Ethics & Evidence-based Medicine in Integrative Healthcare Part 1

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Health care practitioners of all types face ethical dilemmas each and every day in practice. Integrative health (IH) practitioners particularly find themselves navigating in ethically challenging waters. The more recent emergence of evidence-based medicine/evidence informed practice intersects with ethical traditions of Integrative Healthcare clinicians. This two-part presentation is intended to provide a guide to evaluating the ethical dimensions and decision making in commonly encountered scenarios in evidence based Integrative Healthcare practice.

Through didactic instruction, group discussion, and experiential learning, attendees will:

Assess their own ethical perspectives.
Review the development of biomedical ethics with a particular focus on the history and the current state of ethical thought in the Integrative Healthcare professions.

Chuck Simpson

DC, DABCO

Chuck Simpson, DC, DABCO, graduated from, Washington State University and received a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from University of Western States in 1978. From 1979 until 2003, he maintained a private chiropractic practice in Cornelius, Oregon, an ethnically diverse community near Portland.

He served on the Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners and has volunteered for the Council on Chiropractic Education as a site visitor and as a CCE Councilor. He has been an ACA Member since 1989 and currently is a member of the Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

He has contributed textbook chapters to Quality and Standards of Practice in Chiropractic, Integrating Complementary Medicine in Health Systems, and Bonica’s Management of Pain. He was a content expert for the NIH Center for Substance Abuse and Treatment clinical practice guideline Managing Chronic Pain in Persons with or in recovery from Substance Abuse Disorders and has published reviews of complementary medicine in chronic pain treatment for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America.

In his nonprofessional life, he enjoys sailing, kayaking, gardening, and reading.