Program 2013

Friday 28th June- Educational Day
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