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National Institute of Health Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture

November 3-5, 1997

Bethesda, Maryland


Selections from the brochure describing this most important meeting:

"To address the most important issues regarding the American use of acupuncture, the NIH has organized this 2 and 1/2 day conference to evaluate the scientific and medical data on the uses, risks and benefits of acupuncture procedures for a variety of conditions. The conference will bring together national and international experts in the fields of acupuncture, pain, psychology, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehavilitation, drug abuse, pulmonary, health poicy, epidemiology, statistics, physiology, and biophysics as well as represenatives from the public."

The consensus statement will address the following key questions:

  • What is the efficacy of acupuncture, compared with placebo or sham acupuncture, in the conditions for which sufficient data are available to evaluate?
  • What is the place of acupuncture in the treatment of various conditions (for which sufficient data are available), in comparison with or in combination with other interventions (including no intervention)?
  • What is known about the biological effects of acupuncture that helps us understand how it works?
  • What issues need to be addressed so that acupuncture may be appropriately incorporated into today's health care systems?
  • What are the directions for future reseach?
  • Primary sponsers: NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and the NIH Office of Medical Applications of Research.

    Speakers: Wayne Jonas MD., John Ferguson MD, David Ramsey DMD Phil D, Lorenz Ng M.S. R.Ac., Ted Kaptchuk OMD, Joseph Helms MD, Kevin Ergil Lac, Patricia D. Culliton MA Dipl. Ac, Richard Hammerschlag PhD, David Lytle PhD, Ji Sheng Han MD, Brian Berman MD, Daniel Cherkin PhD, Steve Birch, Gary Kaplan DO, Lixing Lao PhD, Judy Schlay MD, Abass Alavi MD, Bruce Pomerantz MD PhD, Andrew Profitt PhD, Margaret Naeser PhD Lac, Janet Konefal PhD MPH Lac, David Diehl MD, Yu Jin, Xiao-Din Cao, MD PhD, Hannah Vance Bradford Mac, Alan Trachtenberg MD, David Ramsey DM D Phil.

    contact the conference at http://consensus.nih.gov


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