Re: CPP Seminar on phytotherapy and gastroenterology

[Guest guest]

Dear Herbal Colleagues

We are holding a CPD seminar in Reading on Sunday 5 April on herbal medicine and

gut health - see below for details.  The focus is to be on case histories. 

Members of the UKHerbal-list are welcome.  Hope to see you there.

Ann

College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy

Continuing Professional Development Seminar Series

 

" Phytotherapy and Gastroenterology: 

with focus on case histories "

 

 Sunday, 5 April 2009, 10.00 am to 4.30 pm

The Nike Lecture Theatre, Department of Agriculture,

The Universityof Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AR

 

PROGRAMME

 

  9.30

am                                       \

                 REGISTRATION and Coffee

 

Chair  -  Dr Ann Hutchinson

 

10.00 am        Dr Saul Berkovitz:   Who are Our Patients?  CPP

Practitioner Survey

 

10.30 am        Laird and Krishna Ramamurthy:   Phytotherapy

Outcome: using MYMOP in a hospital setting

 

11.00 am                

                                      

Coffee

 

11.20 am         Gillian Leddy:  Constipation:  a key symptom for the

Phytotherapist 

 

12.00 am        Stuart McClean:  Colitis

 

 

12.40

am                                       \

                              Lunch

 

 1.45 pm         Dr Ann :  Diarrhoea and bacterial

dysbiosis                    

 

 2.15 pm         Stapley:  Gastritis and dyspepsia  

 

 2.45 pm         n Barker:  Crohn’s disease  

 

 3.15 pm        

                                        \

                        Tea

             

3.30 pm         Dr Merlin Willcox (facilitator):  breakout-group

brainstorming of three unusual case histories with GI tract involvement, with

feedback. 

 

 4.30 pm                       

                                  

Finish                

 

Fees (lunch included): CPP members: £55.00; Non-Members: £75.00; Students: 

£40.00.

 

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:

PamBull, CPP, Oak Glade, 9 Hythe Close, Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 6LQ.

Tel: 01323 .....  10 am– 5 pm.  Email: pamela.bull@...

www.phytotherapists.org   [Card facilities are available]

 

Biographies of Chair/Speakers

 

 Dr Ann Hutchinson

Dr Ann Hutchinson, MB BS BSc LFHom MCPP, is a registered doctor who

worked full time in General

Practice in Welshpool, Mid-Wales from 1969 until 1999. She then qualified in

Phytotherapy and has since worked part time

as a Medical Herbalist in Four Crosses and Llanrhaeadr YM in Mid‑Wales. Ann's

main interest lies in bridging the gap between

orthodox and herbal medicine,  and in educating people to have more self

knowledge and to be in control of their own health.

 

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.

has been a practising medical herbalist since 1999. She set up the first

herbal clinic in a hospital dermatology department at

WhippsCrossUniversityHospital, where she is tutor-practitioner to BSc Herbal

students. She also practises at Breast Cancer Haven, the national support centre

in London, and has a private clinic in Fulham. is a visiting lecturer at

RoyalFreeMedicalSchooland Universityof Westminster.  She was a TV producer for

12 years before working as an aromatherapist for staff at Chelsea &

WestminsterHospital, with drug users and those with HIV, while training as a

medical herbalist.  She co-founded Living Medicine (www.livingmedicine.org), a

vision for Britain’s first world herbal medicine/food centre and web of

community healing gardens nationwide. This national centre of excellence will

revive the world’s healing plant traditions for mainstream use, bringing

people of all cultures together to share their skills, knowledge and

pleasure in using food and herbs for everyday self-care.

 

KrishnaRamamurthy

Krishnaqualified as a medical herbalist from the Collegeof Phytotherapyin

1998.  He works with Laird in the dermatology department at

WhippsCrossUniversityHospitalas a tutor-practitioner to BSc Herbal Medicine

students. He also has a private practice in North London. Krishnapreviously

worked as a herbalist with the Immune Development Trust, treating people with

HIV, cancer and lupus.  Krishnaalso has a degree in Anthropology and is a

qualified teacher.

 

Gillian Leddy

Having been taught by Hein Zeylstra, Dorothy Carol, Geoff and Ann

Warren-, Gillian qualified from the Schoolof Phytotherapyin 1985. She has

been a practising herbalist and involved in teaching herbal medicine since then.

She feels privileged to have been able to enjoy the freedom to practise and

teach the art and science of Herbal Medicine, with little external restriction

on our profession or the way we choose to practise. Gillian lives and practises

in Ilford, East London, and is currently a senior lecturer on the BSc(Hons)

Herbal Medicine course at the Universityof Westminster.

 

Stuart McLean

Stuart qualified as a medical herbalist with an honours degree in Phytotherapy

from the Universityof Walesin 2003. He practices from a multidisciplinary clinic

in Surbiton, Surrey. He has also completed an MSc in Nutrition from

LondonSouthBankUniversitywhere he is continuing his research towards a PhD,

investigating the role of lifestyle and nutritional factors on the incidence of

ulcerative colitis. His interest in the subject stems from a strong familial

incidence of the condition.

 

Dr Ann

Ann retired from her post as Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition in 2008 after 35

years at the Universityof Reading.  She became interested in the medicinal uses

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

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

at Reading, Ann retrained as a herbal practitioner at the Collegeof

Phytotherapy.  She runs a Clinic from her home on two days a week where she

treats patients suffering from a wide variety of conditions with a combination

of nutrition and herbal medicine.  At the Universityof Readingher clinical

studies have investigated the effects of nutrients and plant extracts as single

and complex interventions. Her study groups have included those with PMS,

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

author of several books on human nutrition and many scientific papers.  Ann 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 –

completion of which allows entry to most BSc degree courses in Herbal Medicine

in the UK.

 

Stapley

qualified as a medical herbalist with a degree in Phytotherapy from

the Universityof Walesin 2004. She sees patients at her clinic in Calne. For the

past forty years she has researched the historical uses of medicinal herbs,

covering a period of 2,000 years. Fifteen years ago she began tutoring practical

historical herb workshops at museums and additionally works as a historical herb

consultant, advising and training museum staff. Practical workshops include days

on understanding the nature and possible applications of native British herbs.

has written 3 books on growing and using herbs and edited a 17th

century book of household cookery and physic recipes. Her wide collection of

antiquarian pharmacopoeias, herbals and books of household recipes supports

continued research, such as the commissioned history of distilled aromatic

waters recently completed.

 

n Barker

Previously a Teacher in both secondary and tertiary education, and then a

Literary and Theatrical Agent, n Barker embarked upon a career in herbal

medicine in 1974 first in North and Central America, then started training with

the NIMHin 1976 and graduated from the Full–Time School in 1982 where he went

on to teach Botany for over 20 years and, latterly supervised dissertations for

the BSc, and then taught Botany as well as Philosophy on the MSc in herbal

medicine at UEL.  As for clinical work, he took over a retiring GP’s premises

in 1983 where he continues to run a busy practice in Brighton & Hove  where,

until a couple of months ago, he ran a Training Clinic for trainee herbalists.

He has contributed to the British Journal of Phytotherapy and is the author of

The Medicinal Flora—a Field Guide to the Medicinal Plants of Britain &

Northwestern Europe. His latest publication is entitled History, Philosophy and

Medicine—Phytotherapy in

Context and is currently working on a more complex project. Since 1998, n

has worked and studied with Dr Jean–Claude Lapraz on the application of

medicinal plants according to the neuroendocrine theory of terrain, or

Endobiogenics as it has been renamed.

 

Dr Merlin Willcox, Luther St Medical Centre, Oxford

Dr Merlin Willcox qualified from OxfordUniversityin 1998. He trained in General

Practice, and subsequently completed the postgraduate diploma in herbal medicine

at the Universityof East London. He has a longstanding interest in herbal

medicine dating back to his medical student elective spent in a traditional

healers’ clinic in Uganda. He is a founder member of the Research Initiative

on Traditional Anti-malarial Methods, and a non-executive director of the Global

Initiative for Traditional Systems of Health. He has edited a book on

traditional herbal medicines for malaria, and has published over ten articles on

this subject. He works part-time as a consultant for a research programme on

traditional herbal antimalarials in Mali, funded by the Swiss Agency for

Development and ation, and part-time as a locum GP in Buckinghamshire and

Oxfordshire. He also works one day a week at the Medical Foundation for the Care

of Victims of Torture in London,

where he uses herbal medicine to help patients with a variety of problems

including poor sleep. He regularly advises his patients on the use of herbal

medicines in primary health care, both in the UKand abroad.

  Laird