Transcripts 1999 Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference

(1999)

Below are transcripts from The Center for Mind-Body Medicine's second annual groundbreaking conference, Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Complementary and Alternative Therapies, which was held on July 11 -13, 1999, in Arlington, VA. We have transcribed and edited the audio recordings of the conference and have made them available to you through this site.

Click here for a list of all the Speakers' Biographies

Please take a moment to give thanks to these Conference Supporters. Without their support this conference would not have been possible.

Pre-Conference Workshops

Thursday, June 10

Workshop: What Do We Know About Nutrition and Cancer?
Jeffrey Bland, PhD

Keynote & Plenary Sessions

Friday, June 11

Plenary: Addressing the Environmental Causes of Cancer
Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH

Plenary: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Cancer Care: A Progress Report
Congressman Dan Burton, Barrie Cassileth, PhD, Mary Ann Richardson, PhD, and Robert Wittes, MD

Plenary: Integrative Oncology: One Physician's Effort to Combine the Best of CAM and Conventional Care
Keith Block, MD

A Cross-Cultural Look at Cancer and its Treatment
Debu Tripathy, MD, David Hess, PhD
Moderated by: Barrie Cassileth, PhD

The NCI Best Case Series
Jeffrey White, MD, Mary McCabe, RN, and Michael Hawkins, MD
Moderated by: Jeffrey White, MD

Providing Integrative Care I
Keith Block, MD & Michael Schacter, MD
Moderated by: Brian Doyle, MD
Commentator: Robert Wittes, MD

Nutritional Guidelines for People with Cancer
Jeffrey Bland, PhD & Daniel Nixon, MD
Moderated by: Susan Lord, MD

Art of Healing: An Experiential Session
Bernie Siegel, MD
Moderated by: Monique Class, MSN

Saturday, June 12

Plenary: Being and Doing in the Practice of Medicine: Embracing the Deeper Dimensions of Healing
Jeremy Geffen, MD

Plenary: 30 Years on the Frontier of Cancer Care
O. Carl Simonton, MD

NCI/NCCAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clinical Trials
John Chabbot, MD, Pierre Champagne, MD, Nicholas Gonzales, MD, Jay Greenblatt, PhD, Richard Nahin, PhD, James Pluda, MD, and Roger Winn, MD

Providing Integrative Care II
Mitchell Gaynor, MD & Jeremy Geffen, MD
Moderated by: Joseph Lamb, MD
Commentator: Robert Wittes, MD

Complementary and Alternative Therapies: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
Steve Dunn, David Hess, and Pali Delevitt
Moderated by: Henry Dreher

Integrative Guided Imagery in Cancer Care
Martin Rossman, MD
Moderated by: Carol Goldberg, MA, LGSW

Integrating Complementary and Alternative Therapies into Cancer Centers
Elisabeth Targ, MD, Susan Silver, Judy Garner, and Laura Baynham
Moderated by: Mary Ann Richardson, Dr.Ph

Anthroposophical Medicine
Robert Gorter, MD, Gerald Darnow, MD, and Matthias Stoss, MD
Moderated by: Joel Evans, MD
Commentator: Carmen Tamayo, MD

Freedom of Choice
Billy Best, Michael Cohen, JD, MBA, MFA, Fred Smith, MD, and Antonio C. Martinez, II, JD
Moderated by: Susan Haeger
Commentator: Robert Justice, MD

Providing Integrative Cancer Care III
Robert Atkins, MD, Hal Gunn, MD, and Roger Rogers, MD
Moderated by: John Pan, MD
Commentator: Susan Sencer, MD

Putting Together Your Individualized Treatment Plan
Carole O'Toole, MS, Joan Runfola, LCSW, ACSW, Richard Steinberg, MD, and Alan Stone
Moderated by: Pali Delevitt, PhD

Healing with Sound
Mitchell Gaynor, MD
Moderated by: Robert Gerard, MD
Commentator: Tomas Brown, MD

Mind-Body Skills Groups for Cancer
James S. Gordon, MD & Nancy Harazduk, MS, LCSW

Colon Cancer
Daniel Nixon, MD & Michael Wargovich, PhD
Moderated by: William Fair, MD
Commentator: Thomas Brown, MD

Sunday, June 13

Energy Healing
Elizabeth Targ, MD & Samuel Hendler, MD
Moderated by: Susan Lord, MD
Commentator: Gailen Marshall, Jr., MD, PhD

Strategies for Prevention
Carolyn Aldige, Clemont Bezold, PhD, Devra Lee Davis, PhD
Commentator: James Turner, JD

Providing Integrative Care IV
Timothy Birdsall, ND
Moderated by: Roberto Mayo
Commentator: Susan Sencer, MD

The Anthroposophical Approach to Music and Movement Therapy
Virginia Efta, Sheila Phelps Johns, Miriam Karnow, Channa Andriesse Seidenberg, and Elizabeth Usher
Moderated by: Christine Murphy

Caring at the End of Life
Dale Borglum, PhD, Myra McPherson, and Jean Watson, RN, PhD
Moderated by: Shanti Norris

Innovative Uses of Conventional Cancer Treatments
James Anthony Boyle, MD, Glen Hyland, MD, and Robert Nagourney, MD
Moderated by: Robert Gerard, MD