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Holistic Pediatric Training

Weekend Seminars 2008

The Holistic Pediatric Training seminars conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area are designed to provide clinicians with an integrated program that conveys the concepts and skills necessary to treat children from a holistic perspective. Practitioners who want to expand their practices to treat children can now receive the training they need to become effective and confident child health care providers. Acupuncturists, naturopathic doctors, chiropractors, and homeopaths can develop confidence in diagnosing pediatric medical problems and managing children's illnesses, as well as gaining a more comprehensive perspective on the holistic pediatric principles. Seminar instructors are leading experts in the field of holistic pediatrics and practitioners with many years experience in teaching, writing, and clinical practice.

The seminar schedule includes a weekend seminar on pediatric physical exams designed for acupuncturists and others who need more training in pediatric diagnosis, and a weekend seminar in holistic principles applied to well child care and general primary care pediatrics. Also on the schedule is a weekend comprised of two 1-day seminars – one on acute illness and alternatives to antibiotics and another on management of pediatric asthma.

Pediatric Functional Medicine is a new seminar that provides attendees with the principles of biochemical individuality applied to pediatric care. Pediatrician Elisa Song will explain the use of lab tests, botanical medicines, nutritional support, and pharmacological treatment options applied to children with asthma, eczema, ADHD, GI disease. She will also define the role of leaky gut syndrome in the production of allergies, and elucidate the diagnostic and treatment plan for these children.

We are very excited to host two seminars in Five Phase Constitutional Chinese medicine and pediatrics, taught by Efrem Korngold OMD, co-author of Between Heaven and Earth.

You can see the schedules and register for all of these seminars at http://www.healthychild.com. Practitioners can attend individual seminars or the entire series. Student discounts available. Members of the Holistic Pediatric Association will receive a substantial discount on each seminar.

This is a tremendous opportunity to learn holistic pediatrics from some of the world's leading authorities and educators in this field.

Online Consultation

In conjunction with Holistic Pediatric Training we also offer a free online pediatric consultation forum and discussion group for pediatric practitioners through our Yahoo Group. Practitioners who have questions about their treatment of children now have access to expert pediatric practitioners. This interactive consortium of pediatric acupuncturists, pediatricians, and other pediatric professionals is dedicated to increasing the ability of all practitioners to treat children, gain confidence in the management of children's cases, and provide peer support for difficult pediatric cases.

Go to www.yahoo.com click on Groups and search for holisticpeds. Then register.

Seminar Series 2008

Holistic Pediatrics Module

Physical exams, Diagnosis, and Red flags – 14 hrs

Feb 9

Elisa Song MD, Randall Neustaedter OMD

Neonatal issues

 Jaundice, weight gain, fevers

Systems (signs, symptoms, exams, and diagnosis)

 RS – throat and chest

 Eyes – vision and function

 Ears – TM, middle ear

 GI – bowel function, colic, tummy aches

 GU – male, female, urinary tract

 MS – orthopedics

 Skin – rashes and eruptions

This seminar is designed to provide practitioners with the tools to do physical examinations of well and sick children. Attendees will learn how to examine each body system to detect common abnormalities and pathological signs. Practitioners will also learn the best methods of examining children at different developmental stages, and specific concerns and signs of abnormal conditions in children from birth through adolescence. We will also cover the markers and red flags for those conditions that require referral to pediatricians and other pediatric specialists for a more thorough evaluation or urgent care.

Materials for the seminar include audio-visual presentations of normal and abnormal physical signs, illustrative cases, plastic models, and actual live patients. Hands-on sessions give practitioners the experience of doing physical exams to gain expertise and confidence in diagnosing and managing pediatric cases.

Holistic Pediatric Practice 14 hours

Jan 26

Randall Neustaedter OMD

Holistic Principles

• Caring for the whole child's mental, emotional, and physical health
• Constitutional and acute care principles

Well child visits, developmental pediatrics, learning styles

Vaccine Choices

This seminar introduces the materials and methods for developing a holistic pediatric practice. We will cover protocols for well-child care from birth through early childhood, and management principles for chronic and acute illness using an integrative holistic model. Holistic principles are applied to nutrition, parenting, anticipatory guidance, and immune system development. This seminar is suitable for physicians, nurses, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and other primary health care providers. Attendees will be exposed to the practical principles for providing holistic pediatric care. 

Holistic care as presented in this seminar brings together the concepts of science, evidence-based practice, Chinese medicine, and homeopathic philosophy to the subjects of nutrition, vaccination, management of illness with natural treatment modalities, and children's emotional and spiritual well-being.

Materials covered in the seminar include:

flowsheets for patient charts, and topics for each well-child visit

the use of holistic treatment methods for the management of acute and chronic illness

guidelines for nutrition in children at the different developmental stages

integration of holistic pediatrics with conventional pediatrician care

the use of parent education materials and informed consent for vaccine decisions

discussion of safety issues around toxic exposure of children to pesticides, home cleaning products, and environmental toxins in water, toys, and other household products.

Acute Illness and Alternatives to Antibiotics 7 hours

April 5

Randall Neustaedter OMD

The holistic treatment of infectious disease, viral and bacterial

Respiratory – colds, sore throats, bronchitis, pneumonia

Digestive - diarrhea

Fevers and exanthems

Treatment of injuries and exogenously caused symptoms

Injuries, sprains, strains, burns

Poisoning, allergic reactions, poison oak

Problems in infancy

Managing colic and reflux

Skin problems – rashes and eczema

This seminar will provide practitioners with the management principles and the treatment regimens to manage most common children's acute ailments. Attendees will gain the tools to feel confident in the treatment of these conditions and to recognize the warning signs to make appropriate referral for potentially dangerous situations.

Management of Pediatric Asthma 7 hours

April 6

Randall Neustaedter OMD

Asthma—Etiology

Vaccines and Asthma

Antibiotics and Asthma

Holistic Approach to Asthma

Acute symptomatic management

Constitutional treatment

Functional medicine lab tests

Drug management

Assessing the case

Physical exam

Developing a treatment plan

Nutritional Support

Understanding asthma in children from the perspective of holistic pediatrics, including the role of nutrition, vaccines, and the underlying constitution. This seminar also describes an integrative treatment plan, including the use of pharmaceutical agents, Chinese herbs, nutritional supplements, and lifestyle changes.

Attendees will learn about the holistic management plan in pediatric asthma, including both acute symptom management and curative constitutional care, appropriate referral, supportive measures to institute with children, and nutritional interventions for parents to initiate.

Pediatric Functional Medicine 14 hours

April 26

Elisa Song MD

Functional medicine is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the principles of biochemical individuality, patient-centered care, dynamic balance of internal and external disease factors, web-like interconnections of physiological factors, health as a positive vitality, and promotion of organ reserve.

Functional pediatrics looks at how the unique genetic predisposition with which each child is born interacts with the physical, emotional, and spiritual factors to which that child is exposed.  Taking into account everything that is put into a child's body (from the food they eat, the air they breathe the water the drink, the thoughts they think, and the toxins they're exposed to), functional pediatrics explores how these interface with biochemical individuality to manifest as each child's specific expressions of wellness or illness.  Understanding and learning to use the functional medicine matrix is a powerful way for pediatric healthcare providers to assist children and their families on their road to optimal health.

Day One will explore the guiding principles of Functional Medicine.  Included in this discussion will be a review of the Functional Medicine Matrix, when and how to use a variety of functional laboratory tests, along with pharmacological, botanical, and nutritional treatment options.  Day Two will review functional approaches to various childhood disorders (asthma, eczema, ADHD, gastrointestinal disease, autoimmune illness), along with specific studies, and allow participants an opportunity to discuss cases of their own.

Chinese Medicine Module

Fundamentals of Five Phase Constitutional Medicine and Pediatrics 7 hours

March 8

Efrem Korngold OMD

 The seminar will be in two parts, morning and afternoon. In the morning we will discuss the derivation and clinical application of the Five Constitutional-Character Types according to the logic of Five Phase Theory. This will include a slide presentation, an interactive exercise and, if time permits, one or two case illustrations. In the afternoon portion, we will discuss the application of the Five Types method to describing and understanding child development and constitutional typing in children. This will also include a slide presentation in which we will construct and deconstruct our methodology followed by a discussion of a few selected cases from my practice and cases brought in by the seminar's participants. Participants will be expected to bring at least one, and preferably two, write-ups of pediatric patients and/or write-ups of their young relatives or their own children. There will be an online form that can be downloaded for submitting case histories.

Advanced Perspectives in Five Phase Constitutional Pediatrics 7 hours

May 17

Efrem Korngold OMD

This seminar will hopefully provoke a wide ranging discussion of Chinese medicine pediatrics in the context of constitutional types as a methodology for diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and nurturance of healthy growth and development. I will begin the morning discussion by illustrating my approach in a few of my own clinical cases, but participants will be expected to bring write-ups of their own patients for the afternoon portion. However, we will not perform actual treatment, recommend therapy or give advice to parents during the seminar, unless the parents also happen to be seminar participants.

Contact us

For information about all of these programs Visit our website at www.healthychild.com to view the details of seminar content, biographies of the instructors, and to register. Attend our seminars.