ACIH
COUNCIL
ACIH
COUNCIL
The Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH) merged with Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM) in 2021 and remains intact as business unit within AIHM. The ACIH Council is involved in and supports a wide range of activities and projects in the areas of education, clinical care, and research that contribute to transforming our health care system to one that emphasizes the importance of creating health and well-being.
COUNCIL CORE
MEMBERSHIP
Our core Organizational Membership consists of councils of colleges and schools, accrediting agencies, and certification and testing organizations associated with the five licensed integrative health and medicine professions that have a federally recognized accrediting agency.
Acupuncture & East Asian Medicine
Chiropractic
Direct Entry (Home Birth) Midwifery
Massage Therapy
Naturopathic Medicine
Our membership also includes the Council Chair from the Traditional World Medicines and Emerging Professions Council and the Council Chair from the Individual Colleges Council.
ACIH
COUNCIL
Dale Healey, DC, PhD, ACIH Chair
Steffany Moonaz, PhD C-IAYT, ACIH Secretary
TWM/EP Council Representative
JoAnn Yanez, ND, MPH, CAE, ACIH Immediate-Past Chair
Iman Majd, MD, MS, EAMP/LAc
David O’Bryon, JD, CAE
Norman Ouzts, Jr., DC
Fraser Smith, BA, MATD, ND, CNS
Mark Mckenzie, LAc, PhD (China), MSOM, ACIH Chair
Stacy Gomes, EdD, MAEd, ACIH Executive Committee Member-At-Large
Elizabeth Goldblatt, PhD, MPA/HA
ACIH Founder
Rosalia Messina, EdD, MPA/H
Individual College Chair
Joni Olehausen, ND
Pamela Snider, ND
ACIH Founder
WORKING
GROUPS OVERVIEW
AIHM utilizes Working Groups to carry out projects and tasks aligned with furthering the AIHM mission of clinical care, research, and education. Members of Working Groups are researchers, educators, and clinical educators who are typically connected with schools organizational members. Each Working Group meets approximately 5 times a year.
Working Group members volunteer to work on projects to further our collective values, mission, and vision.
Clinical Working Group
clinical education
Education Working Group
healthcare education.
Research Working Group
educational projects
Co-Chairs
Marcia Prenguber, ND Past President, Council on Naturopathic Medical Education; Dean, College of Naturopathic Medicine, University of Bridgeport
Sivarama “Prasad” Vinjamury, MD (Ayurveda), MAOM, MPH, Professor, Research Director, Capstone Research, Southern California University of Health Sciences
Clinical Working Group
The focus of the Clinical Working Group is to identify and advance projects in clinical education that cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding and respect among professions. By enhancing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors (KSABs) of individuals involved in integrated clinical settings, the Clinical Working Group aims to nurture and develop integrated and collaborative patient care.
Co-Chairs
Dale Healey College of Health and Wellness, Northwestern Health Sciences University; ACIH Board representing Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation
Beth Howlett, DAOM, LAc Vice President of Academics, AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine
Education Working Group
The focus of the Education Working Group (EWG) is on identifying and advancing educational projects that foster inter-disciplinary understanding and respect among professions. These projects inform students, practitioners, educators and the public about the role of interprofessional education in the advancement of integrative healthcare values and practices. EWG supports interprofessional education among the ACIH disciplines as well as the broader healthcare community.
Co-Chairs
Belinda Anderson, PhD, LAc Associate Dean of Allied Health Programs in the College of Health Professions, Pace University in New York City.
Kieran Cooley, BSc, ND Director, Research; Visiting Research Fellow, ARCCIM, Faculty of Health, UTS, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
Research Working Group
The focus of the Research Working Group (RWG) is to promote mutual understanding, collaborative activities, and interdisciplinary health care education through research. The broad priorities of the RWG are: shifting the culture at CAM institutions to better embrace research; redirecting the research agenda regarding these disciplines so that it is of greater use to the members of the professions; and building research capacity within the ACIH disciplines.
Clinical Working Group
clinical education
Co-Chairs
Marcia Prenguber, ND Past President, Council on Naturopathic Medical Education; Dean, College of Naturopathic Medicine, University of Bridgeport
Sivarama “Prasad” Vinjamury, MD (Ayurveda), MAOM, MPH, Professor, Research Director, Capstone Research, Southern California University of Health Sciences
Clinical Working Group
The focus of the Clinical Working Group is to identify and advance projects in clinical education that cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding and respect among professions. By enhancing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors (KSABs) of individuals involved in integrated clinical settings, the Clinical Working Group aims to nurture and develop integrated and collaborative patient care.
Education Working Group
healthcare education.
Co-Chairs
Dale Healey, DC, PhD* Dean, College of Health and Wellness, Northwestern Health Sciences University; ACIH Board representing Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation
Beth Howlett, DAOM, LAc Vice President of Academics, AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine
Clinical Working Group
The focus of the Clinical Working Group is to identify and advance projects in clinical education that cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding and respect among professions. By enhancing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors (KSABs) of individuals involved in integrated clinical settings, the Clinical Working Group aims to nurture and develop integrated and collaborative patient care.
Research Working Group
educational projects
Co-Chairs
Belinda Anderson, PhD, LAc Associate Dean of Allied Health Programs in the College of Health Professions, Pace University in New York City.
Kieran Cooley, BSc, ND Director, Research; Visiting Research Fellow, ARCCIM, Faculty of Health, UTS, The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
Clinical Working Group
The focus of the Clinical Working Group is to identify and advance projects in clinical education that cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding and respect among professions. By enhancing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors (KSABs) of individuals involved in integrated clinical settings, the Clinical Working Group aims to nurture and develop integrated and collaborative patient care.
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