Transforming Health Care and Human Evolution: A Vision for the Future

1. Transforming Health Care and Human Evolution: A Vision for the Future Institute for Integrative and Energy Medicine 770 Massachusetts Avenue, POB 391108 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 825-3368

2. Vision • To provide leadership through law and social policy for the transformation of international healthcare toward compassionate and caring models, bridging the spectrum of reliable therapies across medicine and international healing traditions.

3. Mission • To help develop business (and its component legal, regulatory, ethical, and policy aspects), through research, education, and multidisciplinary collaboration, toward the creation of new models of health care that integrate complementary therapies and optimal healing environments into conventional care.

4. Operational Goals • Contributing expertise and resources to the major stakeholders in the current shift toward new models of health and healing across private enterprises, as well as government actors and non-government organizations; • Offering educational programs and resources toward the advancement of law, regulation, policy, and ethics, in emerging models of care across businesses; • Leading multi-disciplinary dialogue, with emphasis on law, regulation, policy, and ethics, concerning the potential for transformational shifts related to the development of integrative healthcare.

5. Stakeholders/People Served • Leaders in government • International organizations • Hospitals and other health care facilities • Physicians and allied health professionals • Complementary care providers • Professional health care associations • Scientists and researchers • Scholars in many disciplines • Attorneys, judges, administrators, and regulators • Patients and their families.

6. Terms • Integrative Medicine • Safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional care and complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies (such as chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy, and herbal medicine). • Energy medicine: • Diagnostic and therapeutic applications of healing modalities based on intentionality and consciousness (such as distance healing, intuitive diagnosis, laying on of hands, meditation, guided imagery and visualization, hypnotherapy, certain mind-body therapies).

7. Areas of Intervention • Local • Regional • National • Global • Models of healing that are: • Holistic • Pluralistic • Trans-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary

8. Activity Centers • Educational Programs • Ethics and Bioethics • Extramural Affairs • Government (and NGO) Policy • Institutional Policy • Legal & Regulatory Affairs • Resources

9. What We Hope to Accomplish • Monitor legal and regulatory developments in Integrative and Energy Medicine for the global public. • Create resources for hospitals, academic medical centers, educational institutions, governments and NGO’s setting policy. • Provide clear legal, regulatory, ethical, and policy guidance so that clinician and patient choices are respected within the therapeutic relationship and context of shared decision-making.

10. What We Hope to Accomplish • Promote legal protection for indigenous healers and traditional medicine, facilitating integration without co-option alongside the best of biomedicine. • Provide a comparative analysis of law and policy affecting CAM providers globally, such as the licensing and credentialing of non-biomedical healing professionals and other professional and regulatory barriers to accessing a full spectrum of healing modalities. • Bridge the legal, regulatory, ethical, and policy issues with the clinical, educational, and research aspects of delivering a full spectrum of therapies to patients.

11. What We Hope to Accomplish • Enhance education and curricular development in medical, allied health, and CAM professional schools regarding integrative and energy medicine. • Bring together leaders of medical, law, public health, CAM professional, and other schools as well as government officials, insurance companies, and others interested in these trans-disciplinary issues, and in public use of and access to these therapies. • Stimulate new ways of thinking about potential contributions to other disciplines including bioethics.

12. What We Hope to Accomplish • Facilitate access to healing therapies in the spiritual domain (such as guided imagery, visualization, and hands-on healing) to such areas of health care as end-of-life care, critical care, pain management, burn care, organ transplantation, and surgery. • Stimulate sound clinical research to integrate the discoveries of ‘inner technology’ with conventional medical systems as well as physics and other disciplines. • To further cross-disciplinary research among energy medicine, religion, psychology, sociology, and philosophy.

13. What We Hope to Accomplish • To transform the way our culture views the human energy field and its potential contribution to human transformation through all dimensions of health, private and public, micro and macro (including healthy balances and interactions in international affairs), and thus to be a force for human spiritual evolution across religions, philosophies, and medical systems.

14. Some Specific Goals • Legal & Regulatory Affairs • Monitor legislative, administrative, and judicial developments (e.g., licensing, malpractice, third-party reimbursement). • Disseminate information through resource center. • Develop White Papers to guide government and private institutions.

15. Some Specific Goals • Education • Develop curricular components on integrative and energy medicine for medical, nursing, CAM, and other educational institutions. • Consult to help develop ethical guidelines and practice parameters for accredited professional development in integrative and energy medicine. • Developing programs on role of intentionality and consciousness in the healing process. • Develop scholarly colloquia to explore common ground with the humanities.

16. Some Specific Goals • Extramural Affairs • Develop liaison with clinical research entities investigating energy medicine. • Consult to help develop research protocols, and clinical protocols for broad dissemination in different areas of care. • Research and analyze potential implications of energy medicine for bioethical questions such as genetic engineering and cloning, organ harvesting, and end-of-life care. • Develop collaborative projects in arena of health assessment and intuitive diagnosis.

17. Funded Research Projects (2004-05) • Decision Making About Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Children and Youth: Legal, Ethical, and Clinical Issues (funded by the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, Toronto). This two-year funded study brings an international perspective to health care law and policy involving physician and parental decisions around use of CAM therapies for children. Michael H. Cohen serves as U.S.-based Research Collaborator.  • Governmental Regulations for Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in Eastern and Western Countries (funded by the Ministry of Science and Research of Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany) . This project involves collaboration with international partners, including the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, on evaluation of regulatory frameworks for Traditional Chinese Herbal medicine. In this project, Michael H. Cohen serves as Consultant with respect to U.S. law.

18. Funded Research Projects • Important Conversations...Complementary and Alternative Medicine: What You Must Ask. This educational video will offer guidance to clinicians, seeking to advise their patients about use of complementary and alternative medicine. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Integrative Medicine Program, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute Cancer Patient Education Network Complementary and Alternative Medicine Task Force, is undertaking the project. Michael H. Cohen will address informed consent and malpractice issues in the video. • About Breast Cancer: CAM Therapies. This project involves an effort by the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, in collaboration with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, to update on-line information for breast cancer patients regarding safety and efficacy of complementary and alternative medical therapies. Michael H. Cohen will serve as contributor editor.

19. Thank You for Sharing Our Passion For making a difference In this world and the next By contributing to the paradigm shift Of transformation In human healthcare And evolution Through an Institute dedicated to Health Ethics Law Policy and Society.

20. More About Us • Please visit our website, www.ihelps.org, for updates. • “Flowing water encounters no obstruction.” (Taoist saying)

21. Support • The Institute for Integrative and Energy Medicine is organized exclusively for charitable purposes under U.S. Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3).  As a section 509(a) private foundation, the Institute relies on foundation grants and philanthropic support to fund projects. • Your contribution supports the Institute’s ultimate purpose of serving the needs of health-care consumers by furthering the healing of the global community and the spiritual evolution of humanity, thus leaving a legacy for the world’s future. • Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

22. Support • The Institute gratefully acknowledges a one-year challenge grant from the Frederick S. Upton Foundation, St. Joseph, Michigan, and a matching grant from the Helen M. and Annetta E. Himmelfarb Foundation, to "help create a think tank of international reputation for law and policy in integrative health care.”