CPP Seminar; Saturday 27 March

[Guest guest]

Dear Colleagues

Just in case you have missed the notices that have been sent out, I wish to draw

your attention to the forthcoming CPP Seminar on 'Pain and Phytotherapy'.

I have pasted the programme and the biographies of the speakers below.

It should be a good meeting.

With my best wishes,

       Ann

Dr Ann

Discover Herbal Medicine at:

www.newvitality.org.uk

 

CPP

Continuing Professional Development

Seminar Series

 

" Pain and

Phytotherapy "

 

 Saturday, 27 March 2010, 10.00 am to 4.30 pm at the

The Lecture Theatre, 

33 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG

(Nearest Tube: Square).

 

PROGRAMME

 

  9.30 am                                 

          Registration & Coffee

 

                               Chair:  Dr Saul

Berkovitz

 

10.00 am           Chair’s Introduction:   Researching

our Phytotherapy.

 

10.15                Dr Jens Foell: 

Pain mechanisms.

 

11.30

am                                       \

          

  COFFEE

 

12.00 am           Dr

Ann :    Nutritional basis of pain.

 

  1.00 pm                                 

                    LUNCH

 

  2.00 pm          Lugli:   Pain relieving properties of 

Feverfew.

 

  2.40 pm          AJ

Yates:          Dysmenorrhoea. 

 

  3.10 pm         

Newton:   Joint Pain.

 

  3.40 pm         

                                        \

       

TEA

 

  4.00 pm          Lee Calderwood:  Migraine.

 

  4.30 pm         

                                        \

      FINISH  

 

  Fees (lunch

included): CPP members:

£40.00; Non-members: £75.00; Students:  £30.00.

Concession: New

Practitioners [for first 18 months of practice only]: £35.00

 

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.  10 am – 5 pm.  Email: pamela.bull@...

www.phytotherapists.org   www.herblibrary.org  [Card facilities are

available]

CPP Continuing Professional Development Seminar

Series

 

 

Biographies of Chair/Speakers

 

Dr Saul Berkovitz

Saul Berkovitz graduated

from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1993. After obtaining MRCP,

he studied and worked

at Royal London Homeopathic Hospital (RLHH), obtaining MFHom in 1998. He was

fortunate to train as the UK's first 'Integrated Medicine' specialist registrar,

between the Whittington Hospital, London (as a respiratory medicine registrar)

and the RLHH,

obtaining his CCST in 2004. After a 'gap year' in New Zealand and the Far East,

he became

a consultant physician at the RLHH (now part of University College NHS Trust)

and recently studied Western herbal medicine at the University of East London,

qualifying in 2006.  Saul sees

patients with a variety of chronic medical problems, including chronic fatigue

syndrome, rheumatological, gastroenterological and dermatological disorders. He

has recently set up the first fully NHS-funded Western herbal medicine service,

and is interested in developing robust routine outcome data to demonstrate and

enhance the effectiveness of herbal medicine.

 

Dr Jens Foell

I live and work in London.  My working activities involve GP

practice, GPSI (GPs with Special Interest) sessions in musculoskeletal

medicine, post- and undergraduate teaching at Imperial College and service

development in the interface bridging secondary and primary

care.  As well as teaching on the BMAS (British Medical Acupuncture

Society) foundation course I work for BIMM (British Institute of

Musculoskeletal Medicine) as a course tutor.

 

Hands-on treatments have

always fascinated me and studying in Berlin provided plenty of stimulation,

seeing different

social and political systems.  After graduating I specialised in manual

medicine using a combination of trigger point techniques, HVLA (high-velocity

and low-amplitude) manipulations and soft tissue work, and chose physical

medicine and rehabilitation as a career.  I trained in a caring

institution integrating manual medicine, acupuncture, psychological therapies

and exercise in a multimodal manner.  This led to empathy fatigue and I

cured it by reinventing myself as a GP in Snowdonia.  I fell in love with

a Welsh woman. My ‘self’ underwent de- and reconstruction and I followed her

to

London.  Integrating these experiences of haptic

styles, knowledge systems and health models is the challenge of today.

 

Dr Ann

Ann retired from her

post as Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition at The University of Reading in

2008.   After 20 years as a University

teacher at Reading, she became interested in the medicinal uses of

herbs, when her husband, Alan, who had chronic fatigue syndrome, successfully

responded to treatment by Chinese Herbal Medicine. While holding down her post

at Reading, Ann retrained as a herbal practitioner in the

‘western’ mode, qualifying in 1994.  She

runs a Clinic from her home 2 days a week where she treats patients suffering

from a wide variety of conditions with a combination of nutrition and herbal

medicine.  Whilst at the University of Reading her clinical studies involved

the therapeutic efficacy of nutrients and

plant extracts with volunteers with a range of health problems, including PMS,

adverse menopausal symptoms, type II diabetes and hypertension. She is the

author of several books on human nutrition and many scientific papers.  She is

currently Director of Continuing

Professional Development of the CPP and is Co-Director, with her husband, of

“Discovering Herbal Medicineâ€Â  - a 12

month home-study course, which, on completion, is accepted for entry onto most

BSc Courses of Herbal Medicine in the UK.

 

Lugli

Lugli graduated in

Industrial Chemistry (University of Bologna) and for a few years worked as a

researcher and

production assistant for the BASF in Milan.  Then his

area of interest moved over completely to medicinal herbs and he graduated in

2003 in Phytotherapy from the College of Phytotherapy (UK)

then based in East Sussex.  In the last

ten years has worked as a consultant for the Aboca-Planta Medica Company

and has been deeply involved in many research and teaching projects ranging

from product development, the supervision of University research projects to

researching phytochemical  “complexityâ€,

its understanding and possible future applications.  He is currently a lecturer

on  the Master of Phytotherapy programme at the

Universities of Cagliari and Madrid, where he teaches modules on the

phytotherapy of the gastrointestinal and respiratory systems.

 

AJ Yates

AJ Yates graduated with a

degree in herbal medicine from Middlesex University in 2002, after becoming

interested in herbal medicine through an adult

education course.  Since graduating, apart from raising a family, he has

been a member of the NIMH as well as the CPP, and has his own part-time

practice in Milton Keynes.  During the week, AJ teaches first aid for St

Ambulance Training Services Division, as well as helping out on the

volunteer side.  In 2007, he started a part-time MSc in medical

anthropology at Brunel University.  He gained a distinction in 2009 after

completing his

dissertation on the usage of western herbal medicine at an NHS GPs' surgery. He

is currently a mentor for the NIMH new members' scheme, and is a trustee on the

board of directors for The Archway Clinic of Herbal Medicine.  In

addition, he is registered as a participant in the Ethnomedica project, which

is being run by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

 

Newton

was born in Poland and brought up in an environment where herbal home

treatment was a normal part of everyday life. 

She has lived in Britain for the past 29 years.   After working for several

years as a

computer animator for natural history TV programmes she decided to change her

career and qualified as a medical herbalist in 2002 at the College of

Phytotherapy.   Currently she practises at

Neal’s Yard Remedies in Cheltenham where she also regularly runs courses on

self-treatment with herbs.  She is

passionate about teaching people to use herbs at home and has recently

published a book on the subject.

 

Lee Calderwood

Lee is a family man living

on a smallholding just outside Y Ffor  in Wales, where he and his wife, Ellie,

originally intended

to farm herbs for culinary purposes. 

However, he became more interested in the medicinal uses of herbs.   After

having spent 20 years in the RAF

flying Search & Rescue helicopters, he decided a change in career was

called for and retrained in Phytotherapy.  

Lee and Ellie have now set up Perlysiau Llyn Herbs and produce quality

organic herbal medicines and products under the " Petha' Pur " brand.  

Alongside the herbs they also have a small

flock of pedigree Lleyn Sheep.  Lee

practices at the Harbourside Clinic, Porthmadog – a multidisciplinary Clinic

encompassing a large variety of healthcare therapies.  In his clinical practice

he has found that

herbal treatments work well alongside orthodox medication and are particularly

effective in chronic conditions such as migraine.