Event Date: March 1-3, 2012
Contact: visit the event website here for more info including registration information.
Location: Embassy Suites
West Palm Beach, FL
Description: The Annie Appleseed Project presents its 5th Annual Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies Conference. Our educational conferences bring important speakers to South Florida and the variety represent one of our most important beliefs — that there are MANY Paths to Wellness.
Come and find out more about yours!
For the 2012 meeting, the start time will be 2PM on Thursday, March 1.
We are going to adopt the focus of First Do No Harm a topic Ann Fonfa, our president has been speaking on and presenting posters about all throughouth 2011-2012. It is an important reminder to all of us that conventional cancer therapy, even when effective, is way too toxic. That toxicity is all-too-casually accepted. That's wrong.
We intend to have a panel on insurance issues and CAM. Look for more information on that soon.
Breast Cancer Symposium (Breakout) Speakers include:
Susan Silberstein, PhD "Breast Cancer: The Stress Connection"
Gwen Stritter, MD, Clinical Patient Advocate Tami Boehmer, Author, Breast cancer thriver
Daya Fisch, MS, CMT, specialist in Lymphatic massage
We will definitely have a Patient Panel since that is one of our most popular events. Participants currently include:
Florence Ferreira, metastatic breast cancer; Billy Lewter, prostate cancer; Tami Boehmer, Author, From Incurable to Incredible, John Cathcart young survivor Meduloblastoma, Jennifer Blue Rozman, caregiver/daughter of a woman who died of esophageal cancer, herself a breast cancer survivor.
Here are some of the speakers:
Dr. Keith Block, MD Medical Director, Block Medical Center, Skokie, IL.
Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Herzog, Dr. Herzog's Special Hospital for Integrated Oncology and Hyperthermia Center, Germany
Verne Verona, author Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods and Macrobiotics for Dummies
Julia Schopick, Author Honest Medicine
Gwen Stritter, MD "What is Evidence-based Medicine?"
Rodrigo Rodriguez, MD, International BioCare Hospital "Detoxification and dietary adjustment"
Burton Berkson, MD, MS, PhD Personal experience with LDN and alpha lipoic for various cancers and autoimmune disease
Lisa Wilson CHC, CFT "Green Juice Therapy"
Kimberly LaRue, LMT, YT Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Detoxification Panel: Presentations by a variety of practitioners and approaches including Jill A. Schneider, Circle of Life Holistic Programs, Elke Kappner, CHt, Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner, "Spiritual Healing: Purification of the Mind" more to come
Panel on CAM Research: Kelly Turner, PhD "Remission of Cancer: Theories from Healers, Physicians, and Cancer Survivors" Stephanos Pavlides, PhD "Autophagic Tumor Stroma of Cancer Metabolism - a new model for cancer" Associate Prof Jagat Kanwar Australian Experience in CAM Australia
Workshops:
Shash Broxson Laughter Yoga
Ed Weinsberg, PhD Not Tonight, Dear! Reigniting Intimacy and Sexuality after a Major Illness (a workshop for boomer and senior men and women)
Frank Ervolino, ND Community Acupuncture and how people can get integrative cancer treatment affordably
Toni Muirhead Certified Oncology Massage trainer "Massage for Caregivers" - a short Course
We are convening panels on insurance issues — we want to push for full insurance coverage for CAM and Integrative therapies. Otherwise they are not accessible to everyone. Compared to conventional therapies, most CAM is quite inexpensive unless it all comes out of your own pocket.
What is the point of insurance for many of us when it doesn't cover our healthcare needs? Let's start doing something about it.
Cost: Conference registration $209 (includes 5 organic meals and entry to all events). Registration rates will rise to $239 on December 10, rises to $279 January 10, and registration CLOSES on February 10! PLEASE REGISTER EARLY.
CEUs and CNEs will be available for many professions - $35 by check or cash at Registration table at the hotel.
HOTEL rooms cost $139+ tax. Early bird MUST reserve by January 16.
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