Margaret A. Chesney - Outsmarting Stress and Enhancing Resilience

 

Dr. Margaret Chesney is author of Women, Stress, and Heart Disease, as well as other books. She is the Director of the UC San Francisco Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and she served for five years as the first deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).

Among her many papers, I find these most interesting:

• Garrett K, Okuyama S, Jones W, Barnes D, Tran Z, Spencer L, Lewis K, Maroni P, Chesney M, Marcus A. Bridging the transition from cancer patient to survivor: Pilot study results of the Cancer Survivor Telephone Education and Personal Support (C-STEPS) program. Patient Educ Couns. 2013 Aug; 92(2):266-72.  View in: PubMed
• Witt CM, Chesney M, Gliklich R, Green L, Lewith G, Luce B, McCaffrey A, Rafferty Withers S, Sox HC, Tunis S, Berman BM. Building a strategic framework for comparative effectiveness research in complementary and integrative medicine. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012; 2012:531096.  View in: PubMed
• Kimbrough E, Magyari T, Langenberg P, Chesney M, Berman B. Mindfulness intervention for child abuse survivors. J Clin Psychol. 2010 Jan; 66(1):17-33.  View in: PubMed
• Lane RD, Waldstein SR, Chesney MA, Jennings JR, Lovallo WR, Kozel PJ, Rose RM, Drossman DA, Schneiderman N, Thayer JF, Cameron OG. The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part I: historical context, methods, and relevant basic science. Psychosom Med. 2009 Feb; 71(2):117-34.  View in: PubMed
• Lane RD, Waldstein SR, Critchley HD, Derbyshire SW, Drossman DA, Wager TD, Schneiderman N, Chesney MA, Jennings JR, Lovallo WR, Rose RM, Thayer JF, Cameron OG. The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part II: clinical applications and implications for research. Psychosom Med. 2009 Feb; 71(2):135-51.  View in: PubMed

These final two will be the topic of another post - Dr. Lane, the lead author, is faculty at the University of Arizona and I will be seeing him speak next week.

Also online is her talk from 2010, Mind-Body Interventions: Is there Power in Positive Thinking?
 

Outsmarting Stress and Enhancing Resilience

Published on Oct 17, 2013

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Margaret A. Chesney, UCSF Professor of Medicine and Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, discusses techniques for managing stress. Series: "UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine presents Mini Medical School for the Public" [11/2013]

Transitioning to Integrative Medicine

From Emory University, this is a useful talk on how we can move toward an integrative medicine model.

Transitioning to Integrative Medicine
Published on Apr 3, 2013

Dr. Yoon Hang John Kim talks about integrative medicine, a healing-oriented approach that takes account of the whole person (body, emotion, and spirit) including all aspects of lifestyle (March 26, 2013). Integrative medicine emphasizes the healing relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative, including:

• Conventional Medicine
• Homeopathy
• Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs
• Energy Healing
• Nutrition - Food As Medicine, Anti-inflammatory Foods, Low Glycemic Foods, and Hypoallergenic Food Choices
• Naturopathy
• Mind-Body Medicine

His talk was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Human Health (CSHH), which was established to centralize and organize Emory's rich resource base of opportunities in health-related studies. The Center provides a home for unique interdisciplinary undergraduate curricula, as well as a functional unit where an interdisciplinary faculty-based consortium can develop path-breaking programs and research.

Victoria Lemle Beckner - Science of the Mind: How the Brain Works to Regulate Mood, Emotions, and Stress

This talk comes from the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Beckner talks here on what we call evidence-based psychotherapy (which generally means one of the generic, manualized therapies like CBT or REBT or Solution-Focused Brief Therapy) - in fact, she is part of a group practice called The San Francisco Group for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy.

She is lead author on Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Newest Techniques for Overcoming Symptoms, Regaining Hope, and Getting Your Life Back.

The Science and Art of Psychotherapy: Insider's Guide

Victoria Lemle Beckner, Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, discusses the different approaches to psychotherapy and how research informs clinical practice to help patients achieve lasting improvement. Series: "UCSF Osher Mini Medical School for the Public" [5/2012]