08:30 – 10:00 | Registration | |
09:30 – 11:30 | Workshop: Cosmetic Acupuncture I | J. Song, Kyunghee OM University (Korea) |
11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee Break | |
12:00 – 13:00 | Workshop:Cosmetic Acupuncture II | J. Song, Kyunghee OM University (Korea) |
13:00 – 14:00 | Practicum: Nail corner points of hands and feet applied to two indications: “Heat in the body like Fire” and “Dream disturbed sleep” | J. Fossion / R.Fossion(Belgium) |
14:00 – 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
15:00 – 16:00 | Practicum: Transdisciplinarity as the epistemological ground for scientific approaches | A. Santana(Brazil) |
16:00 – 17:00 | Workshop: Chronic Pain Management: Advanced Updating in Employment of the Golden Bead Implants I | F.Miguell (Spain) / M.Tegiacchi Schvetz (Argentina) |
17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee break | |
17:30 – 19:30 | Workshop: Chronic Pain Management: Advanced Updating in Employment of the Golden Bead Implants II | F.Miguell (Spain) / M.Tegiacchi Schvetz (Argentina) |
Saturday 29th June- Experiment Day
09:00 – 09:30 | Opening Ceremony | |
09:30 – 10:15 | Introduction to the Society for Acupuncture Research | J. Kong, Stanford University (USA) |
10:15 – 11:00 | Acupuncture and the emerging evidence base: definitive data from trials involving 18,000 patients with chronic pain | H. MacPherson, York University(UK) |
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
11:30 – 12:15 | The holographic structure of the Central Nervous System and the fractality of the somatic and visceral representations | A. Sant'Αna(Brazil) |
12:15 – 13:00 | fMRI & acupuncture | P. Toulas |
13:00 – 13:30 | Conclusions | |
13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break | |
14:30 – 15:15 | Immediate effect of Electroacupuncture on Parkinson Disease: A human study | Y. Cakmak, Koc Ist. University(Turkey) |
15.15 – 16.00 | An fMRI study prior and post acupuncture treatment during periods of smoking cessation | K.Theodoratou, D.Verganelakis, P.Toulas |
16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break | |
16:30 – 17:15 | Acupuncture & Heartrate Variability | R. Fossion(Belgium) |
17:15 – 18:00 | Long term intrathecal analgesic therapy – chemical neuromodulation technique | E. Anastassiou |
18:00 – 18.45 | Energetics of orthopedic acupuncture-Theory and practical applications | G. Fazakis |
18:45 – 19.15 | Conclusions |
Sunday 30th June- Experience Day
09:30 – 10:15 | The thermoregulatory points and their action into the central nuclei of the brainstem | J. Fossion(Belgium) |
10:15 – 11:00 | Placebo, nocebo: When the brain is pleasure and poison | M. Papaioannou |
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
11:30 – 12:15 | Brain plasticity: a window for therapeutic interventions | I. Skaliora, BRFAA |
12:15 – 13:00 | Understanding mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia using quantitative sensory testing | J. Kong, Stanford University (USA) |
13:00 – 13:30 | Conclusions | |
13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break | |
14:30 – 15:15 | Medical Acupuncture as a complex system – A Physician's look into quantum mechanics | G. Bellos |
15:15 – 16:00 | Neuroimaging and acupuncture a critical review | K. Tsatsou |
16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
16:30 – 17:15 | The psychological aspect of pain | V. Zafeiriou |
17:15 – 18:00 | Clinical and existential experiences of a life time in acupuncture | F. Beyens (Belgium) |
18:00 – 18:30 | Conclusions – Closing ceremony |
Hugh MacPherson, PhD, Researcher,York (UK) Jiang-Ti Kong, MD/MS Clinical Instructor, Pain Management – Stanford Hospital, Stanford, CA (USA) Yusuf Cakmak, MD, PhD, Assoc.Professor of Anatomy, Researcher for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Lab – Koç University, Istanbul (Turkey)
Baron Francois Beyens, MD, Honorary President ICMART, Brussels (Belgium)
Jean Pierre Fossion, MD, Researcher,Brussels (Belgium)
Antonio Carlos Sant’Ana , MD, Researcher, Bauru (Brazil)
Jeong Hwa Song, OMD, Professor Kyunghee OM University (Korea)
Francesc Martín, Veterinarian, Barcelona (Spain)
Marcelo Tegiacchi Schvetz, MD, Traumatologist, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Ruben Fossion, Physicist, PhD, Researcher, Mexico city (Mexico)
Konstantina Theodoratou, MD, MSc in Acupuncture, Med.Psych, Fellowship of Athens Academy Biomedical Research Foundation, Vice President of Icmart
George Fazakis, MD , MSc , Orthopedic Surgein, Vice President of Samag, Peterborough (UK) Panagiotis Toulas, MD, Neuroimaging researcher
Emmanouil Anastassiou, MD, PhD, Anesthisiologist
Vangelis Zafeiriou, MD, Psychiatrist
Georgios J. Bellos MD, PhD, GP
Irini Skaliora, Neurobiologist, PhD, Research Ass. Professor Athens Academy Biomedical Research Foundation
Marianna Papaioannou, MD, MSc, Anesthisiologist
Katerina Tsatsou, MD, Neurologist, MSc Neuroscience