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Vinny Minichiello
Vinny Minichiello
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Biography: Vinny Minichiello, MD, ABoIM, is a board-certified family medicine and integrative medicine physician serving as associate professor within the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. He also serves as the Academic Integrative Health Fellowship Co-Director and Education Lead at the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UW-Madison. He completed medical school at the University of Massachusetts, and both family medicine residency and the Academic Integrative Health Fellowship in Madison. During fellowship, he also pursued medical acupuncture training and mindfulness teacher training. Vinny's research has focused on developing, facilitating and evaluating mindfulness training programs in medical education and integrative health equity. He has served as national co-course director and faculty for the VA's Whole Health in Your Life course, Whole Health for Pain and Suffering course, and Whole Health for All: Social Determinants of Health course, facilitating education of VA healthcare professionals in self-care, integrative health, and medical culture transformation. Vinny finds joy in spending time with his wife and two daughters and in regular practice of Chen style Tai Chi.
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Benjamin Smith
Benjamin Smith
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Biography: Benjamin P. Smith, LMT, BS, Wellness Education, Research, and Training Coordinator, Huntsman Cancer Institute Wellness and Integrative Health CenterBenjamin Smith is a Wellness Education, Research, and Training Coordinator for the Wellness and Integrative Health Center at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute. In his role, he supports massage therapy operations within Huntsman Cancer Institute, and assists in developing educational programs, coordinating quality improvement projects, and coordinating clinical research related to massage therapy mechanisms of action. As a licensed massage therapist, he provides integrative manual therapy care for both inpatient and outpatient populations at the cancer center. His work is dedicated to advancing evidence-informed integrative health practices to improve patient outcomes in a hospital-based setting.
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Selim Sheikh
Selim Sheikh
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Biography: As Medical Director of the University of Utah Osher Center for Integrative Health, Selim Sheikh, DO, MBA, DipABLM, FAAFP facilitates collaboration between lifestyle and integrative programs and services across the health system to improve patient and physician wellness and foster opportunities for discovery and advancement in clinical practice. Clinically, he specializes in osteopathic manipulative medicine, lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine, and family medicine. He also serves as Co-Director of the Health Promotion and Integrative Health Pathway of Excellence and Course Director of Manual Medicine for the University of Utah School of Medicine. He received his DO from William Carey University, MBA from West Texas A&M University, and completed his family medicine residency training at The Ohio State University.
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Daniel Cherkin
Daniel Cherkin
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Biography: Daniel C. Cherkin, PhD (Epidemiology), is emeritus senior scientific investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (formerly Group Health Research Institute) and Affiliate Professor in Family Medicine at the University of Washington where he serves as Director of Research with the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.For over 30 years, Dr. Cherkin's research has focused on identifying more effective strategies for responding to the needs of the many persons with chronic back pain whose pain has not responded to conventional medical treatments. He has conducted numerous randomized clinical trials evaluating conventional approaches (e.g., patient education, shared-decision-making, cognitive behavioral therapy) and complementary and alternative medical therapies such as chiropractic manipulation, acupuncture, massage, and mindfulness meditation for low back pain. This research highlighted the importance of viewing back pain within a broad bio-psycho-social context in contrast to the largely biomedical view of back pain which has been prevalent for many decades. Because of the complexity of non-specific back pain, no specific treatments have been found highly effective, and it has become increasingly clear that a broader patient-centered "systems" approach will be required to better meet patients' needs.
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Iman Majd
Iman Majd
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Biography: Dr. Iman Majd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is Board Certified in Integrative Medicine, Family Medicine, and Acupuncture. He is recognized as the first physician at UW Medicine to successfully develop a model that integrates acupuncture and integrative medicine consultations within primary care.Dr. Majd recently served as the Chair of the Board of Commissioners of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) and currently presides as the President of the Medical Acupuncture Research Foundation (MARF). He also serves as the Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UW.A long-standing advocate for integrative medicine and health at both the national and international levels, Dr. Majd has collaborated with national organizations on initiatives designed to make integrative medicine more accessible to all patients. His teaching philosophy focuses on translating academic knowledge into practice and equipping the next generation of healthcare providers with the skills necessary for a data-supported, person-centered approach to health and well-being.Dr. Majd has contributed to various research studies in the fields of integrative medicine and acupuncture, including his research on auricular acupuncture for pain management in group settings, funded by the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has also explored the use of Chinese herbs for symptom management in COVID-19 patients and the application of acupuncture for pain management in patients with Long COVID.In his practice, Dr. Majd employs an integrated East-West approach to health, combining the knowledge and wisdom of both Eastern and Western medicine to educate, collaborate with, and empower his patients on their journey to optimal health.
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