Updated: 11/20/07

Cancer Researchers and CAM Practitioners:
Fostering Collaborations; Advancing the Science
October 22-23, 2007
Natcher Conference Center
Bethesda, MD

Archived NIH Videocast sessions of the two-day conference (October 22 and 23, 2007) are now available.

Conference Day 1- October 22, 2007
Total Running Time: 7 hours and 15 minutes.

Conference Day 2- October 23, 2007
Total Running Time: 1 hour and 22 minutes.

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About
Agenda

About

The National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) has long recognized that building and sustaining strong interdisciplinary partnerships is a critical factor in the success of some cancer complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research endeavors. In light of this awareness, we would like to further examine the dynamics of the collaboration between cancer researchers and CAM practitioners during the conference Cancer Researcher & CAM Practitioners: Fostering Collaborations; Advancing the Science.

The conference will be held on the NIH campus on October 22-23, 2007 and will allow us to bring together members of both these communities who are interested in exploring how to more effectively build research partnerships with one another. This conference will focus on the various facets of successful and unsuccessful collaborations and is being developed to attempt to describe “best practices”.

Goals:
Primary

Provide an opportunity for NCI staff to learn about the important issues in the development, support and implementation of research projects involving collaborations between CAM practitioners and cancer researchers
Foster interaction and dialog between CAM practitioners and cancer researchers about directions and priorities in cancer research
Provide the cancer research and CAM practitioner communities an opportunity to identify and discuss the major issues involved in producing successful research partnerships

Identify and document examples of effective research partnerships that can be used to gain a better understanding of issues important in optimizing such collaborative research

Begin to define best practices in collaborative research designed to develop appropriate prospective research to study CAM practices

Secondary

Provide greater exchange of information between cancer researchers and CAM practitioners possibly leading to the formation of specific practitioner-researcher collaborative projects
Provide an opportunity for NCI, NCCAM, and CSR staff involved in program development and grant review to be exposed to some of the highest level research of this type
Provide the attending researchers and practitioners with information relevant to the review of such grants

Audience:
Primary

NCI Staff
Cancer researchers interested in collaborating with CAM practitioners on prospective research
CAM practitioners interested in collaborating with cancer researchers on prospective research

Guest Attendees

Other NIH program and review staff
Interested intramural investigators
International contacts interested in collaborative cancer CAM research
Other granting organizations

Agenda

Natcher Conference Center Monday, October 22, 2007
7:30-8:30 a.m.	Registration
All Sessions in Balconies B & C Unless Noted Otherwise
8:30-8:40 a.m.	Welcome and Introductory Remarks Jeffrey D. White, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI
8:40-9:00 a.m.	Research of Cancer CAM Practices: The NCI Experience and Approach Jeffrey D. White, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI

9:00-9:40 a.m.	Why Collaborate? Chair: Jeffrey D. White, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI Panelists: Keith Block, The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Care Wayne Jonas, Samueli Institute Barbara Sorkin, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH Loice Swisher, Patient Advocate

Session 1. Chair: Wayne Jonas	How to Develop Relationships and Prevent Issues
9:40-10:00 a.m.	*Are You a Good Date or a Bad Date?* Ellen Goldstein, University of California, San Francisco
10:00-10:20 a.m.	*Rethinking Scientific Teams: Authorship, Competition, Conflict, and Collaboration* Howard Gadlin, Center for Cooperative Resolution, NIH
10:20-10:40 a.m.	*Lessons Learned about Collaborative Teams from the NIH Intramural Research* *Program* Michelle Bennett, Center for Cancer Research, NCI
10:40-10:45 a.m.	Q&A

10:45-11:00 a.m.	Coffee break

Session 2. Chair: Wayne Jonas	How to Sustain Relationships and Conflict Resolution
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	*Social Management of CAM Cancer Research* Wayne Jonas, Samueli Institute Mitch Hammer, Hammer Consulting, LLC.
12:00-12:20 p.m.	Legal Issues Affecting Collaboration Physician/Patient Originated Studies in CAM Cancer Methods Alan Dumoff, Law Offices of Alan Dumoff
12:20-12:25 p.m.	Q&A

12:25-1:25 p.m.	Lunch break (on your own)

Session 3. Chair: Jeffrey D. White	Aspects of Successful Collaborations
1:25-1:45 p.m.	*Mega-dose Vitamins and Minerals in the Treatment of Non-metastatic Breast Cancer* Mary L. Lesperance, University of Victoria, British Columbia
1:45-2:05 p.m.	*Successful Integrative - Oncology Collaboration: Power in Partnerships* Jeanne Drisko, The University of Kansas School of Medicine
2:05-2:30 p.m.	*Vitamin C: Tight Control, CAM, and Cancer* Mark Levine, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
2:30-2:50 p.m.	*Intravenous Vitamin C: A Model for CAM-informed Clinical Investigation* L. John Hoffer, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
2:50-3:20 p.m.	*Macrobiotics and Cancer: Aspects of Successful Collaborations* *A Personal Perspective* Lawrence Kushi, Kaiser Permanente Macrobiotics and Cancer: Aspects of Successful Collaborations Gordon Saxe, University of California, San Diego
3:20-3:25 p.m.	Q&A

3:25-3:40 p.m.	Coffee break

Session 4. Chair: Jeffrey D. White	Examples of Successful Collaborations
3:40-4:05 p.m.	*Collaboration Between A Scientist and A CAM Practitioner* Gwen Wyatt, Michigan State University College of Nursing Barbara Brower, Branch Reflexology Institute
4:05-4:25 p.m.	*Clinical Trials of SV MIX for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer* Henry Sacks, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City
4:25-4:45 p.m.	*Developing and Managing A Collaborative Relationships in TACT* Gervasio Lamas, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami
4:45-5:05 p.m.	*How A Cancer Geneticist Collaborated with A* *CAM* *Practitioner in Homeopathy?* Sen Pathak, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
5:05-5:10 p.m.	Q&A
5:10-5:15 p.m.	Closing Remarks Jeffrey D. White, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI

Natcher Conference Center Tuesday, October 23, 2007
8:30-9:00 a.m. Opening Day 2 Room: Balconies B & C
8:30-8:50 a.m.	Follow Up to Day 1 Q&A Jeffrey D. White, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI
8:50-9:00 a.m.	Charge to Breakouts Jeffrey D. White, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI
9:00-10:30 a.m. Breakout Sessions Lower Level, Rooms: B, C1/C2, D, F1/F2
Group 1	Developing CAM for Cancer: U.S. Regulations Chair: Freddie Ann Hoffman, HeteroGeneity, LLC Room:F1/F2
9:00-9:05 a.m.	Orientation from Chair
9:05-9:15 a.m.	*Regulation of CAM - A U.S. Perspective* Freddie Ann Hoffman, HeteroGeneity, LLC
9:15-9:35 a.m.	*Clinical Issues in Cancer-Related Botanical INDs* Qin Ryan, Food and Drug Administration
9:35-9:55 a.m.	Nonclinical Recommendations for Botanical Products as A New Anticancer Drug Wei Chen, Food and Drug Administration
9:55-10:15 a.m.	*Developing Plant Derived Mixtures as Botanical New Drugs* Jinhui Dou, Food and Drug Administration
10:15-10:25 a.m.	Q&A
10:25-10:30 a.m.	Summary/Wrap-up by Chair
Group 2	Understanding & Designing Clinical Case Reports Chair: Farah Zia, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI Room: D
9:00-9:05 a.m.	Orientation from Chair
9:05-9:50 a.m.	*Writing Comprehensive Cases for Publication* Janet Kahn, Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium
9:50-10:10 a.m.	NCI Best Case Series Program Goals, Criteria and Outcome Measures CDR Colleen Lee, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI
10:10-10:25 a.m.	Q&A
10:25-10:30 a.m.	Summary/Wrap-up by Chair
Group 3	Funding Sources: Federal and Non-federal Chair: Wm. Phillip Tonkins, Jr., Scientific Program Analyst, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI Room: C1/C2
9:00-9:05 a.m.	Orientation from Chair
9:05-9:15 a.m.	*Cancer CAM Funding Opportunities* Wm. Phillip Tonkins, Jr., Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI
9:15-9:30 a.m.	*NCCAM Approaches to Support of CAM Research Collaborations* Barbara Sorkin, Program Officer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH
9:30-9:45 a.m. 9:45-10:00 a.m. 10:00-10:15 a.m.	Non-federal Funding Sources *Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation* Angela Webster, Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation *Research Programs and Funding Opportunities at the Samueli Institute* Matthew Fritts, Samueli Institute *Research Funding for* *CAM* Gail Mallory, Oncology Nursing Society Foundation
10:15-10:25 a.m.	Q&A
10:25-10:30 a.m.	Summary/Wrap-up by Chair
Group 4	Research Basics and Training Opportunities for CAM Practitioners Chair: Jeanne Drisko, The University of Kansas School of Medicine Room: B
9:00-9:05 a.m.	Orientation from the Chair
9:05-9:25 a.m.	*Getting from There to Here: Collaborating Inside the Belly of the Beas*t Jeanne Drisko, The University of Kansas School of Medicine
9:25-9:45 a.m.	*Basic Approaches to CAM Research and Training* Keith Block, Block Center for Integrative Cancer Care *Reaching Out to the University: What to Do and How to Learn About It Once You Have A Collaborator* Charlotte Gyllenhaal, The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Care
9:45-10:10 a.m.	*Reiki Vibrational Healing: Integrating Traditional Healing and Conventional Health Care* Pamela Miles, Reiki Master
10:10-10:25 a.m.	Q&A
10:25-10:30 a.m.	Summary/Wrap-up by Chair

10:30-10:45 a.m.	Coffee break

10:45-12:00 p.m. Poster Session First Floor Atrium
12:00-1:00 p.m.	Lunch (on your own)
1:00-2:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions Lower Level, Rooms: B, C1/C2, D, F1/F2
Group 1	Developing CAM for Cancer: U.S. Regulations Chair: Freddie Ann Hoffman, Heterogeneity, LLC Room: F1/F2
1:00-1:05 p.m.	Orientation from Chair
1:05-1:15 p.m.	*Regulation of CAM - A U.S. Perspective* Freddie Ann Hoffman, HeteroGeneity, LLC
1:15-1:35 p.m.	*Clinical Issues in Cancer-Related Botanical INDs* Qin Ryan, Food and Drug Administration
1:35-1:55p.m.	Nonclinical Recommendations for Botanical Products as A New Anticancer Drug Wei Chen, Food and Drug Administration
1:55-2:15 p.m.	*Developing Plant Derived Mixtures as Botanical New Drugs* Jinhui Dou, Food and Drug Administration
2:15-2:25 p.m.	Q&A
2:25-2:30 p.m.	Summary/Wrap-up by Chair
Group 2	Understanding & Designing Clinical Case Reports Chair: Farah Zia, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI Room: D
1:00-1:05 p.m.	Orientation from Chair
1:05-1:50 p.m.	*Writing Comprehensive Cases for Publication* Janet Kahn, Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium
1:50-2:10 p.m.	NCI Best Case Series Program Goals, Criteria and Outcome Measures Colleen Lee, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI
2:10-2:25 p.m.	Q&A
2:25-2:30 p.m.	Summary/Wrap-up by Chair
Group 3	Funding Sources: Federal and Non-federal Chair: Wm. Phillip Tonkins, Jr., Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI Room: C1/C2
1:00-1:05 p.m.	Orientation from Chair
1:05-1:15 p.m.	*Cancer* *CAM* *Funding Opportunities* Wm. Phillip Tonkins, Jr., Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI
1:15-1:30 p.m.	*NCCAM Approaches to Support of CAM Research Collaborations* Barbara Sorkin, Program Officer, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH
1:30-1:45 p.m. 1:45-2:00 p.m. 2:00-2:15 p.m.	Non-federal Funding Sources *Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation* Angela Webster, Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation *Research Programs and Funding Opportunities at the Samueli Institute* Matthew Fritts, Samueli Institute *Research Funding for CAM* Gail Mallory, Oncology Nursing Society Foundation
2:15-2:25 p.m.	Q&A
2:25-2:30 p.m.	Summary/Wrap-up by Chair
Group 4	Research Basics and Training Opportunities for CAM Practitioners Chair: Jeanne Drisko, The University of Kansas School of Medicine Room: B
1:00-1:05 p.m.	Orientation from the Chair
1:05-1:25 p.m.	*Getting from There to Here: Collaborating Inside the Belly of the Beast* Jeanne Drisko, The University of Kansas School of Medicine
1:25-1:45 p.m.	*Basic Approaches to CAM Research and Training* Keith Block, The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Care *Reaching Out to the University: What to Do and How to Learn About It Once You Have A Collaborator* Charlotte Gyllenhaal, The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Care
1:45-2:10 p.m.	*Reiki Vibrational Healing: Integrating Traditional Healing and Conventional Health Care* Pamela Miles, Reiki Master
2:10-2:25 p.m.	Q&A
2:25-2:30 p.m.	Summary/Wrap-up by Chair
2:30-3:35 p.m. Poster Session First Floor Atrium

3:35-3:50 p.m.	Coffee break

3:50-5:00 p.m.	Standing in the Middle: Bridges between Cancer Researchers and CAM Practitioners Chair: Jeffrey D. White, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI Room: Balconies B & C Panelists: Jeanne Drisko, The University of Kansas School of Medicine Wayne Jonas, Samueli Institute Lawrence Kushi, Kaiser Permanente Pamela Miles, Reiki Master Gordon Saxe, University of California, San Diego Q&A

5:00-5:10 p.m.	Closing Remarks Jeffrey D. White, Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI

Cancer Researchers and CAM Practitioners: Fostering Collaborations; Advancing the Science October 22-23, 2007 Natcher Conference Center Bethesda, MD

About

Agenda

Cancer Researchers and CAM Practitioners:
Fostering Collaborations; Advancing the Science
October 22-23, 2007
Natcher Conference Center
Bethesda, MD