FREE LECTURE: Friday, April 13th, Enhancing Access to Complementary and Alternative Medicine Through Low-Cost Models of Care

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Through Low-Cost Models of Care

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Free Lecture : Enhancing Access to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

through Low-Cost Models of Care

Friday, April 13th, 2012

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus

Building 7, Room 221

All are welcome

 

Lecture: Dr. Kim Tippens will be discussing her current research on improving

access to Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by using low-cost models

for care. She will describe role that CAM practitioners can play in addressing

racial and ethnic disparities in health and in meeting the needs of uninsured

and medically underserved communities

 

About the Presenter: Kim Tippens, ND, MSAOM, MPHc

Dr. Tippens is an investigator at the Helfgott Research Institute at the

National College of Natural Medicine in Portland. She has recently completed an

NIH-funded post-doctoral fellowship and is finishing a Master of Public Health

degree through OHSU. Her research focuses on health disparities and health

services, including the role that CAM practitioners can play in addressing

racial and ethnic disparities in health and in meeting the needs of uninsured

and medically underserved communities. Dr. Tippens’ research is aimed at

establishing accessible, acceptable, and effective preventive care to diverse

communities and evaluating disparities in CAM access and utilization. This

includes examining the content, costs and outcomes of CAM health services, as

well as access to these serv  

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