Mind Body Medicine at Portland State University [MBMPSU] provides practical opportunities for integrating mind body medicine into your life, career, and the world. We do this by developing events and publications for you to connect with others and learn about the science of Mind Body Medicine.
A Definition of Mind Body Medicine:
Mind Body Medicine (MBM) focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior, and on the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, and behavioral factors directly affect health. (National Institute of Health)
Ways to participate in MBMPSU:
• Attend Lectures/ events
• Be on a committee (marketing, visiting lecturer, newsletter)
• Write in newsletter
• Be an executive officer (many opportunities!)
…you can participate occasionally or help lead the organization.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Join us to explore career possibilities that incorporate the Mind Body perspective. Please email mbmpsu@pdx.edu for info or to participate in the fair. You may also comment below to contact us. {registration forms available soon for booths}
This is our 1st Career Pathways fair and we hope to learn from this one to expand it to become an annual event. Ideas and feedback from community are wanted, welcomed and needed.
{APRIL}Mind Body Medicine at PSU [MBMPSU] Discussion Group
April 6th | 12 noon – 2:30 | SMSU 323
Dr. Claire Wheeler MD PhD will be here to talk about her personal practice as a doctor and psychologist practicing Mind Body Medicine.
[Click to see her website] Dr. Wheeler is a professor here at Portland State. She is also on faculty at the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington D.C. Her book 10 Simple Solutions to Stressis a must read if you are interested in health and wellness.
Want to be part of running/ creating MBMPSU?Open Job Positions
Marketing Chair: Work with the board to oversee promotions for MBMPSU events. Attend monthly business meeting. We would like a innovative self motivated person who has tons of wonderful ideas. Ideally marketing chair has some design experience/ skill and will delegate promotional activities so they don’t get overwhelmed.
Secretary: Take notes at business meetings, therefore attend business meetings! Up-date wordpress blog and my.pdx.eduStudent group web page.
Compensation:good Karma and resume builder, like all positions with MBMPSU
