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Speakers & SEMINARS

IHI offers a variety of workshops, seminars and special events to deliver healthcare, knowledge and ideas in a unique and community-based context.

Download the May 2012 Seminars PDF for details.
Download the April 2012 Seminars PDF for details.

Seminars

Thursday Night Seminar Series

Our Thursday night speaker series provides a forum for interesting talks and workshops that address health and lifestyle issues with experts from both within and external to the immediate IHI community. The talks are fun interactive and open to members of the public and clients of the clinic. Check back often to see what we have in-store.

Please call in advance to register, space is limited 416-260-6038

Follow our seminars at www.meetup.com/Integrative-Medicine

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IHI Book Club

The IHI book club is an opportunity to learn about current and provocative issues regarding wellness, the environment and questions related to a healthy & sustainable lifestyle. The Club functions as an “independent study” model with new reading recommendations arriving every 8 weeks. We will consider having Book Club discussions if we have sufficient interest. Please feel free to email us (mwalker@integrativehealthinstitute.ca) if you are interested in attending live Book Club discussions.

Current Reading Recommendations:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Rebecca Skloot

Meeting: Thursday September 15th I 7-8 pm I Free

This is a book that is hard to put down. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks shares the true story of a woman whose battle with cancer changed the face of modern medicine.

In 1951, at the age of 30, Henrietta Lacks, the descendant of freed slaves, was diagnosed with cervical cancer—a strangely aggressive type, unlike any her doctor had ever seen. He took a small tissue sample without her knowledge or consent.

A scientist put that sample into a test tube, and, though Henrietta died eight months later, her cells—known worldwide as HeLa—are still alive today. They became the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture and one of the most important tools in medicine:

Research on HeLa was vital to the development of the polio vaccine, as well as drugs for treating herpes, leukemia, influenza, hemophilia, and Parkinson's disease; it helped uncover the secrets of cancer and the effects of the atom bomb, and led to important advances like cloning, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping. Since 2001 alone, five Nobel Prizes have have been awarded for research involving HeLa cells.

Dowload the PDF poster.

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Past IHI Bookclub Selections

Overdosed America

By Dr. John Abramson

Meeting: Thursday May 26th I 7-8 pm I Free

Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies in the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.

Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., an award-winning family doctor on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, reveals the ways in which the drug companies have misrepresented statistical evidence, misled doctors, and compromised our health.

The good news is that the best scientific evidence shows that reclaiming responsibility for your own health is often far more effective than taking the latest blockbuster drug.

The Gifts of Imperfection

By Dr. Brene Brown

Meeting, Thursday July 21st I 7-8 pm I Free

Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media telling us who, what, and how we should be. We are led to believe that if we could only look perfect and lead perfect lives, we’d no longer feel inadequate. So most of us perform, please, and perfect, all the while thinking,

• What if I can’t keep all of these balls in the air?
• Why isn’t everyone else working harder and living up to my expectations?
• What will people think if I fail or give up?
• When can I stop proving myself?

In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, Ph.D., a leading expert on authenticity, shame, and courage shares what she’s learned from a decade of research on the power of Wholehearted Living.

Having Faith

By Sandra Steingraber

Having Faith is in part the story of biologist Sandra Steingraber’s journey through pregnancy, but mostly it is a poetic expose of human rights, environmental destruction and the links between our behaviour as humans and the consequence for a developing life. Steingraber has combines an exquisite blend of precise science and engaging narrative to challenge your role in protecting the health of our planet and the lives of the next generation.

Eating Animals

By Jonathan Safran Foer

That contradiction between our heart and our hunger is the ethical stumbling block Foer explores in this wide-ranging exposé of what our taste for eating animals has brought about.
While he starts gently, the book's intention is – surprisingly enough – not to turn us into vegetarians but to examine the moral and emotional arithmetic we do to justify our actions at the top of the food chain. This book is real, contentious and well researched! What more could you ask for as a starting point of discussion.

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IHI Running Group

The IHI Running Group meets monthly for a brief and highly informative talk by one of IHI’s practitioners followed by a run through the King East community. The Running Group is a great way to meet fellow runners and learn a little something in the process.

Runners of various levels are welcome!

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