Course overview
Integrative Medicine for Trauma Recovery: Healing the Embodiment of Adversity
This course covers practices that can transform the medical paradigm to address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and other traumatic exposures. Through harnessing the principles of neuroplasticity and resilience and employment of integrative practices, practitioners can ignite and foster patients’ innate healing potential.
Faculty
Audrey Stillerman, MD, ABFM, ABIHM
Board Review Series
AIHM 2017 Annual Conference
Required Lessons
1
Time to Complete
30 minutes
Non-CME Eligible*
0 Credits
What you will learn
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Course Summary
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By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain why ACE and trauma, including but not limited to poverty, racism, extreme discrimination, and war, are the most powerful known determinants of health
- Describe how ACE/trauma can cause neuroinflammation and derailment of normal physiologic development in current and subsequent generations
- List Integrative Medicine practices that can create safety, support self-regulation, build relationships, and prevent and treat the consequences of ACE and trauma
Course includes:
Included in this course
Course Faculty
Audrey Stillerman, MD, ABFM, ABIHM
About Audrey
An advocate for Chicago’s most vulnerable residents, Dr. Stillerman is a board-certified integrative family physician, Associate Director of Medical Affairs for the University of Illinois Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships, and Clinical Assistant Professor. Since learning about the critical impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences, she has made it her mission to share this critical information with colleagues, patients, students, and community members to galvanize transformation of our society and medical system.
*CME/CEU Credits
The CME for this course has expired, however you will continue to have access to your purchased content.