2009 Barbara O'Grady Lecture

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2009 Barbara O'Grady Lecture

Integrative Health: Impact and Opportunity for Public Health

Dakota Lodge, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Mary Jo Kreitzer, Ph.D. R.N.
Director, Center for Spirituality & Healing

Integrative health, health and wellness, and environmental health are coalescing. What does this mean for public health? In the Spring of 2009, the Institute of Medicine hosted a Summit titled Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public. The same week, the US Senate committee on Health, Labor, Education and Pensions held a hearing on Integrative Health and the Health of the Public. Dr Kreitzer testified at both of those events. In this lecture, she will highlight the values, principles and practices underlying an integrative health perspective and the implications and opportunities for public health practice.

Presenter Biography
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN is the founder and director of the Center for Spirituality & Healing at the University of Minnesota. This interdisciplinary center coordinates integrative health and medicine programs and initiatives in the Medical School, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy and other units throughout the Academic Health Center.

Dr. Kreitzer was the principal investigator of a five year $1.6 million National Institutes of Health (NCCAM) education grant. She is currently the co-PI of a five year $2.1 million NIH (NINR) clinical trial of mindfulness meditation with solid organ transplant patients, the PI on a Fetzer Institute funded evaluation of the Inner Life of Healers Program, the co-PI of a clinical trial funded by BlueCross/Blue Shield Minnesota on the impact of an integrated residential treatment program on women with eating disorders and the co-PI of a grant evaluating the use of mindfulness meditation to treat chronic insomnia. Dr. Kreitzer is also the co-program director of an NIH funded clinical research fellowship program. In addition to her responsibilities at the Center, Mary Jo teaches courses in research and optimal healing environments in the Graduate Minor in Complementary Therapies & healing practices, and is a tenured professor in the School of Nursing. Dr. Kreitzer earned her doctoral degree in health services research and her masters and bachelor's degrees in nursing. She also serves as the vice-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.

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