In this week's episode we announce a new regular segment for the
news. The last Saturday of each month we will do a new spin on the
news called "Charting the Convergence", discussing
specifically how the practitioner community is converging to make
maximum impact in medicine. Choosing the stories and joining us
each month will be John Weeks, journalist, campaigner and
chronicler of the movement for more than three decades.
This week you will learn about
- The CDC's recent communication on opioid abuse
- How DCs, NDs and L.Acs responded to the news
- The important role of pain care in the convergence
Please send us your best news stories to [email protected]
and feel free to share this with colleagues. Thanks to our sponsor,
Healthwave. Find out more about their functional nutrition
education at www.goevomed.com/healthwave
John Weeks is a chronicler, speaker, change
agent and executive with three decades in leadership of the
movement for integrative health. He works at the convergence of
that historic trend with the medical industry’s recent engagement
with creating health. John has consulted and presented with
multiple major health care organizations – among these the NIH,
WHO, AHA, AAMC, IOM, and APHA – and numerous other academic and
professional organizations. He helped found key collaborations in
the field including the Integrative Health Policy Consortium and
the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health. John’s writing
appears regularly at the Huffington Post, Integrative Practitioner,
Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, the Integrator Blog,
and elsewhere. He speaks regularly on the movement's evolution,
core challenges and opportunities. He attended Stanford for 3
years, studying history. Four institutions have granted John
honorary doctoral degrees. Seattle-based, Weeks feels particularly
lucky to have worked 6 of the past 15 years from Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico with his spouse and their two