This interdisciplinary one-day symposium should be of great interest to biologists, especially botanists, biomedical researchers, practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine, and public health workers. What do the forest in Venezuela and Brazil and plants from California yield as natural products that can be exploited as alternative therapies for the benefit of health? The popular press (e.g., every Monday's Los Angeles Times Health Section) gives examples of some kind of "cure." Thus, there is an ever-growing awareness of the possibility of using these natural products in place of other drugs. Most important, there is an attempt to place these products within the realm of solid science by the publication of evidence-based reports. SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER Edwin L. Cooper, Ph.D., Sc.D
Friday, October 06, 2006 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
CCIM Member Editor in Chief of eCAM Professor Department of Neurobiology David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Phone: (310) 825 - 9567 Fax: (310) 825 - 2224 Email: cooper@mednet.ucla.edu
Room 63-105 Center for the Health Sciences UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095
Program 9:00 a.m - Noon Presentations and Recent Publications by Four International Experts Elaine Elisabetsky. The Alkaloid Alstonine: A Review of Its Pharmacological Properties. eCAM2006; 3: 39-48. Laboratorio de Etnofarmacologia, Departamento de Farmacologia ICBS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil Nigel J. Smith. Healers of the Amazon. International Gallerie 2003; 6: 80-88 University of Florida, Department of Geography 3141 Turlington Hall, PO Box 117315, Gainesville, FL 32611-7315
Meyer Magarici. The Systemic Theory of Living Systems. Part IV: Systemic Medicine—The Praxis. eCAM 2005; 2: 429-439. Adaptogenic Medical Centers Calle del Arenal c/c Luis de Camoes La Trinidad, Caracas 1080, Venezuela James D. Adams, Jr. and Cecilia Garcia. Women's Health Among the Chumash. eCAM 2006; 3: 125-131. California, and Granada Hills Department of Molecular Pharmacy and Toxicology, University of Southern California Noon - 2:00 p.m. No-Host Lunch Break 2:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m. Round-Table Discussion