naturopathy, herbal medicine, education, research
The NHAA 2023 Naturopathic Symposium is fast approaching, and I am fortunate to be a facilitator for two workshops, and also a coauthor on two research posters from Torrens Uni students and alumni.
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At the end of this week I attended the inaugural Natural Products Futures Forum, hosted in Ballina and Lismore by Southern Cross University’s National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine. I was attending as a representative of Torrens University, providing an educational perspective to what turned out to be a very successful weekend of brainstorming.
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Today naturopathic medicine was represented in a serious way in our nation’s capital. A breakfast event at Parliament House, Canberra, organised by the NHAA in conjunction with other collaborating partners, allowed us to officially launch the Health Technology Assessment for Naturopathy onto the world stage.
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Dementia is a chronic disorder, with increasing incidence throughout the world, and can cause significant agitation and distress in both patients and their families and friends. Antipsychotics are commonly prescribed to help manage agitation in the people, however these pharmaceuticals can cause undesired side-effects, which can sometimes be significant. Is there another option?
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Yesterday I was honoured to be the winner of the 2021 Bioceuticals Integrative Medicine Award for Contribution to Research & Education.
Continue reading “Wonderful honour – winner of the 2021 BIMA for Contribution to Research & Education”
Since the closure of Endeavour College’s Office of Research, Endeavour’s path and mine have slowly been diverging, and I am pleased to announce that today I started as Senior Learning Facilitator – Naturopathy & Western Herbal Medicine, at Torrens University Australia (TUA).
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In May 2018 we suddenly found out that herbs containing the natural constituent arbutin, including Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Bearberry) and Turnera diffusa (Damiana) had been restricted to prescription only Schedule 4 medicines by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). However the reasoning for such restriction was questionable, and so myself and Laura Dwyer – my research student – set out to determine if there was actually evidence that these herbs might be harmful. We just published the results of our review.
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Last weekend I was in Melbourne at the 11th Herbal & Naturopathic International Conference, hosted by the NHAA, where I was interviewed by Andrew Whitfield-Cook from FX Medicine, about my research on olive leaf extracts.
Continue reading “Andrew Whitfield-Cook & I Discuss Olive Leaf on FX Medicine”My paper entitled “Is this working? The importance of outcome measures in herbal & naturopathic practice” has just been published in the most recent issue of the Australian Journal of Herbal Medicine (Volume 27 Issue 3, September 2015).
Continue reading “Is this working? My new paper in the AJHM”With the removal of the Advanced Diplomas of Naturopathy, Western Herbal Medicine, Nutritional Medicine and Homoeopathy, from the Health Training Package at the end of this year, training providers initially thought they had 18 months to teach out students already enrolled in December 2015.
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