Course Overview

Bringing Whole Health to Life Across Systems

Explore how Whole Health transforms healthcare systems and chronic pain management. Learn about multidisciplinary care, value-based models, and future trends, including AI’s role in advancing Whole Health.

2024 Annual Conference

October 25-27, 2024

Required Lessons

1 lesson with pre-test, video, post-test, and evaluation

Time to Complete

90 minutes

CME Eligible*

1.5 credit(s)

Detailed Course Info

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Course Description

The Whole Health approach is transforming healthcare by shifting from a disease-centered model to a person-centered, integrative framework. This course explores how Whole Health principles can be applied to chronic pain management and systemic healthcare transformation through multidisciplinary collaboration, value-based care, and leadership in Whole Health advocacy.

Participants will review successful Whole Health programs, discuss barriers and opportunities for scalability, and explore the future of Whole Health within evolving healthcare systems, including the role of AI and integrative care models.

Accreditation

Accreditation Statements

In support of improving patient care, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing Education for the healthcare team.

American Osteopathic Association

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to award continuing medical education to physicians. 

Designation Statements

Physicians

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this program for a maximum of 1.5 contact hour of AOA Category 1B CME credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician's participation in the activity. 

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Pharmacist

This knowledge-based activity has been assigned UAN JA0004637-9999-25-021-H99-P and will award 1.5 contact hour of continuing pharmacy education credit in states that recognized ACPE Providers.   

Statements of participation will indicate hours and CEUs based on participation and will be issued online at the conclusion of the activity. Successful completion includes completing the activity, its accompanying evaluation and/or posttest (score 70% or higher) and requesting credit online at the conclusion of the activity.   

Credit will be uploaded to CPE Monitor, and participants may print a statement of credit or transcript from their NABP e-profile. HSC complies with the Accreditation Standards for Continuing Pharmacy Education.

Nurses

This activity provides up to 1.5 contact hours. 

Certificate of Attendance

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth certifies this activity for 1.5 hours of participation.

For questions about CME credit, please contact us at https://www.aihm.org/contact/. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and/or the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine.
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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
  • Discuss the Whole Health approach to managing chronic pain.
  • Discuss the future of Whole Health within healthcare systems.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists. 

Disclosures

Planner(s)

  • Bryan Hauf, MEd has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Speaker(s)

  • Catherine M. Baase MD FAAFP, FACOEM has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
  • Cara Feldman-Hunt, MA, NBHWC has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
  • Russell Greenfield, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
  • Mary Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

What's included in this course?

This course includes the following:
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  • Video Recording
  • Downloadable Audio
  • Speaker Handout(s)
  • Quiz
  • Evaluation
  • Certificate of Completion
  • CME/CEUs

Course Outline

Meet Your Faculty

Mary Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP

Mary Jo Kreitzer PhD, RN, FAAN is the founder and director of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing at the University of Minnesota where she also serves as a tenured professor in the School of Nursing.  She has served as the principal investigator or co-principal investigator of numerous clinical trials focusing on mindfulness meditation with persons with chronic disease including studies focusing on solid organ transplant, cardiovascular disease, chronic insomnia, diabetes, and caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Recent studies include the use of social technology to enhance healing and wellbeing and the impact of mindfulness on brain-computer interface performance. Dr. Kreitzer has authored over 150 publications and is the co-editor of the text Integrative Nursing 2nd Edition published in 2019 by Oxford University Press. She earned her doctoral degree in public health focused on health services research, policy and administration, and her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in nursing. Dr. Kreitzer was named in 2020 as one of the 100 most influential health care leaders in Minnesota by MN Physician. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing,  a distinguished policy fellow in the National Academies of Practice and a Fellow Ad Eundem of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Catherine M. Baase, MD, FAAFP, FACOEM

Dr. Baase’s professional life has been devoted to improving the health of populations at scale, building the evidence base and practice of upstream actions and acting as a steward of system change.   Catherine Baase retired from her role as Chief Health Officer and Global Director of Health Services for Dow, a position she held for 20 years of her 32 years there.  Under her leadership, their health programs were extensively recognized for their innovation and achievement around the world.  She has co-authored 50 publications and received many awards for leadership in the health field.  Throughout her career, Dr. Baase has been involved across the landscape of health including: public health, healthcare, health policy, health promotion and occupational health.   

Cara Feldman-Hunt, MA, NBHWC

Cara has been in the field of Integrative Healthcare since 2008 and is passionate about health equity and incorporating integrative health practices through education, clinical practice, research, and policy. She is the Associate Director of The Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Vermont. Cara develops partnerships, programs, and strategic initiatives to make whole health accessible for all. Cara’s background is in organizational development; she has worked in large corporate settings, small start-ups, non-profits, and educational institutions, developing systems and implementing programs. Cara received her MA from Columbia University, Teachers College in Organizational Psychology, and her BA in Psychology from Ohio Wesleyan University. In 2017, she completed the Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare at Duke University, and in 2019 she completed the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy and became a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) in 2020. Cara currently serves on the Board for the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health.

Russell Greenfield, MD

Russell H. Greenfield, M.D. is Sr. Physician Consultant for the Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation for the Veterans Health Administration and maintains a private consultative Integrative Medicine practice. In addition, Dr. Greenfield is a member of the Whole Health Education team for Cornerstone Collaboration for Societal Change. Previously he served as Sr. Director of Employee Whole Health for Whole Health Institute (WHI). Immediately prior to joining WHI he was Physician Executive and medical director of Integrative Medicine for Novant Health, with headquarters in Charlotte and Winston-Salem, N.C.Dr. Greenfield completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center as well as Chief Resident Fellowship at the same institution. After moving to Charlotte, he became involved in the Emergency Medicine residency program at Carolinas Medical Center and was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was one of the first four physicians to graduate from the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1999. He is Board Certified in both Emergency Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.