Course overview

Board Review:
Integrative Approaches to Common Diseases

This course is split into several presentations designed to prepare you for the ABOIM exam by reviewing underlying causes of common diseases and the complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies used to treat them.
 Faculty

Erika Cappelluti, MD, ABOIM

Sadi Jimenez, ND

Sanford Levy, MD, ABIHM

 Board Review Series

ABOIM Domain 8

 Time to Complete

6.25 hours

 Credits

Non-CME Eligible

What you will learn

  • Course Summary

  • This course is split into several presentations designed to prepare you for the ABOIM exam by reviewing underlying causes of common diseases and the complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies used to treat them: allergies, asthma, Cancers, nephrology, musculoskeletal, metabolic/endocrine, autoimmune, urology, affective disorders, chronic fatigue, neurology, infectious disease, CVD, GI, and dermatology. You will review dietary supplements and therapeutic strategies used to treat these conditions and discuss the evidence-base driving their use.
    By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

    • Review evidence-based use of dietary supplements and complementary modalities of treatment for allergies (food), asthma, and Cancers.
    • Describe evidence-based use of dietary supplements and complementary modalities of treatment for a variety of common conditions, such as adrenal fatigue, MTHFR, macular degeneration, autoimmune diseases, and urological conditions.
    • Review evidence-based use of dietary supplements and complementary modalities of treatment for depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer's, MS, and infectious diseases.
    • Review evidence-based use of dietary supplements and complementary modalities of treatment for cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and dermatologic diseases and conditions.

Course includes:

  • Video recording
  • Downloadable audio
  • Speaker handout(s)
  • 1 Quiz
  • 1 Evaluation
  • Certificate of Completion

Included in this course

Course Faculty

Erika Cappelluti, MD, PhD, MA, FCCP, ABOIM, ABIHM

About Erika
Dr. Cappelluti is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, critical care, and integrative medicine (IM).  She began her career as a research scientist, obtaining a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the Medical College of Virginia where she later completed her medical training.  She was a resident, chief resident, and fellow at UMass Medical Center in Worcester, MA, then joined Connecticut Multispecialty Group (CMG, now called Starling Physicians) in 2004.  She became a diplomate of the ABIHM in 2008 and of the ABOIM in 2015 and obtained a Master of Arts degree in IM in 2009.   She founded and was the Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Health and Healing, the integrative medicine division of CMG, which later became the Center for Healing Arts after merging with the Hartford Hospital IM program. She has authored many scientific articles and abstracts and has written many articles about IM. Dr. Cappelluti is the current Director of the AIHM Fellowship program.
About SADI
Dr. Jimenez is a Naturopathic Doctor practicing in the state of California. She came into medicine from a deep need to understand the human experience through the lens of health. During naturopathic medical school, she rotated through different medical systems and learned from different types of healers, and healthcare practitioners. Learning from conventional healthcare workers in community health clinics, from naturopathic elders, and oral healers in traditional medicine. They taught her that there is no separation of the mind and the body. What affects one affects the other. We must understand ourselves biochemically and mentally. It is this philosophy that helped me in my own healing journey and continues to guide my practice.

Sadi is trained in the management of pharmaceutical drugs, functional medicine testing in gentle and natural approaches such as lifestyle medicine, food therapy, herbal medicine, and stress reduction. Diagnosing and treating patients with an integrative approach; combining conventional and alternative medicine to unmask the root cause of chronic disease.

Sadi Jimenez, ND

Sanford Levy, MD, FACP, ABIHM

About Sanford
Dr. Sanford Levy is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, SUNY at Buffalo.