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International College of Integrative Medicine
October 30- November 1, 2015
The Murphy auditorium of American College of Surgeons (ACS), Chicago, IL
“Energy and Medicine: Paradox & Controversy”
Up to 13.5 Hours of Classroom Instruction
Program Chairman Simon Yu, MD
Medical science is constantly evolving, but today’s healthcare providers are on the brink
of a fundamental paradigm shift. In light of new, evidence-based understandings of the
biological sciences, physicians are beginning to re-discover the forgotten practice of energy
medicine.
Although energy medicine is a controversial science, ICIM seeks to address the
seemingly paradoxical nature of the discipline by exploring it from many different fields of
medicine. This conference will cover everything from the basic science of bio-physics, cancer
management, and biological dentistry, to magnetic pulse therapy, micro-current therapy,
homeopathy, and thermography. ICIM’s goal is to connect different diagnostic and healing
modalities relating to energy medicine, which will allow doctors one step closer to curing the
incurables.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will learn the evidence-based definition of bioenergetic medicine
2. Attendees will learn the evidence of what conventional medical providers are missing by
ignoring the field of “veritable energy medicine”
3. Attendees will evaluate energy medicine through the lens of emerging, evidence-based
cancer research
4. Attendees will explore the metabolic causes and effects of cancer, as well as possible
treatments
5. Attendees will examine evidence of the electromagnetic field’s effect on a broad range of
topics including auto-immune disorders, homotoxicology, acupuncture, mitochondrial
dysfunction, and thermodynamics
6. Attendees will explore the connection between dental work and dysfunction
Friday October 30th 2015
8:15am-9:15am
Simon Yu MD
New Medicine Based on New Biology: Energy and Medicine
Learning Objectives:
1. Introduce the concept of Energy Medicine: Physics, bio-physics and meta-physics.
2. To recognize that parasite infections are often overlooked common medical problems for
cancer patients.
3. New way of detecting parasites by using current technology based on acupuncture
meridians and its conductance assessment which is based on biophysics and energy
medicine.
4. How to optimize using herbal and prescribed parasite medications for cancer patients.
5. Understanding the evolution of biology and cancer metabolism.
10:30am-11:30am
W. Lee Cowden MD
BioEnergetic Tools in the Care of Chronic Disease Patients
Even though quantum mechanics has offered solutions to health problems for more than
80 years, allopathic medicine has incorporated very little of what is possible into Western health
care. In this presentation, Dr. Cowden will give an overview of the use of BioEnergetic Medicine
in integrative healthcare both for improving evaluative acumen of the practitioner and for
enhancing intervention outcome in the patient. Dr. Cowden will discuss practical applications of
electro-dermal screening, heart rate variability testing that incorporates Chinese acupuncture organ
system assessment, pulsed electromagnetic therapies, photo-magnetic lymph drainage, laser
energetic detox & photonic focal detox as well as using the vibrations of the voice in resolving
subconscious emotions that contribute to physical & mental/emotional diseases.
Learning Objectives
1. Learn how to use an electro-dermal screening device to improve their evaluative
acumen & to more often pick the best therapies for a patient
2. Learn the vast amount of information provided by a comprehensive heart rate
variability testing system built based on 45 years of Russian research
3. Learn how to successfully use an electromagnetic frequency device to strengthen a
patient’s organ systems & to encourage microbe elimination from their body
4. Learn the value of photo-magnetic lymph devices in restoring lymph drainage
5. Learn the basics of Laser Energetic Detox & Photonic Focal Detox
6. Learn how to use the vibrations of the patient’s own voice to quickly resolve
conscious & subconscious emotions contributing to physical &/or
mental/emotional diseases
1:00pm-2:00pm
Peter Pedersen PhD, Young Ko PhD
Targeting Cancer Energy Metabolism (The Warburg Effect): A New Paradigm for Effective
Cancer Therapeutics
The “Warburg Effect” is the most common biochemical phenotype of many cancer types.
It is due to elevated tumor glycolysis (metabolism of the sugar glucose to lactic acid) even under
normal pressure of oxygen. Under such conditions normal cells convert glucose mainly to carbon
dioxide and water and not to lactic acid. Most cancers show a positive Positron Emission
Tomography (PET) scan that monitors the “Warburg Effect”. This prevalent Warburg Effect and
subsequent PET positivity are because most of cancer cells overexpress the mitochondrial bound
Hexokinase 2 (HK2). Such cancers have to eliminate the produced lactic acid via specific
transporters called “monocarboxylate transporters” (MCTs) as the lactic acid inside the cell
could be harmful. In contrast, normal cells produce little or no lactic acid under physiological
conditions and have very few lactic acid transporters within their cell membrane. This difference
in energy metabolism between cancer and normal cells can be used to target
specifically/selectively cancer cells. Thus, a small molecule, called 3‐bromopyruvate (3BP)
which is an analog of lactic acid/pyruvic acid is such an example. It kills cancer cells selectively.
Because 3BP looks like lactic acid, cancer cells readily take it up via MCTs, the same
transporters that allow lactic acid to go out.
Once the 3BP enters the cancer cells it targets and destroys their two energy (ATP)
production factories, mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis. In contrast, little
or no 3BP enters normal cells as they have very few lactic acid transporters. This is why 3BP as
an “Energy Blocker”. It is highly specific in killing cancer cells as it targets their most common
phenotype (“Warburg Effect”). This “specificity (selectivity)” means less cyto‐toxicity and
minimal to no side effects. Therefore, 3BP as an Energy Blocker is quite different from the
currently available chemo‐drugs that target one or more of the following: DNA replication, cell
cycle/ growth, cellular signal transduction pathways, angiogenesis, and receptors. This effective
and selective killing of cancer cells is in contrast to many commonly used anti‐cancer agents that
may take weeks to months to show any noticeable effect. Again, it is important to note that 3BP
at the effective concentrations that kill cancer cells has little or no effect on normal cells. Hence,
3BP may be considered the first member of a “NEW CLASS” of anticancer agents.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will understand the differences in energy metabolism between cancer and
normal cells, including mitochondrial functions
2. Attendees will hear a biochemical explanation of the “Warburg Effect” in order to learn
which enzymes, proteins, and pathways are responsible for this common phenotype of
cancer cells
3. Attendees will identify the relationship between the “Warburg Effect” and Positron
Emission Tomography (PET), a method used to detect cancer and monitor its treatment
throughout the world.
4. Attendees will learn how to translate bench side studies to the bedside
5. Attendees will be informed of the first member of a new class of anticancer agents called
3‐bromopyruvate and its properties, killing mechanisms, and therapeutic potential
2:00pm-2:30pm
Steve Fry MD
Evidence of Biofilm Forming Protozoans in Inflammatory and Autoimmune Disease
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will be able to discuss the concept of a microbial biofilm and how it could
impact humans
2. Attendees will hear a discussion on at least one autoimmune disease such as multiple
sclerosis and the evidence that it could be caused by protozoans
3. Attendees will learn about the concept, “Metagenomics”
4. Attendees will discover the significance of CCSVI
5. Attendees will be able to identify types of organisms being discovered in the vasculature
of patients with chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease
3:45pm-4:45pm
Silvia Binder ND, PhD
The 180 Degree Perspective on the Paradox “Energy Medicine”: Normality, Regularity &
Standard
The U.S. based National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), one
of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the
Department of Health and Human Services of the federal government of the United States,
recognizes “Veritable Energy Medicine” involving scientifically observable energy including
magnetic fields. Veritable Energy Medicine encompasses energy of particular frequencies and
intensities and wave shapes that stimulate the repair of one or more tissues.
Energy is the substance of life. Without the understanding of energy, medical
professionals are missing a big part of how our body works. We could not imagine a hospital
today without the diagnostic capabilities of X-Ray, MRI, EEG, and EKG. All of these techniques
measure and report the energy of a particular part of the body. This program will widen the
perspective of the understanding and use of Energy Medicine which, ideally, should complement
patient care.
Learning Objectives: 1. Attendees will be given a historic review of the use of Energy Medicine in different
cultures going back 17,000 years
2. Attendees will be able to identify a personalized medical approach offering reverence for
life and human uniqueness
3. Attendees will discover the important role of the diagnostic approaches in allocating
areas of inflammation, infectious processes and traumatized tissue
4. Attendees will learn about the significance of Energy Medicine intervention improving
acute and chronic disease
5. Attendees will discover how intelligent Energy Medicine methods help uncover
unresolved emotional shock and traumas which are linked to disease processes
6. Attendees will have the chance to review cases including Immune Deficiency Disorders,
Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer
4:45-5:15
Lee Woolley DNM Advanced Understandings of Homotoxicology
5:15pm-6:15pm
Jim Oschman PhD
Scientific Basis of Energy Medicine
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of connective tissue and myofascial
systems of the body.
2. Attendees will understand the evidence for bio-electromagnetic communications, and
their effect on connective tissue.
3. Attendees will hear a discussion on cooperative and collective phenomena, soft tissue
memory and holography.
4. Attendees will study the living matrix with a special focus on sensation conduction,
architecture, vibrations, and Quantum coherence.
Saturday October 31st 2015
8:00 am-8:30 am
Alexander Mostovoy HD, DHMS, BCCT
Clinical Applications of Infrared Thermography
Clinical applications of thermography are far-reaching from ER medicine to risk assessment and
early detection to treatment monitoring and follow up. In this lecture you will learn about the
latest advances in thermography, its various clinical applications, and how these applications can
benefit your patients and your clinical practice.
8:30 am-9:00 am
Lee Woolley DNM
Energetic Diagnostics of Advanced Illness
9:00 am- 10:00 am
Jerry Tennant MD
Healing is Voltage
Theodor Heinrich Boveri was a German biologist. He also reasoned in 1902 that a cancerous
tumor begins with a single cell in which the makeup of its chromosomes becomes scrambled,
causing the cells to divide uncontrollably. This was the predominant theory until 2014 when
Thomas Seyfried et al proved that genetic changes were secondary in cancer. Thus physicians
have been searching for the cause of cancer since the time of Hippocrates in 400 BC. Most
research has been focused on finding the causes of genetic changes. Perhaps the cause of cancer
has been elusive because the evidence supports the theory that the cause is a reversal of polarity
instead of biochemical. In addition, one must consider that each organ has its own battery pack:
a stack of muscle batteries known as an acupuncture meridian. The reversal of polarity occurs in
a battery in a circuit and the accompanying loss of oxygen with low voltage tells local stem cells
to make a placenta (cancer) to attempt to correct the low voltage and oxygen via fermentation
since there is inadequate oxygen to keep that organ functional. The On switch for cancer is an
accumulation of electron stealers in an acupuncture circuit; the Off switch for cancer is removing
the causes of low voltage and inserting enough electrons to reverse the polarity back to normal.
11:15am-12:15pm
Carolyn McMakin DC
Treating Inflammatory Conditions with Frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy (FSM)
Inflammation is at heart of virtually every degenerative disease including asthma, liver
disease, irritable bowel and all of the inflammatory bowel diseases. Medical interventions to
reduce this systemic inflammation are ineffective or have serious side effects. Recent research
has shown that certain specific frequencies reduce inflammation in a placebo controlled animal
model and reduce cytokines in human treatments. This lecture will present the results of this
research and show the learner how to implement this technique.
Learning Objectives:
1. At the end of this lecture attendees will know the association between lipoxygenase
mediated inflammation and asthma and will be aware of the need to reduce lipoxygenase
mediated inflammation when treating asthma.
2. At the end of this lecture attendees will know the association between lipoxygenase
mediated inflammation and irritable bowel syndrome and irritable bowel diseases and
will be aware of the need to reduce lipoxygenase mediated inflammation when treating
these conditions.
3. At the end of this lecture, the attendee will be aware of the research documenting the
effects of specific frequencies on the reduction of lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase
mediated inflammation in a mouse model.
4. At the end of this lecture attendees will understand the proposed effects of specific
frequencies on cell signaling associated with lipoxygenase mediated inflammation.
5. At the end of this lecture the attendee will be aware of the effects of specific frequencies
to reduce inflammatory cytokines in a human trial and the proposed model for these
effects.
1:45pm-2:45pm
Magda Havas PhD
Electrosmog and Electrohypersensitivity: The Manufactured Controversy and the Importance of
Prevention
Levels of electromagnetic radiation from wireless technology are increasing exponentially
and a growing population is developing cancers, reproductive problems and/or electro-hyper-
sensitivity, which involves cellular degeneration leading to symptoms similar to rapid aging.
Adverse biological effects occur at levels well below U.S. guidelines, which were designed to
prevent heating among those occupationally exposed to microwave and radar radiation and not the
infant lying next to a wireless baby monitor or the student sitting near a Wi-Fi router. The most
common devices, their radiation pattern, and their biological effects will be presented along with
information on how to minimize exposure, practice electromagnetic hygiene, and use prevention
to promote healing.
Learning Objectives
1. Attendees will learn to recognize the symptoms of electrohypersensitivity (EHS)
2. Attendees will learn to determine which devices may be contributing to EHS
3. Attendees will learn to test electrosmog
4. Attendees will learn to help patients practice electromagnetic hygiene
5. Attendees will learn to help patients recover from EHS
Take Home Information:
Attendees will be able to practice electromagnetic hygiene in their home, in their
office/clinic and be able to recommend this to their patients. They will have educational youtube
videos to play to their patients in their waiting room.
3:45pm-4:45pm
Thomas Seyfried PhD
Cancer as a Mitochordrial Metabolic Disease: Implications for Novel Therapeutics
Emerging evidence indicates that cancer is primarily a metabolic disease involving
disturbances in energy production through respiration and fermentation. Cancer is suppressed
following transfer of the nucleus from the tumor cell to cytoplasm of normal cells containing
normal mitochondria. These findings indicate that nuclear genetic abnormalities alone cannot be
responsible for cancer despite commonly held beliefs in the cancer field. The genomic instability
observed in tumor cells and all other recognized hallmarks of cancer are considered downstream
epiphenomena of the initial disturbance of cellular energy metabolism. The disturbances in tumor
cell energy metabolism can be linked to abnormalities in the structure and function of the
mitochondria. Cancer growth and progression can be managed following a whole-body transition
from fermentable metabolites, primarily glucose and glutamine, to respiratory metabolites,
primarily ketone bodies. This transition, facilitated using calorie restricted ketogenic diets, will
reduce tumor vascularity and inflammation while enhancing tumor cell death. A novel “press-
pulse” therapeutic strategy is in development for the non-toxic metabolic management of cancer.
Malignant brain cancer in preclinical models and humans will be used to illustrate general
concepts. As each individual is a unique metabolic entity, personalization of metabolic therapy as
a broad-based cancer treatment strategy will require fine-tuning to match the therapy to an
individual’s unique physiology.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, the attendees will learn that:
1. Attendees will understand that cancer arises from evidence based impairment respiration
rather than from nuclear gene mutations
2. Attendees will learn that the damage to cellular respiration leads to evidence based
compensatory fermentation, which drives cancer cell growth and disease progression
3. Attendees will be informed that the Glucose/Ketone Index (GKI) can predict evidence
based therapeutic efficacy of metabolic therapy for brain cancer
4. Attendees will be able to recognize the “Press-Pulse Paradigm” as evidence based
therapeutic strategy for the metabolic management of cancer involving ketogenic diets,
non-toxic drugs, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy
4:45 pm- 5:15 pm
Emil K. Schandl, PhD, MD (MA)
American Metabolics Laboratories Cancer Profile TM
5:15pm-6:15pm
Donald Braun PhD, Vice President Translational Research & Chief Science Officer,
Cancer Treatment Centers of America®
Tumor Genomics & Precision Medicine: The Future of Cancer Care?
This presentation will focus on how tumor genomics is currently being used in practice to care
for patients with cancer. Understanding that in addition to what kind of cancer is being treated, it
is equally, if not more, important to know what is driving the growth of the tumor itself. A
review of tumor genetics and gene mutation will lead in to reviewing the process of applying
genomic cancer medicine in clinical application. Several clinical examples of genomic testing
will be covered in discussing the future of cancer care.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will understand tumor genetics and gene mutation
2. Attendees will learn the process of profiling cellular genes and how to apply genomic
cancer medicine in a clinical application
3. Attendees will learn about BRAF inhibitor studies and cancer gene profiling workflow
4. Attendees will listen to a review of recent clinical examples and case studies of genomic
testing utilization
Sunday November 1st 2015
8:00am-9:00am
Paul Peirsel MD
Observations of a Primary Care Physician: a Thermodynamic Analysis of Healing
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will observe the body as an open biologic system containing two
thermophysiologic systems that obey the laws of physics
2. Attendees will receive a description of both the macroscopic and microscopic
negentropic systems
3. Attendees will learn the energetic basis of the "fight-or-flight" response and how it is
affected by stimulant medications, beta blockers, and states of degenerative disease
4. Attendees will study the critical role of nutrition for healing, defense, repair, and the
generation of energy in the body
5. Attendees will gather a comprehensive understanding of how thermodynamic principles
can explain healing
9:00am-10:00am
Michael Rehme DDS and Diane Meyers DDS
Biological Dentistry: The Missing Link to Your Health & Wellness
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will learn about heavy metal toxicity in dentistry
2. Attendees will explore a dental approach to physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of
health
3. Attendees will evaluate the evidence of illness and other biological health hazards
triggered by mercury fillings, root canals, and cavitations
4. Attendees will examine whether the evidence shows a link between gum disease and
other inflammatory conditions
5. Attendees will learn the importance of educating patients to allow their participation in
health care decision-making
10:00am-11:00am
William Pawluk MD, MSc
For a Powerful Health Solution Tap into God’s Own Juice: PEMFs
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will be able to identify the advantages of magnetic field therapy
2. Attendees will understand how the body is affected by magnetic fields
3. Attendees will gain an appreciation for the basic physics and applications of PEMF
4. Attendees will learn about tesla level stimulation research evidence
11:00 am -11:30 am
Garry Gordon MD Concluding Thoughts