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The University of Pittsburgh has been accepted into the 18-member Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM), positioning the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM) among the top programs in the nation that have an interest in determining the scientific basis of therapeutic approaches that may be complementary to established medical treatments. The CAHCIM is a consortium of programs around the country involved in teaching, research and clinical care focused on complementary and alternative medicine techniques. "This accreditation enhances our opportunities to obtain support for rigorously controlled clinical trials from the National Institutes of Health, with the goal of establishing or disproving the effectiveness of complementary and alternative treatments," said Arthur S. Levine, M.D., senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Academically, the CIM operates within the department of family medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and clinically it is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "We are well situated to collaborate with our other departments, including internal medicine and psychiatry, to further our understanding of psychological and interpersonal factors which may influence health and disease," said Ronald Glick, M.D., assistant professor of family medicine and medical director of the CIM. The CIM is dedicated to research on an evolving form of health care where disease prevention, practitioner/patient partnership and the evidence-based application of non-conventional treatment strategies are explored in collaboration with conventional medical practices.
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