DR. PHILIP APPEL INVITED TO MODERATE PANEL AT 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND HEALTH

Philip Appel, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Director of Psychological and Neuropsychological Services,  will co-host a panel at the 2018 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health May 8-11, entitled:  Lessons learned about pain management: the power of integrative health, nature, and community.

This Breakfast Roundtable will focus on the Behavioral Medicine contributions to the treatment and management of persistent pain; Hosts Phil Appel and Tobi Fishel will discuss their work, their viewpoints and interventions used with this population in an effort to increase awareness of the contributions from Behavioral Medicine to ameliorating suffering in this population. A brief overview of Hypnosis, Guided imagery, CBT , Mindfulness, group work, compassion practice, music/sound healing, art, meaning making, narrative medicine and the healing medicine of community and the natural world will be presented.