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Areas of interest: Medical anthropology, end of life palliative care, integrative medicine
Publications
Reimagining integrative medicine fellowship core competencies with a health equity lens.
The American journal of medicine
Development and Initial Validation of Mindfulness-Based Pain Reduction (MBPR) in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain.
Journal of pain research
"May we be the bridge and boat to cross the water": Community-engaged research on metta meditation.
The American journal of orthopsychiatry
Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching: A Call to Action to Address a Research Gap for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Journal of integrative and complementary medicine
Intervention for the Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms to Reduce Caregiver Stress: Protocol for the Mindful and Self-Compassion Care Intervention for Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia.
JMIR research protocols
A Qualitative Examination of Perceptions of Mindfulness Among Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Americans: Implications for Cultural Adaptation of Mindfulness-Based Interventions.
Global advances in integrative medicine and health
Integrative Health Equity: Definition, Principles, Strategies, and Reflections.
Global advances in integrative medicine and health
The Reliability of Rating via Audio-Recording Using the Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Teaching Assessment Criteria.
Global advances in integrative medicine and health
Preventing Depression Relapse: A Qualitative Study on the Need for Additional Structured Support Following Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
Global advances in integrative medicine and health
What Do Placebo and Nocebo Effects Have to Do With Health Equity? The Hidden Toll of Nocebo Effects on Racial and Ethnic Minority Patients in Clinical Care.
Frontiers in psychology
A 4-Month Whole-Systems Ayurvedic Medicine Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention Is Feasible and Acceptable for Breast Cancer Survivors: Results of a Single-Arm Pilot Clinical Trial.
Global advances in health and medicine
Experiences of Advanced Breast Cancer Among Latina Immigrants: A Qualitative Pilot Study.
Journal of immigrant and minority health
Integrative Palliative Care: A New Transformative Field to Alleviate Suffering.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Students' response to a Massage & Meditation medical school course elective.
MedEdPublish (2016)
Call for Special Focus Issue Papers: Integrative Palliative Care.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
End-of-Life Concerns and Experiences of Living with Advanced Breast Cancer among Medically Underserved Women.
Journal of pain and symptom management
Vulnerable Patients' Psychosocial Experiences in a Group-Based, Integrative Pain Management Program.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Integrative Palliative Care: Enhancing the Natural Synergy Between Integrative Health and Palliative Medicine.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Implementing an Inpatient Acupuncture Service for Pain and Symptom Management: Identifying Opportunities and Challenges.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
Integrative Health: An Interprofessional Standardized Patient Case for Prelicensure Learners.
MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources
Integrative Medicine and the Imperative for Health Justice.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
The impact of intramural grants on educators' careers and on medical education innovation.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Perceptions of interprofessional teamwork in low-acuity settings: a qualitative analysis.
Medical education
Correlating traditional Ayurvedic and modern medical perspectives on cancer: results of a qualitative study.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
The International Congress for Educators in Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
Explore (New York, N.Y.)
Innovation and collaboration: the First International Congress for Educators in Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
Explore (New York, N.Y.)
Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection
Series in Medical Anthropology. Rutgers University Press
Creating an ideal social and behavioural sciences curriculum for medical students.
Medical education
"I'm sitting here by myself ...": experiences of patients with serious illness at an Urban Public Hospital.
Journal of palliative medicine
Encouraging scholarship: medical school programs to promote student inquiry beyond the traditional medical curriculum.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Why doctors choose small towns: a developmental model of rural physician recruitment and retention.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Patients' interactions with physicians and complementary and alternative medicine practitioners: older women with breast cancer and self-managed health care.
Integrative cancer therapies
Use of focus groups in multi-site, multi-ethnic research projects for women's health: a Study of Women Across the Nation (swan) example.
Ethnicity & disease
Assessing students' socio-cultural knowledge frameworks through concept.
Medical education
Minority faculty voices on diversity in academic medicine: perspectives from one school.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Use of complementary and alternative medicine during the menopause transition: longitudinal results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.
Menopause (New York, N.Y.)
A novel clinical-trial design for the study of massage therapy.
Complementary therapies in medicine
Cross-sectional analysis of specific complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by racial/ethnic group and menopausal status: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN).
Menopause (New York, N.Y.)
Student 'moles': revealing the hidden curriculum.
Medical education
Relationships among older patients, CAM practitioners, and physicians: the advantages of qualitative inquiry.
Alternative therapies in health and medicine
Integrative medicine and culture: toward an anthropology of CAM.
Medical anthropology quarterly
Ethnic differences in use of complementary and alternative medicine at midlife: longitudinal results from SWAN participants.
American journal of public health
Alternative therapies used by women with breast cancer in four ethnic populations.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Pediatric complementary and alternative medicine use: physician-patient communication is vital.
The Western journal of medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine use among women with breast cancer.
Medical anthropology quarterly
Disclosing complementary and alternative medicine use in the medical encounter: a qualitative study in women with breast cancer.
The Journal of family practice
Refugee stress and folk belief: Hmong sudden deaths.
Social science & medicine (1982)
Ethnomedical pathogenesis and Hmong immigrants' sudden nocturnal deaths.
Culture, medicine and psychiatry