North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine

On Thursday, May 25, 2006, over 600 people were welcomed to the city of Edmonton and the start of the three-day long research conference sponsored by the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, a U.S. non-profit corporation with 32 member schools from the US and Canada, with programs in complementary and integrative medical research.  An international organizing committee chaired by Consortium President, Susan Folkman, PhD, of the University of California-San Francisco, had spent the previous year and a half planning an event comprising 5 keynote addresses, 30 workshops, 12 plenary sessions comprised of 48 presentations, 4 poster sessions displaying over 200 posters, and a full day of pre-conference intensive workshops. 

• View the abstracts presented at the conference