January 2010

Winter update coming soon!!!!!!

We are pleased to announce KIND BAR as MBMPSU’s newest sponsor.

[click here to see their site]

KIND BAR’S are healthy whole food bars that are gluten-free and have a low Glycemic index.They are “KIND to your body, your taste buds, & the world.”

TRY a KIND BAR at the next MBMPSU EVENT

___________________________________________________________________

Our friends at the Oregon Collaboration of Integrative Medicine are providing a forum for students from all systems of medicine and health to connect, share and learn to speak each other’s languages through www.StudentsforIntegrativeMedicine.org.

Upcoming Lecture: Monday| November 30, 2009 | 12:00-1:00 PM | Richard Jones Hall, Room 4320, OHSU | Adrenal Fatigue, NCNM student presenter – Kelly L. Raylinsky, ND3

November

November 20th: |7:30pm| Join us at the 5th Avenue Cinema to watch the movie you all voted for:

The Living Matrix

Living Matrix flyer

___________________________________________________________________

NCNM Admission Seminar cancelled

(it will be rescheduled after the New Year)

OCOM Admission Seminar THURSDAY

Fall 2009 Survey

New Fall Survey! Please take the time to participate in yet another survey! Thank you to those who have taken our past surveys- we take your answers and suggestions very seriously, and you have helped to make this group what it is today.For those who have not participated in one of our surveys before-don?t worry, they are short and usually painless.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kc_2bkp6QITxATCekrq6YCtA_3d_3d

Officer Positions Available

Greetings everyone! We are off to a great start this year.

Currently, we are looking for some more people to join us in building the group and helping with some events this upcoming year.

The positions currently available are:

• Secretary
• Marketing Specialist
• Event Committee positions

If you are interested in growing with the group, learning more about mind body-medicine, and building your resume, download the application and scan and email to mbmpsu@pdx.edu or turn in to our office in the Urban Center (4th floor in School of Community Health). Our office hours are Friday 1p-3p. We also have a mailbox labeled “Mind-Body Medicine” in SMSU in front of the SALP office.

We look forward to working with you!

Fall 2009

Our 2nd year of Mind Body Medicine is here.

Please see our membership page to join our listserv to receive our up-dates, our quarterly survey, and to learn about opportunities. We have many events in the works this year.

Learn * Connect * Heal

August 2009

RE S EARCH GRAND ROUNDS
Thi s is a f ree presentat ion, open to the communi ty.




Friday September 11, 2009
1 – 2 PM, OCOM Clinic Room B
10541 SE Cherry Blossom Drive, Portland, OR 97216-2859




Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN
Founder and Director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Twenty-five years ago, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) was developed at the University of
Massachusetts by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It is now taught in schools, prisons and boardrooms as well as hospitals
and clinics around the globe. In this talk, Dr. Kreitzer will discuss the MBSR research program at the
University of Minnesota and will highlight recent results from a 5 year NIH clinical trial with solid organ
transplant patients. She will also discuss methodological issues commonly encountered in conducting
mind/body research and will offer practical guidance on ways to build robust interdisciplinary research
teams.
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine’s Research Grand Rounds (RGR) is an initiative of Acupuncture Practitioner
Research Education Enhancement (APREE), a grant funded by the NIH/National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine. RGR is a seminar series that examines the challenges in the design and implementation of
research, especially in the field of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM). In contrast to hospital based grand
rounds, which focus on clinical care, OCOM’s Research Grand Rounds focus on issues of clinical research.
A B O U T M A R Y J O K R E I T Z E R
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN is the founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the
University of Minnesota. This interdisciplinary center coordinates integrative health and medicine programs and
initiatives in the Medical School, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy and other units throughout the Academic
Health Center. Dr. Kreitzer earned her doctoral degree in health services research and her masters and bachelor’s
degrees in nursing. She is currently the co-PI on several grants, including a five year NIH (NINR) clinical trial of
mindfulness meditation with solid organ transplant patients, and an NIH (NCCAM) trial on mindfulness meditation
for caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients.
For Further information, contact Sue Fleishman, Director of Research Education at 503.253.3443 x 161.
BUILDING A PROGRAM OF MINDFULNESS-BASED
STRESS REDUCTION RESEARCH: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

Summer 2009

Please watch our site for events in the community and planning meetings for next fall.

Food Inc. Trailer

Career Pathways Fair: Thank you to all who participated and attended the fair. It was a fabulous event!

A recent article in the Oregonian:

May 2009

May June Newsletter

[click here]

Events

{May} Career Pathways Fair May 27th | 12 noon – 2 pm | Park blocks | fair poster

Come and explore ways to incorporate MBM into your career. We will have schools and professionals for you to talk to.

Mind Body Medicine for Women in Transition (MBMWIT) Project

This month we will begin our yoga classes that will be held 1-2x/ moth. We will also be starting a garden project.