Principles & Practices of Complementary and Alternative Medicine  (HBEH 960)

Monday, August 29 thru Decebmer 5, 2016- 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM

Location: UNC Cancer Center main conference room

HBEH 960 is a fall-semester course held on Monday evenings, 6:00 PM - 8:50 pm, August 29 - December 5, 2016 (omitting Labor Day). The course location is in the UNC Cancer Center main conference room.  The course has been offered since 1995 to medical and other health-professions students as well as interested faculty and staff involved in health care or health-care research.

The course involves presentations by CAM experts (including local practitioners) on philosophies, practices, and research related to complementary and alternative therapeutics used widely in the U.S., such as mindfulness, hypnosis, biofeedback/neurofeedback, tai chi, qigong, yoga, massage/bodywork therapies, herbal medicine, acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, homeopathy, aromatherapy, functional medicine, chiropractic, and shamanism.  The course includes opportunities for community experiences and discussions about challenges and opportunities for integration into mainstream health care.


UNC faculty and UNC staff who would like to audit may request permission by writing to the course Director at Susan_Gaylord@med.unc.edu  Please state your background and reasons for wanting to take the course.

Non-UNC health professionals and others may inquire about the possibility of attending by emailing Susan_Gaylord@med.unc.edu. 

For additional questions about course logistics, please email Kelly_Eason@med.unc.edu.

 Thank you!

Susan Gaylord, Ph.D.
Director, Program on Integrative Medicine
Research Associate Professor
Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
UNC School of Medicine