The 2024 VBMA/ACVBM Annual Conference will be held ONLINE on Saturday, November 9th, 2024 and feature Jody Noe MS ND.
The ACVBM will be joining us in this educational venture and are sponsoring speaker Brendan Kelly L.Ac. on Sunday, November 10th.
The ACVBM will be joining us in this educational venture and are sponsoring speaker Brendan Kelly L.Ac. on Sunday, November 10th.
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All registrations will be processed through the ACVBM.
PRICING FOR CURRENT VBMA/ACVBM MEMBERS:
Saturday 11/9/24 Only - Includes lectures by VBMA Sponsored Speaker Jody Noe, MS, ND $175.00
Sunday 11/10/24 Only - Includes lectures by ACVBM Sponsored Speaker Brendan Kelly, L.Ac. $175.00
Both Saturday and Sunday - Includes lectures by VBMA Sponsored Speaker Jody Noe, MS, ND and ACVBM Sponsored Speaker Brendan Kelly, L.Ac. $325.00
PRICING FOR NON-MEMBERS:
Saturday 11/9/24 Only - Includes lectures by VBMA Sponsored Speaker Jody Noe, MS, ND $220.00
Sunday 11/10/24 Only - Includes lectures by ACVBM Sponsored Speaker Brendan Kelly, L.Ac. $220.00
Both Saturday and Sunday - Includes lectures by VBMA Sponsored Speaker Jody Noe, MS, ND and ACVBM Sponsored Speaker Brendan Kelly, L.Ac. $425.00
Saturday 11/9/24 Only - Includes lectures by VBMA Sponsored Speaker Jody Noe, MS, ND $175.00
Sunday 11/10/24 Only - Includes lectures by ACVBM Sponsored Speaker Brendan Kelly, L.Ac. $175.00
Both Saturday and Sunday - Includes lectures by VBMA Sponsored Speaker Jody Noe, MS, ND and ACVBM Sponsored Speaker Brendan Kelly, L.Ac. $325.00
PRICING FOR NON-MEMBERS:
Saturday 11/9/24 Only - Includes lectures by VBMA Sponsored Speaker Jody Noe, MS, ND $220.00
Sunday 11/10/24 Only - Includes lectures by ACVBM Sponsored Speaker Brendan Kelly, L.Ac. $220.00
Both Saturday and Sunday - Includes lectures by VBMA Sponsored Speaker Jody Noe, MS, ND and ACVBM Sponsored Speaker Brendan Kelly, L.Ac. $425.00
VBMA SPEAKER TOPIC INFORMATION
Jody will be lecturing for three hours on Cherokee Medicine and three hours on The Gut Brain Connection.
In recent years, much has been discovered about the structure and function of the gut, not just as an organ of digestion and absorption but also as a barrier against the passage of pathogens and endotoxins. A healthy gut, with its tight junctions intact, effectively prevents the passage of macromolecules into the bloodstream. Any impairment in the modulation of the intestinal barrier can readily result in pathological increase in permeability of the intestinal mucosa, or leaky gut syndrome. An increase in intestinal permeability (IP) leads to increased absorption of intestinally derived endotoxins, antigens, inflammatory mediators and, in some cases, bacteria. These agents can cause local and systemic reactions associated with a broad range of acute and chronic diseases. Increased IP is typically observed in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but it is also seen in various conditions initially related to gut disorders, including inflammatory response syndrome, allergies, asthma and even autism. Infections, dysbiosis, stress and food intolerance represent major influences on the integrity of intestinal barrier and should therefore be key targets for therapy.
Research indicates that nutrients, plant compounds such as glutamine, glutathione, quercetin, licorice and cinnamon, as well as dietary factors may help to support intestinal mucosal health and promote normal healthy intestinal integrity. We will focus on this research and its relevance to the safe treatment of increased IP and impaired gastrointestinal function. This Intensive will look and the structure and function of the gastrointestinal system and then look at specific herbal indications to help soothe, treat and cure this common health issue.
Jody will be lecturing for three hours on Cherokee Medicine and three hours on The Gut Brain Connection.
In recent years, much has been discovered about the structure and function of the gut, not just as an organ of digestion and absorption but also as a barrier against the passage of pathogens and endotoxins. A healthy gut, with its tight junctions intact, effectively prevents the passage of macromolecules into the bloodstream. Any impairment in the modulation of the intestinal barrier can readily result in pathological increase in permeability of the intestinal mucosa, or leaky gut syndrome. An increase in intestinal permeability (IP) leads to increased absorption of intestinally derived endotoxins, antigens, inflammatory mediators and, in some cases, bacteria. These agents can cause local and systemic reactions associated with a broad range of acute and chronic diseases. Increased IP is typically observed in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but it is also seen in various conditions initially related to gut disorders, including inflammatory response syndrome, allergies, asthma and even autism. Infections, dysbiosis, stress and food intolerance represent major influences on the integrity of intestinal barrier and should therefore be key targets for therapy.
Research indicates that nutrients, plant compounds such as glutamine, glutathione, quercetin, licorice and cinnamon, as well as dietary factors may help to support intestinal mucosal health and promote normal healthy intestinal integrity. We will focus on this research and its relevance to the safe treatment of increased IP and impaired gastrointestinal function. This Intensive will look and the structure and function of the gastrointestinal system and then look at specific herbal indications to help soothe, treat and cure this common health issue.
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ABOUT JODY NOE MS ND
Dr. Jody E. Noé, MS, ND, is a licensed naturopathic physician with over 26 years experienceas as a licensed Naturopath and a practicing herbalist for over 37. Dr. Noé obtained her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. Prior to this she was awarded her Masters of Science in Botany, with a specialty in ethnobotany, and a Bachelors of Science/Premed from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. |
Dr. Noé is the author of the Textbook of Naturopathic Integrative Oncology, CCNM Press, 2012; The Essentials for the Herbalist Series, Volume I, The Endocrine System for Herbalists 2nd Edition, self-published 2017, and Medical Cannabis Experiences and Protocols, self-published 2018. Throughout her career Dr. Noé has authored several scholarly publications in the following: the Journalof Naturopathic Medicine, the Journal of Integrative Cancer Therapies, Mycologia,Ethnomedicine and Drug Discovery, just to mention a few.
Dr. Noé currently serves as adjunct faculty to the University Of Bridgeport College Of Naturopathic Medicine in Connecticut and is the founder of the Integrative Oncology Clinic at UBCNM, as well as serving as the Chair of Botanical Medicine during her 7 year tenure. She continues to serve as faculty to several Universities, colleges, herbal schools and conferences as an internationally known educator in her area of expertise.
Dr. Noé also served as a senior staff physician at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she oversaw the naturopathic residency education and clinic, as well as research and publications. She was the primary investigator and author of a Phase III clinical trial on glutamine used adjunctively in cancer therapy. Dr. Noé served as a founding board member of the Naturopathic Oncology Association and the Botanical Medicine Academy, and a founding member of the Society of Integrative Oncology. She is president emeritus for both the Vermont and Oklahoma Associations of Naturopathic Physicians, and has sat on many cooperative boards and organizations in the communities she has inhabited. Dr. Noé also trained in her traditional Native American Medicine way and has worked as a traditional healer as well as Diabetic Coordinator and Naturopathic Physician for the Mashantucket Pequot tribe on their reservation within the Federal SDPI program. Her specialty training with her Elders in herbal medicines philosophy, psychology and spirituality has made her a leader in the field of integrative medicine. Her background as a clinical researcher, scientist and ethnobotanist adds a dimension of knowledge to her training that makes her unique and a leading educator in her field.
Dr. Noé has been allied with Cannabis since the mid-1970s, and using Cannabis medicines with people since 1980, during the time of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She worked within her own community’s epidemic at that time with plant medicines and Cannabis being used conjunctively to help with symptomology and the debilitating coinfections and disease associated with people suffering from AIDS. During this plague she was a part of an underground support network created for people with AIDS to obtain Cannabis medicines when they were illegal and hard to find species specifically needed by these individuals. She was also a part of the network making these medicines into different forms and delivery systems for specific effects in people living with AIDS. When Dr. Noé was deciding on medical schools, she chose Bastyr because of its Healing Aids Research Project I and II and was awarded a scholarship and research assistant position on the HARP project under the direction of Dr. Leanna Standish. During this period of the early 1990’s, she also worked in Seattle as part of another underground network making Cannabis medicines and using these medicines to help people living with AIDS and cancer. Dr. Noé continues to use Cannabis medicines clinically in her current practice, Natural Family Health & Integrative Medicine, LLC, 82 Norwich-Westerly Road, North Stonington, CT. Her practice in Connecticut has a predominance of patients with cancer using integrative strategies to treat and heal from cancer; naturopathic, herbal and Cannabis being the strategic targeted therapies to achieve this affect. Dr.Noé was one of the first lecturers to teach about this important medicine to be used clinically, and how to use it, calling on her decades of experience with the plant, to tailor the plant prescription and specific species recommendations.
Dr. Noé currently serves as adjunct faculty to the University Of Bridgeport College Of Naturopathic Medicine in Connecticut and is the founder of the Integrative Oncology Clinic at UBCNM, as well as serving as the Chair of Botanical Medicine during her 7 year tenure. She continues to serve as faculty to several Universities, colleges, herbal schools and conferences as an internationally known educator in her area of expertise.
Dr. Noé also served as a senior staff physician at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she oversaw the naturopathic residency education and clinic, as well as research and publications. She was the primary investigator and author of a Phase III clinical trial on glutamine used adjunctively in cancer therapy. Dr. Noé served as a founding board member of the Naturopathic Oncology Association and the Botanical Medicine Academy, and a founding member of the Society of Integrative Oncology. She is president emeritus for both the Vermont and Oklahoma Associations of Naturopathic Physicians, and has sat on many cooperative boards and organizations in the communities she has inhabited. Dr. Noé also trained in her traditional Native American Medicine way and has worked as a traditional healer as well as Diabetic Coordinator and Naturopathic Physician for the Mashantucket Pequot tribe on their reservation within the Federal SDPI program. Her specialty training with her Elders in herbal medicines philosophy, psychology and spirituality has made her a leader in the field of integrative medicine. Her background as a clinical researcher, scientist and ethnobotanist adds a dimension of knowledge to her training that makes her unique and a leading educator in her field.
Dr. Noé has been allied with Cannabis since the mid-1970s, and using Cannabis medicines with people since 1980, during the time of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She worked within her own community’s epidemic at that time with plant medicines and Cannabis being used conjunctively to help with symptomology and the debilitating coinfections and disease associated with people suffering from AIDS. During this plague she was a part of an underground support network created for people with AIDS to obtain Cannabis medicines when they were illegal and hard to find species specifically needed by these individuals. She was also a part of the network making these medicines into different forms and delivery systems for specific effects in people living with AIDS. When Dr. Noé was deciding on medical schools, she chose Bastyr because of its Healing Aids Research Project I and II and was awarded a scholarship and research assistant position on the HARP project under the direction of Dr. Leanna Standish. During this period of the early 1990’s, she also worked in Seattle as part of another underground network making Cannabis medicines and using these medicines to help people living with AIDS and cancer. Dr. Noé continues to use Cannabis medicines clinically in her current practice, Natural Family Health & Integrative Medicine, LLC, 82 Norwich-Westerly Road, North Stonington, CT. Her practice in Connecticut has a predominance of patients with cancer using integrative strategies to treat and heal from cancer; naturopathic, herbal and Cannabis being the strategic targeted therapies to achieve this affect. Dr.Noé was one of the first lecturers to teach about this important medicine to be used clinically, and how to use it, calling on her decades of experience with the plant, to tailor the plant prescription and specific species recommendations.
ACVBM SPEAKER TOPIC INFORMATION
Effectively treating COVID, long COVID and viral infections: Chinese medicine and western herbs.
As a genuinely holistic tradition, Chinese medicine provides in-depth, individualized ways of understanding and treating the many symptoms of COVID and long COVID. We’ll talk about how the School of Cold/Shang Han Lun can be applied to understanding and treating the many symptoms associated with the condition including issues with digestion, respiration, circulation, pain and neurological symptoms. We’ll also discuss the clinical insight provided with integrating different Chinese medicine traditions including the Five Phases/Wu Xing, Wen Bing Xue/School of Heat, the Neurology Tradition/Wai Ke. Brendan will also present case studies from his experience treating many cases of active COVID and long COVID and his clinical experience integrating western herbs within Chinese herbal medicine. Brendan will also speak about being part of a multi-disciplinary team lead by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center that in 2024 submitted a proposal to the National Institutes of Health for him to train acupuncturists to treat long COVID.
ABOUT BRENDAN KELLY L.Ac
Brendan Kelly, L. Ac., M. Ac. has a master’s in acupuncture and extensive experience with eastern and western herbs, including in-depth, hands-on experience growing, wildcrafting and medicine making. Brendan practices full time at Jade Mountain Wellness, the clinic he founded in Burlington, VT USA where a major focus of his work is treating complex conditions including Lyme, late-stage neurological Lyme, COVID, long COVID and cancer. Since 2004 he has been combining the potency of local, bioregional medicinals with the older, pre-westernized traditions of Chinese medicine. He teaches about natural medicine and environmental issues around the US and Europe and has been a faculty member at Johnson State College/Northern Vermont University in VT, the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture in FL and Daoist Traditions in NC. Brendan is part of a multi-disciplinary team lead by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center that in 2024 submitted a proposal to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for him to train acupuncturists to treat long COVID. He is also a long-time student of Dr. Jeffery Yuen, 88th generation Daoist priest and internationally recognized teacher of Chinese medicine.
Brendan is an experienced practitioner of Tai Ch’i Ch’uan having studied weekly for ten years with Wolfe Lowenthal, who was a senior student of Cheng Man Ch’ing, the creator of the Yang style short form. His first book “The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis“, published by North Atlantic Books, uses the lens of Chinese medicine to look at the bigger and deeper issues of our warming planet.
Effectively treating COVID, long COVID and viral infections: Chinese medicine and western herbs.
As a genuinely holistic tradition, Chinese medicine provides in-depth, individualized ways of understanding and treating the many symptoms of COVID and long COVID. We’ll talk about how the School of Cold/Shang Han Lun can be applied to understanding and treating the many symptoms associated with the condition including issues with digestion, respiration, circulation, pain and neurological symptoms. We’ll also discuss the clinical insight provided with integrating different Chinese medicine traditions including the Five Phases/Wu Xing, Wen Bing Xue/School of Heat, the Neurology Tradition/Wai Ke. Brendan will also present case studies from his experience treating many cases of active COVID and long COVID and his clinical experience integrating western herbs within Chinese herbal medicine. Brendan will also speak about being part of a multi-disciplinary team lead by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center that in 2024 submitted a proposal to the National Institutes of Health for him to train acupuncturists to treat long COVID.
ABOUT BRENDAN KELLY L.Ac
Brendan Kelly, L. Ac., M. Ac. has a master’s in acupuncture and extensive experience with eastern and western herbs, including in-depth, hands-on experience growing, wildcrafting and medicine making. Brendan practices full time at Jade Mountain Wellness, the clinic he founded in Burlington, VT USA where a major focus of his work is treating complex conditions including Lyme, late-stage neurological Lyme, COVID, long COVID and cancer. Since 2004 he has been combining the potency of local, bioregional medicinals with the older, pre-westernized traditions of Chinese medicine. He teaches about natural medicine and environmental issues around the US and Europe and has been a faculty member at Johnson State College/Northern Vermont University in VT, the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture in FL and Daoist Traditions in NC. Brendan is part of a multi-disciplinary team lead by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center that in 2024 submitted a proposal to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for him to train acupuncturists to treat long COVID. He is also a long-time student of Dr. Jeffery Yuen, 88th generation Daoist priest and internationally recognized teacher of Chinese medicine.
Brendan is an experienced practitioner of Tai Ch’i Ch’uan having studied weekly for ten years with Wolfe Lowenthal, who was a senior student of Cheng Man Ch’ing, the creator of the Yang style short form. His first book “The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis“, published by North Atlantic Books, uses the lens of Chinese medicine to look at the bigger and deeper issues of our warming planet.
