Well Talk: Getting the Point – Medical Acupuncture Evidence and Practice



Date & Location
Friday, December 9, 2022, 12:00 PM - Monday, December 8, 2025, 1:00 PM

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (1.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Overview

According to the World Health Organization, more people are treated with acupuncture than any other individual therapy world-wide. Join James Stahl as he reviews acupuncture’s rapidly growing evidence base and understand when and with whom to use it. Become familiar with the scientific evidence that supports acupuncture and learn how it may be applied in Primary Care. 

Presenter
James E. Stahl, M.D., C.M., M.P.H

About our Presenter
James E. Stahl, M.D., C.M., M.P.H is Associate Professor at Geisel and TDI, Senior Scientist at the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment, and Adjunct professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University and Thayer School of Engineering. Co-Director of Dartmouth Primary Care Research Fellowship, Director of the Swigart Ethics research Fellowship, Director of Dartmouth/Harvard School of Dental Medicine HRSA grant/AEGD public Health program and Director of Mind-Body Medicine at DH. He is an outcomes researcher with expertise in decision science, operations research, health technology assessment, and simulation modeling and he is also a well-known researcher and expert in Mind-Body Medicine.

Mind-Body Medicine Program, General Internal Medicine: Dr. Stahl runs an acupuncture clinic every week seeing people for concerns ranging from knee pain to traumatic brain injury. He also runs frequent Stress Management and Resiliency Training programs, teaches meditation and teaches a weekly class in Tai Chi, Medical Qi Gong and Bagua.

Learning Outcome
At the conclusion of this learning activity (at least 75% of) participants will be able to discuss the use of acupuncture in the clinical setting. 

Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content for this activity have reported NO financial relationship(s)* with ineligible companies**.

* A “financial relationship" includes employee, researcher (named as the PI), consultant, advisor, speaker, independent contractor (including contracted research), royalties or patent beneficiary, executive role, and/or an ownership interest (not including stocks owned in a managed portfolio).

** An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Bibliographic Material

  • Chen T, Zhang WW, Chu YX, Wang YQ. Acupuncture for Pain Management: Molecular Mechanisms of Action. Am J Chin Med. 2020;48(4):793-811. doi: 10.1142/S0192415X20500408. Epub 2020 May 15. PMID: 32420752.

  • Vickers AJ, Cronin AM, Maschino AC, Lewith G, MacPherson H, Foster NE, Sherman KJ, Witt CM, Linde K; Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration. Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Oct 22;172(19):1444-53. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3654. PMID: 22965186; PMCID: PMC3658605.

Accreditation

Dartmouth Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Dartmouth Health designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Dartmouth Health Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity carries 1.00 contact hour(s).

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