17th Annual Natural Supplements

17th Annual Natural Supplements is organized by Scripps Health and will be held from Jan 23 - 26, 2020 at Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine, San Diego, California, United States of America.

Target Audience:
This course is intended for any health care professional who makes nutritional recommendations or manages dietary supplement use.

Description:
Nutritional approaches are touted as having the ability to influence health and disease. As a result, 59 million Americans are self-prescribing and spending in excess of $30 billion annually on herbal and dietary supplements to address their health concerns. It is important for health care providers to receive timely, evidence-based information in order to address the risks and benefits of supplements with their patients. In this dynamic partnership with patients, providers also need information about regulatory issues, drug-nutrient interactions, dosing and product potency.

To address these needs, world-renowned faculty will present clinically relevant information on natural supplements in evidence-based practice, with an emphasis on disease states. This conference will also provide health practitioners with an understanding of the central role of nutrition in health and healing and provide a scientific basis for the integration of nutrition and medicine in order to practice preventive and therapeutic nutritional medicine.

Highlights:
• Three days of evidenced-based educational sessions presented by internationally recognized researchers and clinicians
• Full day of interactive workshops to fine tune clinical applications
• Newly designed pre-conference seminars which will provide an in-depth look at new cutting-edge topics
• Opportunities to network with faculty and fellow attendees to build relationships with like-minded practitioners

Educational Objectives:
After attending this live activity, participants should be able to:
• Recognize the potential role of supplements in preventive medicine and in the management of common medical conditions.
• Judge the regulatory aspects of the supplement industry and their implications for clinical and research practice.
• Discuss current research and literature related to natural supplements.
• Examine, through evidence-based summaries, key supplements used in clinical practice, including their indications, side effects, interactions and contraindications.
• Formulate a patient care treatment program that integrates supplements in preventive medicine and in the management of common medical conditions.
• Access and/or recommend resources for acquiring additional supplement related information for the clinician or patient.
• Increase proper supplement usage by patients by involving the patient as an active partner in care, with an emphasis on patient education, acceptance and compliance.
• Incorporate nutritional information into clinical practice and advise patients about eating for optimum health as well as using dietary change as a therapeutic intervention.
• Evaluate the benefits and risks of nutritional recommendations for specific health conditions through an analysis of the existing scientific and clinical evidence.

Pre-Conference Seminars | Thursday, January 23, 2020
• Bringing Integrative Medicine to Your Practice & Health Care System
• The Clinical Application of Herbal & Botanical Medicine
• Advanced Functional Approaches in Cardiology
• Integrating Genomics into your Clinical Practice