Robin Friedlander '11, Carling Ursem '11

Treating illness and optimizing health, acute care and preventative medicine, mind and body: all of these are essential to a vision of total health, but Western medicine looks at only one half of the picture. Integrative medicine combines Western medicine with Eastern, holistic, nutrition-based, and other healing modalities, with the goal of achieving it all. The Integrative Medicine Club promotes integrative medicine at P&S and throughout CUMC, by bringing speakers to campus to lecture on topics such as meditation, yoga, stem cell plasticity, nutrition, and funtional medicine, and by holding events such as an acupunture seminar where students and faculty can experience Eastern medicine for themselves. Intergrative medicine is one of the most quickly growning fields in health care. For those interested, just curious, or already versed in integrative, the IMC hopes to help you learn more, and aims to inspire a broader conception of what it means to be healthy at Columbia.