Courses

2026 Massage Therapy Symposium

Join us on campus March 6-7, 2026, for the annual Massage Therapy Symposium!

12.5 CE Hours, On campus. March 6-7, 2026. Friday, 1pm-7pm, Saturday, 8am-6pm., Auditorium

Land of Ten Thousand Lakes (LTTL) Symposium

Time Slot Activity Topics Presenter
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration and Refreshment Registration and Refreshment, Yoga, Mindful Walk Catherine Justice, DPT, C-IAYT
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Welcome and Centering
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM Keynote PAIN: Not a LiTTLe Problem Arti Prasad, MD, FACP
10:20 AM - 11:10 AM Panel Learning and Implementing Whole Person Pain Care Across Diverse Settings Sakshi Kaul, MD; Peter B. Scal, MD, MPH; Bruce Money, MD, FACP
11:25 AM - 12:15 PM Plenary Exploring Cultural Understandings of Pain in American Indian Communities Antony Stately, Ph.D.
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Breakouts
Please select your preferred breakout session below in the Agenda section 		Group Medical Visits: For Chronic Pain and Beyond Kate Shafto, MD, ABOIM & Susan Haddow, MD, IFMCP, ABOIM
Whole Person Approaches to Care for People with Substance Use Disorders Robert "Cole" Pueringer, MD & Catherine Justice, DPT, C-IAYT
Ketamine: Role in Managing Pain, Depression Brian A. Erickson, MD
How Early Relationships Shape Our Experience of Pain Helen G. Kim, MD
Whole Environments-Whole Children: MIDB's Flourish Initiative Cathy Jordan, PhD.
3:10 PM - 4:30 PM Keynote Seeing With New Eyes: Addressing Chronic Pain Through a Psychological, Cultural, and Spiritual Lens Tobi Fishel, Ph.D.
, Northwestern Health Sciences University