Re: Seminar: Herbal lMedicine for Childrens' Health Sun 16 March

[Guest guest]

Dear UK Herbal-List members.

You would be welcome to attend the following meeting at the University of

Reading. Plenty of parking places on a Sunday. Hope to see you there. Best

wishes Ann

College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy

Continuing Professional Development Seminar Series

" Children’s Health "

&

" Making More of Case Histories "

Sunday, 16 March 2008, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm

The Nike Lecture Theatre, Department of Agriculture,

The University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AR

PROGRAMME

9.30 am REGISTRATION and Coffee

Chair - Liz Copeland

10.00 am Dr Saul Berkovitz: 'Strengthening our case for herbal

efficacy: the three-cornered stool' (research, audit, case histories)?

10.30 am Dr McCarthy: Writing up Case Histories for publication.

11.00 am Coffee

11.30 am Dr Ann : Nutrition: The basis of children’s health -

with special reference to allergic conditions.

12.15 am Dr Seréne : Dealing with childhood respiratory

conditions.

1.00 pm Lunch

1.55 pm Robbins: Dealing with childhood digestive

conditions

2.40 pm Emma Salmon: The role of herbal medicine in the management of

cystic fibrosis.

3.25 pm Tea

3.45 pm Members’ case histories. A presentation of individual case

histories by CPP members

4.30 pm Finish

Fees (lunch included): CPP members: £45.00; Non-Members: £65.00; Students:

£35.00.

Attendance at this event will attract 4 CPP/CPD credits.

CPP Members: On the day, please obtain an authorised signature to the reverse of

your ticket

Please send cheque, made payable to College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy,

to:

Pam Bull, CPP, Oak Glade, 9 Hythe Close, Polegate, East Sussex, BN26 6LQ.

Tel: 01323 .... 10 am – 5 pm. Email: pamela.bull@...

www.phytotherapists.org [Card facilities are available]

Biographies of Chair/Speakers

Liz Copeland

Liz Copeland is an experienced herbalist who qualified in western herbal

medicine in 1992. She has experience of treating a wide variety of illnesses and

is interested in pursuing a holistic approach to treatment including herbs,

lifestyle and dietary changes. With a degree in Natural Sciences from the

University of Cambridge (where she specialised in biochemistry) Liz has always

been interested in the biochemical and physiological imbalances that lead to

disease. Recently she has extended her studies into nutrition by completing a

degree in Nutritional Therapy. Liz lectures at the University of Westminster,

the Institute for Optimum Nutrition and the Centre for Nutrition Education &

Lifestyle Management. She is a regular contributor to the nutrition journal

“The Nutrition Practitionerâ€, writing articles on the phytochemistry and

clinical applications of herbs. She is currently researching the role of stress

in metabolic illness.

Dr Saul Berkowitz

Saul Berkowitz graduated from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in

1993. After obtaining MRCP, he studied and worked at Royal London Homeopathic

Hospital (RLHH), obtaining MFHom in 1998. He was fortunate to train as the UK's

first 'Integrated Medicine' specialist registrar, between the Whittington

Hospital, London (as a respiratory medicine registrar) and the RLHH, obtaining

his CCST in 2004. After a 'gap year' in New Zealand and the Far East, he became

a consultant physician at the RLHH (now part of University College NHS Trust)

and recently studied Western herbal medicine at the University of East London,

qualifying in 2006. Saul sees patients with a variety of chronic medical

problems, including chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatological,

gastroenterological and dermatological disorders. He has recently set up the

first fully NHS-funded Western herbal medicine service, and is interested in

developing robust routine outcome data to

demonstrate and enhance the effectiveness of herbal medicine.

Dr McCarthy

McCarthy is a Reader at the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic, Faculty of

Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan. Interest in herbal

medicine started following his first degree in Pharmacology and Physiology (Univ

of Manchester), gained a PhD (St s University; 1986) following which he

undertook research at Bristol University Medical School, Marine Biological

Association Laboratories, Plymouth; Max Planck Institute, Bad Nauheim; Playfair

Institute Toronto amongst other places. Interest in herbal medicine derived from

his pharmacology training, he qualified as a medical herbalist through the

School of Phytotherapy (2000): his wife Lee having qualified 4 years previously.

He was course leader in the early days of the chiropractic degree course at

University of Glamorgan, where he is now establishing a research base for the

subject. He has been editor of the European Journal of Herbal Medicine, is on

the editorial board of

Clinical Chiropractic and reviews articles for various peer-reviewed journals.

has published over 40 research peer-reviewed articles as well as a

numerous smaller works including book chapters and case studies.

Dr Ann

Ann is part-time Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition in the Hugh Sinclair

Unit of Human Nutrition at the School of Chemistry, Food Biosciences & Pharmacy

at The University of Reading. After 20 years as a University teacher at

Reading, she became interested in the medicinal uses of herbs, when her husband,

Alan, who had chronic fatigue syndrome, successfully responded to treatment by

Chinese Herbal Medicine. While holding down her post at Reading, Ann retrained

as a herbal practitioner in the ‘western’ mode, qualifying in 1994. She

runs a Clinic from her home 2 days a week where she treats patients suffering

from a wide variety of conditions with a combination of nutrition and herbal

medicine. At the University of Reading her clinical studies have involved the

therapeutic efficacy of nutrients and plant extracts. Her studies have involved

volunteers with a range of health problems, including PMS, adverse menopausal

symptoms, type II diabetes

and hypertension. She is the author of several books on human nutrition and

many scientific papers. She is currently Director of Continuing Professional

Development of the CPP and is Co-Director, with her husband, of “Discovering

Herbal Medicine†- a 12 month home-study course.

(www.newvitality.org.uk).

Dr Seréne

Seréne has been associated with Hyde’s Herbal Clinic for 8 years. She is a

highly qualified Immunologist with 18 years experience in Medical research at

some of the country’s leading Institutions, including: the Radcliffe

Hospital in Oxford; the Imperial Cancer Research Fund; St ’s Hospital

Medical School, London; St s Hospital Medical School, London; and

Leicester University in Immunotoxicology. Seréne has specialised in the

immunology of transplantation, virology and respiratory medicine. She has

published in many scientific journals, on “Mite allergens†in the Journal of

Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and more recently on “Contaminants of indoor

air†in the journal Immunology. Seréne’s years of experience as an

Immunologist combines well with her experience as a Medical Herbalist, striving

for optimum immune function as a key to good health. Her current research

interests are examining specific immune functions

of herbs, such as Echinacea and Phytolacca, and she has recently written a

report on “Echinacea and the common coldâ€.

Robbins

has worked in agricultural research, food and health planning in

Africa and in the UK, and has researched and trained both public and private

institutions in food policy and planning. A member of the CPP,

qualified as a medical herbalist over 15 years ago and practices in his own

health centre in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire (UK). He also teaches herbal

medicine at the University of Westminster in London and to home users through

adult education. He runs courses on home remedies, healthy eating, wild food

foraging, fungi etc. As an author, he writes books on health and consumer

issues and is both a print and a broadcast journalist, with columns in magazines

and newspapers and occasionally appearances on radio and TV.

Emma Salmon

After a career in the fashion and media business, a change of direction led to

Emma gaining a BSc in Herbal Medicine from the University of East London in

2006, completing most of her training whilst the Course was still run by the

College of Phytotherapy. Her interest in the management of Cystic Fibrosis began

when her, then, 4 year old daughter was diagnosed with the disease during the

2nd year of the Course, and so Emma has developed relationships with both the CF

trust and several parents of CF children in regards to this. Her final year

research into the role of herbal medicine in the treatment of CF was recognised

as an innovative piece of work by the NIMH, and was awarded the Nigel Winn award

for student projects. Since graduating she has worked in Battle with Herbal

Practitioner Jackie Saull-Hunt, and is in the process of setting up a dedicated

Clinic of Herbal Medicine on an organic farm which will specialise in

children’s health and provide

the setting for an educational facility. Emma also runs a design company,

producing eco products such as organic childrenswear, hand crafted cloth

nappies, and baby-related herbal items.