung M.D., OMD, PhD, President of the College of Integrated Medicine, Canada

Dr. Harvey Zarren M.D. F.A.C.C., President, Integrative Medicine Alliance, USA.

Dr. Terry Chappel M.D.,President, International College of Integrative Medicine, USA

Prof. T. Chiang Lin, PhD J.P, National President, Federation of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Societies of Australia

Prof. Cao Kaiyong M.D., President of the International Society of Chinese Andrology, China

Prof. Gerhard Litscher MSc PhD MDsc, Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia, Medical University of Graz, Austria

Prof. Dr. Fritz G. Wallner MSc PhD, Vienna University, Unit for Innovation & Extraordinary Research

Prof.Jeremy Farrar FRCP DPhil OBE, Professor of Tropical Medicine, Director of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Viet Nam

What kind of medicine and healthcare will we have in the future? NHS reform in global perspective? Come and debate the integrative future of medicine.

Further details please contact conference organising committee