Integrative Health Summit Highlights University’s Research Strengths

With plans underway to establish a College of Osteopathic Medicine, Duquesne hosted an Integrative Health Summit Oct. 24 featuring many of the University’s health researchers.

 
The symposium, Healing the Whole: How Integrative Medicine Can Solve Global Health Issues, explored major health trends, including:

• The opioid crisis and chronic pain
• New innovations regarding cancer treatment
• The groundbreaking use of biomarkers to predict autism and Alzheimer’s disease
• Ways to close the gap on health inequities for marginalized populations.

The summit also included sessions focusing on children and family health issues, such as the anti-vaccine movement, integrative techniques to serve marginalized populations—including sexual assault victims and those dealing with violence-related trauma—and the role of the arts in medicine.

Watch the summit presentations online.