The Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM) has recently announced the establishment of its ARCCIM International Naturopathy Research Leadership & Capacity Building Program. The program has a very worthy goal, which is to … identify, nurture and support future naturopathy leaders and to help develop and lead a sustainable research culture able to […]
A friend and colleague of mine, Regina Lasaitis, has asked me to let you know about a service she is offering. Regina is a very experienced clinician and educator, and she is offering clinical supervision and mentorship to new herbal and naturopathic medicine graduates. Mentoring is such an important support system for new practitioners, and can […]
It was just over a week ago that I ran my first workshop on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROM’s), and I’m pleased to say it was a great success. We had 9 practitioners in the workshop, and in the 4hrs we ran through what PROM’s are, why they are useful, showed how we can integrate PROM’s with […]
Thanks to your interest, the November 2015 PROM’s workshop has already booked out! I’m looking forward to a great day with everybody, and some excellent clinical discussions. For those of you unable to make this first workshop, I will be running these workshops again in 2016. Due to significant interstate demand, I’ll also be running this workshop […]
My paper entitled “Is this working? The importance of outcome measures in herbal & naturopathic practice” has just been published in the most recent issue of the Australian Journal of Herbal Medicine (Volume 27 Issue 3, September 2015). Continue reading for the abstract of the paper, and a special offer for practitioners. The commentary piece, based upon my […]
With the removal of the Advanced Diplomas of Naturopathy, Western Herbal Medicine, Nutritional Medicine and Homoeopathy, from the Health Training Package at the end of this year, training providers initially thought they had 18 months to teach out students already enrolled in December 2015. That was then extended to 2 years with some recent changes […]
Dr Sue Evans PhD and Dr Cathy Avila PhD are gathering research data on how herbal practitioners make decisions about their dispensary stock. So if you are herbalist or naturopath, and have any input or involvement in stocking or choosing products for your dispensary, I really encourage you to participate. Participation is painless – an online […]
Today is Day 2 of the NHAA 9th International Conference on Herbal Medicine, and at midday today I’ll be presenting on something I’m quite passionate about – outcome measures in clinical practice. Day 1 was awesome, with some great speakers and time to catch up with colleagues. Today is looking just as great, with some […]
My mission is to inspire, educate and help people with herbal and naturopathic medicine. I bring more than 20 years of clinical, academic, and industry experience - and a Masters degree in Herbal Medicines - to this passion.