CPP Seminar: Evidence Based Herbal Medicine

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Dear HerbList members:  details below of the upcoming Seminar to take place in

London, which should be of interest.  All welcome.

 

Best wishes

Ann

College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy

Continuing Professional Development

Seminar Series and AGM

 

" What on Earth is Evidence-Based Herbal Medicine? "

 

 Saturday, 2 October 2010, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm at

The Lecture Theatre, 

33 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG

(Nearest Tube: Square).

 

PROGRAMME

 

  9.30 am        

                                   

          Registration & Coffee

 

                                  Chair: 

Conway

 

10.00 am         Conway:   An Introduction to EBHM.

 

10.15 am         Little:  Motives for consulting with

Herbalists – a qualitative study.

                       

11.00

am                                       \

             COFFEE

 

11.20 am         Simon Mills:  Traditional Medicinal Use of Herbs as

Evidence.

 

12.50 am                           WINNING POSTER

PRESENTATION

 

  1.00 am                                

                    LUNCH

 

   CPP Council Meeting over Lunch

 

   2.15 pm         Dr Flower:  Defining best practice in

Herbal Medicine.

 

  3.00 pm                                

          DISCUSSION PANEL

 

  3.30 pm                             TEA followed

by AGM [CPP Members only]

 

 

  Fees (lunch included): CPP Members: £45.00; Non-Members: £60.00; Students:

£30.00.

New Practitioners [1st year only]:  £35.00.

Year qualified: …………………..

 

Attendance at this event will attract 4 CPP/CPD credits.  CPP Members: On the

day, please obtain an authorised signature to the reverse of your ticket.

 

Please send cheque, made payable to College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy,

to: Pam Bull, CPP, Oak Glade, 9 Hythe Close, Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 6LQ. 

Tel: 01323 484353  10am – 5 pm.

www.phytotherapists.org   www.herblibrary.org    

Email: pamela.bull@....  [Card facilities are available]

 

 

 

Biographies of Chair/Speakers

  Conway, President of CPP Conway studied with the College of

Phytotherapy on their full time course, graduating in 1995. Since then his work

in herbal medicine, outside of his clinical practice in Tunbridge Wells, has

centred on herbal education and politics. was formerly a tutor at the

College of Phytotherapy and helped to design the BSc Herbal Medicine programme

at Napier University in Edinburgh. was a member of the working group

responsible for developing the National Professional Standards in Herbal

Medicine with Skills for Health in 2003.  In 2006 he was appointed to the

Department of Health Steering Group set up to recommend on the regulation of

herbal medicine and acupuncture. He has written several books relating to herbal

medicine and his latest, The Consultation In Phytotherapy, is due out in August

2010.  is the current President of the College of Practitioners of

Phytotherapy and a Director of the European

Herbal and Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association.

 

Little

has a nursing background and is currently employed as a Senior

Lecturer at Bournemouth University.  The vast majority of her clinical

experience is in intensive care nursing, which she practised for many years at

both Bournemouth and Poole General Hospitals. joined Bournemouth

University in 1992.  At that time, she taught mostly in the natural sciences

(anatomy and physiology) and she taught critical care nursing to post-qualified

students. During the last 10 years or so she has been increasingly involved in

teaching research methods to post-qualifying and post-graduate health care

students and in supervising research students at Masters and PhD levels.  She

has also been studying traditional acupuncture, which she hopes to complete this

year. ’s interest in herbal medicine stems from her exposure to lay

herbalism during childhood.  Academically, she has completed Cochrane

systematic reviews on the effectiveness of

herbal medicines in arthritis and her experience of the systematic review

process was partly responsible for influencing the focus of her subsequent PhD

study.  Specifically, her PhD, which she undertook at Southampton University,

drew on the philosophy of hermeneutic phenomenology to explore the reasons for

people’s use of herbalism in the context of contemporary UK health care.

Currently, continues her academic role in conventional health care but

hopes, in the future, to engage in the practice of acupuncture and to contribute

to the academic community in a CAM context.

 

Simon Mills

Simon is a Cambridge graduate in medical sciences who has been a herbal

practitioner since 1977. In 2006 he was appointed as a professional member of

the statutory Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee. In 1987 he co-founded and

then directed the Centre for Complementary Health Studies at the University of

Exeter. In 2003 he was a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Peninsula Medical School

at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth where he developed the first taught

MSc programme in Integrated Health Care in any medical school in the UK. Since

January 1997 he has been Secretary of the European Scientific ative on

Phytotherapy (ESCOP) and was Chairman and President of the British Herbal

Medicine Association. In the past he has been President of the National

Institute of Medical Herbalists and of the College of Practitioners of

Phytotherapy. He has written many books and articles, including a modern classic

and best selling textbook with Kerry Bone The

Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy and the award winning The Essential

Guide to Herbal Safety.  He co-produced the 1996 edition of the British Herbal

Pharmacopoeia and was co-author of reports published in 1997 and 2000 for the UK

Department of Health: Professional Organisation of Complementary and Alternative

Medicine in the United Kingdom. He has published widely in the scientific

literature including controlled clinical trials and other primary research, and

lectures around the world. In 1996 the Prince of Wales appointed Simon as

Chairman of the Regulatory Working Group on his Foundation for Integrated

Medicine. In 2000 he was Special Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee

on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In 2001 he founded the first Masters

of Science in Herbal Medicine in the USA and currently commutes there 5 times a

year. Over 20 years he has built the Plant Medicine project

(www.phytotherapy.info) to disseminate the

EXTRACT database of clinically relevant information on herbal medicine. This is

now the key part of a major Department of Health project to develop new ways to

encourage self care.

 

Dr Flower

graduated in 1992 in herbal medicine and acupuncture and undertook

further clinical training in Taiwan and China. He recently completed a PhD at

Southampton University investigating the role of Chinese herbal medicine in the

treatment of endometriosis. This involved developing professional consensus on

best practice, a Cochrane systematic review of Chinese clinical trials, and a

feasibility study to test a novel way of delivering individualised herbal

decoctions within the context of a RCT. is a past President of the

Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine and has recently returned to Council to help

promote education and CPD.  He currently divides his time between research work

and private practice in London and Hove, where he has a special interest in

supporting people living with cancer, and in gynaecology.