The Integrative and Personalised Medicine Congress incorporates three conferences over three days; Whole-person Health conference, Integrative Mental Health conference and the College of Medicine ‘Food on Prescription’ conference. Featuring high profile speakers from across the globe, the conferences highlight the benefits of taking an integrative whole-person approach to health, incorporating clinical experience with the latest evidence-based research and knowledge.
Whole-Person Health Conference - Thursday 6th June 2024
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FeaturedThe Whittle5 minsChairperson
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Medicine, as we know it, is no longer affordable or sustainable. Nor is it able to curb the increase in obesity, mental health problems and most long-term disease. Dr Michael Dixon, Chair of the College of Medicine, will highlight how it is now time for Integrative Care to take centre stage - combining the best of our current medicine with an approach that enhances our natural abilities to self-heal and stay healthy using lifestyle and a wider range of therapies.
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FeaturedThe Whittle30 mins
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The session will focus on the evolving role and range of social prescribing in national healthcare.
The Panel: Professor Tony Avery OBE, National Clinical Director for Prescribing NHS England; Dr Lucy Pollock, consultant geriatrician and best selling author; Charlotte Osborn-Forde, CEO National Academy of Social Prescribing; Dr Kelly Thornber, Co-Director Pharma Pollution Hub; Hamaad Khan, co-lead Beyond Pills Hope for the Future; Sian Brand, Chair Social Prescribing Network (hosted by CoM), College of Medicine
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FeaturedThe Whittle25 mins
Dr Leslie Stone and Chris Moore have been applying principles of health preconception and pregnancy management by integrating genomic and nutrient biomarker testing with nutrition, nutrient, and lifestyle interventions. They will highlight how this has successfully decreased adverse pregnancy and pre-term birth rates resulting in significant reduction in associated healthcare costs, and improved health resilience across the lifespan.
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The Exhibition Halls30 mins
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The Whittle30 mins
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Prof Robert Thomas is currently undertaking a national double blind Randomised Control Trial looking at gut health and prostate cancer outcomes - the first prospective clinical study in the world! He will explain how they are helping to educate patients to improve gut health in routine practice plus highlighting the work around diet, lifestyle, physical activity and sleep.
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FeaturedThe Gielgud30 mins
Professor Debbie Sharp is leading the evaluation of a pilot social prescribing project that has linked general medical practices in deprived areas of SW England with two local farms. Patients have been referred by their GP for the project which is intended to demonstrate the potential role of healthy food, engaging with the outside environment, farming and sustainable food production with improving individual health and healing.
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FeaturedThe Whittle25 mins
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FeaturedThe power of collaborative working – Joining up nutritional therapy practice with NHS primary careThe Gielgud25 mins
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The Exhibition Halls60 mins
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Dr Gersh is adept in all areas of women's health but is especially renowned for her expertise in female hormones. Her holistic approach to the female aging process looks at comprehensively addressing the impacts of circadian rhythm disruption, sleep disturbances, pharmaceuticals, environmental toxins, nutrient and hormonal deficiencies, gut microbiome imbalances and chronic stress.
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Dr Boon Lim is an NHS consultant Cardiologist, and obtained a PhD from Imperial College on the Autonomic Nervous System in heart rhythm abnormalities. He has published on heart rate variability and having trained as a HeartMath coach, he incorporates breathwork coaching in his day to day practice with cardiac patients, and staff members. In this session, he will discuss why heart rate variability matters, and demonstrate simple training techniques to enhance acute and long term heart rate variability.
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Dr Torkil Færø, is a GP and emergency physician and author of the Pulse Cure which is one of the best selling non fiction books in 2023 in Norway, and is still on the national best seller list one year after publication. He will explain the science and physiology behind what these wearables can tell you and how you can use them to positively improve both yours and your patients overall health.
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A new health initiative promoting playing the bagpipes to improve certain lung conditions and breathing difficulties has been launched at Dumfries House. The King’s Foundation unique pilot healthcare programme will incorporate bagpiping and holistic therapies with the aim to provide participants with a range of self-management tools to empower them to improve their overall health and wellbeing.
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FeaturedThe Whittle30 mins
Central to the IPM congress is the role it plays in bringing together healthcare practitioners from a range of disciplines but who share the common goal of practising whole person, patient centred care. We aim to celebrate the common threads and foster mutual understanding and respect for different perspectives while inspiring more practitioners to embark on this rewarding approach to healthcare.
In this panel discussion you will hear from an integrative medicine doctor, Dr Elizabeth Thompson; a practicing GP Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews; a Herbalist, Alex Laird; a dentist, Dr Roop Mann and a functional medicine physician, Dr Mohammed Enayat.
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FeaturedThe Whittle45 mins
As a Naturopath and Functional Medicine Practitioner, Dr Kristi Morlan-Hughes has dedicated her professional path to the study and practice of root-cause medicine and has a particular passion in supporting the development of multi-disciplinary teams. She previously served as a Director of Medical Education at the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) for a decade and now continues to guide health coaches, nutrition professionals, and root-cause focused health care providers in their medical education journey in her various programmes and group learning opportunities.
Integrative Mental Health Conference - Friday 7th June 2024
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FeaturedThe Whittle5 minsChairperson
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FeaturedThe Whittle45 mins
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The Exhibition Halls30 mins
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A group of world-leading brain health scientists has come together to launch Alzheimer’s Prevention Day which took place on May 15th. 2024. The day aims to raise awareness of the scientifically proven ways Alzheimer’s can be prevented and aims to highlight what’s driving future risk and what can be done to reduce it.
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The Exhibition Halls60 mins
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FeaturedThe Whittle40 mins
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The Exhibition Halls30 mins
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With psychedelics fast becoming an important part of 21st Century health and wellbeing, Dr Duncan Still will provide an update on the roll-out of psychedelic-assisted therapies in the US and Australia as well as exciting developments in the UK and notable increases in psychedelic use across the globe. He will go on to raise important questions about some of the risks of the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance and then look at how we can help psychedelics achieve the great promise that they hold. He highlights their clear potential to alleviate suffering for many of those caught up in the midst of our Mental Health crisis but also asks us to consider the possibility that they might provide something even deeper. Could they provide solutions for societal rifts and even planetary health?
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FeaturedThe Whittle50 mins
Food on Prescription Conference - Saturday 8th June 2024
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FeaturedThe Whittle5 mins
Welcome from the Conference Chairs
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FeaturedThe Whittle5 mins
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FeaturedThe Whittle30 mins
Simon Mills and Prof Kerry Bone, world leading phytotherapy experts more commonly known as Mills and Bone, will share their knowledge and teachings, highlighting the significant benefits of the nutrient powerhouses of herbs and spices, and provide tips of how you can use them to support metabolism in clinical practice.
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FeaturedThe Whittle40 mins
In the last five years, we have seen the shift towards lifestyle medicine and nutrition as methods of reversing and preventing disease rightfully become mainstream, where holistic and root cause approaches to health create wholeness in both the patient and practitioner. This panel will address the important question - have we looked far enough upstream?
We bring to you a panel of experienced farmers and food producers to explore the critical role food production has in human, community and planetary health. We will explore whether all farming is the same and give real-life examples of how food production can heal the land, our communities and our bodies, offering you and your communities the opportunity to connect with a network of pioneering farming and food producers.
Chair & Panellists include: Patrick Holden, Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust; Ben Raskin, Chair of Community Supported Agriculture; Sarah Langford, Barrister turned writer and regenerative farmer in Suffolk & author of ‘Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution, UK; Dr Sally Bell, GP & Health Coordinator at Farmers footprint.
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FeaturedThe Whittle25 mins
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The Exhibition Halls30 mins
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Dr Nasha Winters will provide a lively discussion on emerging research on strategies to enhance the quality and quantity of our precious time, including; focusing on metabolic and mitochondrial health, as well as aspects of metabolic psychiatry; By analysing individual data (labs, epigenetics, location, support, motivation) and to help one overcome the road blocks that might prevent optimal health. She will wade through the volumes of misinformation and hype, and help discern fact from fiction with regards to best supportive strategies.
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FeaturedThe Whittle25 mins
While the risk factors for metabolic syndrome are widely recognised (poor diet, imbalanced microbiome, physical inactivity, stress etc.), the reasons for these connections tend to remain hazy, even in scientific literature, making it hard to differentiate between root causes and downstream effects. Dr Alex Wilber, will give a narrative explanation for the tangled web of connections surrounding metabolic syndrome to enable you to best personalise lifestyle/functional medicine interventions for your patients.
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FeaturedThe Whittle15 mins
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The Whittle35 mins
Dr William Harris, PhD, FASN is the President of the Fatty Acid Research Institute and a lead researcher in the omega-3 fatty acid field, with more than 360 scientific papers - the vast majority on Omega-3. He will highlight the latest research around omega-3; which omega-3s are most important and why; why omega-3 testing is key to ensuring you are getting the right omega-3s from your diet.
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The Exhibition Halls60 mins
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FeaturedThe Whittle30 mins
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Offering a hugely practical presentation, Ben Brown will explore the limitations of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) diagnosis and therapy; review overlooked and commonly neglected causes of IBS-like symptoms; evaluate clinical investigations that identify new IBS-subtypes and provide updates on human clinical interventions, including histamine intolerance, nickel sensitivity, industrial food additives, and food as medicine.
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FeaturedThe Whittle15 mins
Sophie Trew will demonstrate some simple vagus nerve activation exercises to help calm the nervous system which in turn will improve digestion.
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FeaturedThe Whittle25 mins
After suffering from skin disease, Rosacea, and insulin resistance for more than five years and seeing multiple doctors without success, Dr Radka Toms resolved her own skin problems by developing a comprehensive approach rooted in functional medicine principles, addressing the underlying factors contributing to rosacea. By restoring gut health, managing stress and sleep, optimizing nutrition, and adopting a self-love narrative and a skin-supportive routine, individuals can reduce inflammation and redness and in some cases, eventually achieve healing from rosacea.
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FeaturedThe Whittle15 mins
Darryl Edwards will deliver a TED-style presentation on the transformative power of movement as medicine, exploring multiple reasons why active play is among the most effective methods to enhance health.
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FeaturedThe Whittle40 mins
Doctors are often of the belief that heart health is the most important area for patients to concentrate on and that the liver was a minor player. Dr David Unwin explains how understanding the significance of Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which is now affecting 38% of the developed world, is the key to preventing both diabetes and a lot of cardiovascular illnesses.
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Dr Deanna Minich is an internationally recognised teacher, author, scientist, speaker, and artist. Her passion is bringing forth a colourful whole-self approach to nourishment and bridging the gaps between science, soul, and art in medicine, while adding colour and light to the often confusing and polarising topic of nutritional science.