Second International Symposium on Traditional Medicine and Contemplative Practices

New York: Dr Dawa, a former Director of the India-based Tibetan Medical and Astrology Institute, will be one of the keynote speakers of the Second International Symposium on Traditional Medicine and Contemplative Practices scheduled to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 17 and 18 September 2010.
Other keynote speakers are Dr Shirley Telles, a renowned Indian scientist specialised in Yoga science who is the principal investigator for the Indian Council of Medical Research at the Center for Advance Research in Yoga and Neurophysiology at the Bangalore-based Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, and Dr Tamara A. Russell, a clinical psychologist who teaches at King’s College, London, as well as at Western Psychiatric Institute of Pittsburgh University in the United States.
The symposium will explore four major topics which include a Current Overview of the Implementation of Traditional Medicine; Research in Traditional Medicine and Contemplative Practices; the Role of Traditional Medicine and Contemplative Practices, and Traditional Medicine and Herbal Drugs.
The Brazilian speakers for the symposium include, among others, Dr Luiz Eugenio Mello, Dean of the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP); Prof Lia Diskin of the Palas Athena Association; Prof Dr Angela Tabosa, Deputy Head of the UNIFESP’s Department of Chinese Medicine; Prof Dr Edson Amaro Jr of the University of Sao Paulo; Prof Dr Nelson Filice de Barros of University of Campinas; Prof Dr Mario Prieto Peres, Neurology Professor of the UNIFESP; Dr Sheila Busato, a technical advisor to the Municipal Health Secretariat of Sao Paulo; Dr Edward Pagani, Director of the Fitomedicina Brazilian Medical Association; Dr Paulo de Tarso Lima of Albert Einstein Hospital; Dr Fernando Bignardi of the UNIFESP’s Department of Preventive Medicine; and Prof Dr Claudia Pellegrino Negrao, a research board member of Natura, the Brazilian leading manufacturer and marketer of skin care, solar filters, cosmetics, perfume and hair care products.
The symposium is open to professionals, Ph D. candidates, and graduate students in the field of medicine and health science from different states of Brazil. The organisers are expecting 400 participants to the symposium.  The first symposium on traditional medicine and contemplative practices held in Sao Paulo in September 2008 drew over 300 professionals, Ph. D. candidates, and graduate students from different states of Brazil.  Dr Pema Dorjee represented the Tibetan Medical and Astrology Institute at the first symposium.
The symposium is jointly organised by the Federal University of Sao Paulo and Palas Athena Association. This initiative is a part of the collaborative work between Federal University of Sao Paolo’s School of Medicine and the Tibetan Medical and Astrology Institute (Men-Tsee-Khang) undertaken under a formal agreement.  Prof Lia Diskin, Co-founder of the Palas Athena Association and the TGIE’s Liaison Officer to the Latin America, Tsewang Phuntso, facilitated the collaboration between the two institutions.
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