International Clinical Aromatherapy
Conference and Wellness Expo

Fostering a New Dimension in Health Care

October 15-19, 2009

Holiday Inn Crystal Lake and Conference Center
Crystal Lake, Illinois

Speakers
Alan, Hirsch, MD | Mindy Green | Jennifer Jefferies, ND | Rhiannon Harris
Pam Conrad, RN | Marza Millar | Raphael d'Angelo, MD | Robbi Zeck, ND
Laraine Kyle Pounds, RN | Kailish Dixit | Anita James | Ashish Talati, Esq.| Sandra Larkin
Farida Irani | Dr. H. Rodolfo Juliani | Debbie Freund, RN | Lora Cantele | Bev Day

Dr. Alan Hirsch is a nationally recognized smell and taste expert. He has written more than 180 articles on the psychological power of smell, taste and how these senses affect human behavior.

The Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation specializes in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of smell and taste-related disorders.  Dr. Hirsch has performed several studies on the effects of smell and taste on weight loss, sleep, consumer preferences and sexual habits, among many other topics.  

Aromatherapy and Weight Loss

Post-Conference: Neurologic and Psychiatric Application of Aromatherapy

Mindy Green has 35 years experience in the natural products and health care industries, Ms. Green has served as Program Specialist for the Integrative Resource Center at the University of Colorado Hospital, Anschutes Cancer Center, where she developed and implemented specialized educational programs and resources on complementary therapies for patients and staff. 

Aromatherapy Business Climate - Changing with the Times

AHPA and Other Resources for Aromatherapists

Jennifer Jefferies is one of Australia’s best-known authors and speakers. Jennifer is a qualified Aromatherapist and naturopath, but better than that, she’s also a real person who has travelled the road to corporate burnout where she decided to change her life and help others to learn what she did about the importance and benefits of living a life in balance by integrating aromatherapy into their lives.

MRSA Research Thailand
Aim of the Study: To test the effectiveness of proprietary blends on MRSA and other airborne pathogens.

Post-Conference: Intuitive Aromatherapy
This workshop will help you to tap into your intuition, develop your emotional awareness and increase your knowledge base as you learn the subtle uses for aromatherapy.

Rhiannon Harris is an experienced aromatherapist, educator and author. She is also editor of the International Journal of Clinical Aromatherapy and co-director of Essential Oil Resource Consultants: providers of research, education and information in the field of essential oils. Based in Provence, France, Rhiannon travels internationally to teach and hosts advanced clinical aromatherapy study programs in the mountains near her home.

Using Essential Oils in Cancer and Palliative Care Environments
Rhiannon has been instrumental in the establishment of effective clinical aromatherapy interventions in hospices and hospitals in the United Kingdom since 2003. This presentation gives an overview of the potentials of clinical aromatherapy in cancer and palliative care. Focusing on improving quality of life issues, Rhiannon will explore using essential oils for a range of clinical challenges including malodor, respiratory distress, pain, nausea, infection and skin breakdown.

Post-Conference: Effective Pain Management with Essential Oils
Rhiannon will bring her years of experience working with managing pain with essential oils. 

Originally from Indiana, Pam has practiced trauma, psychiatric, cardiac, oncology and woman’s health nursing. After completing her clinical aromatherapy program in the US, she studied advanced aromatherapy and graduate complementary therapies for two years in England. She has spent nearly a decade immersed in Clinical Aromatherapy focusing her energies mainly in women and family healthcare in private practice, hospitals and as a consultant with Wellspring pharmacy in Indianapolis.

Aromatic Childbirth - the journey of developing a Clinical Aromatherapy maternity program in a large Midwest hospital
The journey of Aromatic Childbirth started in England as Pam practicing aromatherapy alongside Denise Tiran in a prenatal clinic and labour unit envisioned the day she would return home to Indiana and create aromatherapy programs based on the practice and research of her English colleagues. The process and challenges of educating healthcare professionals, developing curriculum, designing a hospital maternity aromatherapy program will be explored. The data from the first year of the program as well as case studies will be shared.

Marza, educated in Allopathic Medicine, spent years working in Hospitals, Clinics and Heath Administration until she was called from her Native Roots to explore “Alternative” Medicine.  The “Alternative Medicine” studies included Massage Therapy, Aromatherapy, Clinical Herbal Studies, Flower Essences, Shamanic and Vibrational Medicine.  Marza now works as the Flower Essence Services Marketing Director and National Educator.

Using Flower Essences in Your Aromatherapy Practice
In this overview of Flower Essence Therapy, I will present the history of the Bach Remedies, history of the continued studies done by Flower Essence Society, didactics of Flower Essence Applications in Therapy, Dosage and Rendering of Flower Essence Therapy as a modality of healing, didactics of combining Aromatherapy and Flower Essences as a healing therapy.  

Post-Conference: Using Flower Essences in Your Aromatherapy Practice

Dr Raphael d’Angelo, a holistic family physician in medical practice since 1976, is the immediate past president of AIA, past president of  Aromatics In Action, served as a regional director for NAHA, and has brought medical aromatherapy concepts to doctors, nurses, holistic healers and the public through his courses, lectures and seminars. Dr d’Angelo is a graduate of the aromatherapy program of the Australasian College of Health Sciences. He continues to research the effective use of essential oils on infectious diseases.

Ninth Amendment Protections for the Practicing Aromatherapist
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) presents potential conflicts with the medical practice acts of the states. My talk will give you a tested way of maneuvering around the police power of the state so that you may practice your profession, conduct your business, and seek your own personal healthcare in a manner that reduces interference from governmental authorities.

Lunch Talk: Treating Infections with Essential Oils: AromaTab™ – A Novel Approach
In February, 2008 a chance happening blossomed into a new and exciting way of delivering internal antimicrobial essential oils first to the immune system and then to the rest of the body bypassing the liver. This has opened up a whole new aspect of treating many different infections without reliance upon prescription antibiotics for the benefit of patients as young as five and as old as eighty-four. Research details and case studies will be presented.

Robbi Zeck ND is the developer of Aromatic Kinesiology, an empowering system of energetic medicine, which blends the harmonizing influences of essential oils with gentle healing techniques that balance the emotions, transform stress and create well being. Her pioneering work on the psychological benefits of essential oils and how they affect the integration of emotional experiences is beautifully portrayed in her deeply moving workshop series based on her inspirational book The Blossoming Heart - Aromatherapy for Healing and Transformation.

Passion and Purpose - Live a Visionary Life
There is no more profound or more challenging question than how we will live our lives. How to live a life of greatness, filled with passion and purpose, at home, at work and in the community. No matter what our circumstances may be, how we spend our days effects us at the personal and also at the collective level. We are each responsible for the discovery of our vision and purpose. We all have the power to decide to live a great life, a passionate life, a life filled with spiritual purpose.

Laraine is a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist and Integrative Aromatherapy Consultant and Educator who teaches a nationally endorsed Certificate Program in Integrative Aromatherapy TM  for nurses and massage therapists.  Laraine is a founding member of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA), the Aromatherapy Registration Council (ARC) and the Alliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA).  

Uses of Essential Oils in an In-Patient Psychiatric Setting
Laraine Kyle Pounds, Nurse Aromatherapist, will describe the development of an aromatherapy program in a short-term psychiatric treatment environment.  A variety of factors involved in establishing and maintaining a therapeutic aromatherapy program in a hospital setting will be reviewed, including the benefits of essential oils for a variety of clinical situations.

I trained as an aromatherapist with Shirley Price in 2000 and gained my Cert Ed in 2007. I have a special interest in babies and children. I am involved in various projects in local schools and nurseries, as well as providing infant massage and yoga classes.

Aromatherapy in Classroom Setting with Young Children
I have always looked at ways of incorporating aromatherapy into everyday environments. In the school projects I run aromatherapy and massage are used in the learning areas and with children who have specific needs. Each targeted child receives a personalized blend for use in both the nursery and at home.

Kailash Dixit will talk about Nepal's rich flora due to the presence of wide range of geographical and climatic conditions. Nepal shares a negligible percentage of essential oil in terms of production despite its rich aromatic floral diversity.

Ashish R. Talati is a Partner at Amin Talati, LLC.  Mr. Talati primarily counsels companies and trade associations in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry on a wide range of issues surrounding U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) review, approval, and oversight of drug and biological products. He counsels such drug and biotechnology clients as well as food, dietary supplement, cosmetic and medical device companies on matters of regulatory compliance, helps them anticipate and address regulatory issues in their day-to-day business operations and strategic planning, and advocates on their behalf before the FDA, FTC, Customs, USDA, DEA and other federal and state agencies, and in court. 

Labeling Laws and Marketing Language
Mr. Talati will be discussing what you need to know when labeling and marketing your products and business.  What you can and can't say on your labels and in your marketing materials.

Sandra Larkin, CWPM, a 20 year corporate veteran, is known for her ability to deliver exceptional business and personal results.  She is the President of Sandra Larkin Wellness Strategies, LLC and a national motivational speaker on workplace wellness.  Her professional qualifications include: Certified Wellness Program Manager, Professional Coaching and Corporate Facilitation, and a Bachelor Of Science in Business Administration.

Strategic Business Planning: The Sweet Smell of Success
Successful organizations follow a business plan and develop a strategy to achieve goals.  Know when and where you’re going and how to increase your likelihood of long term success.  Success can smell sweet!

Farida Irani of Subtle Energies is a Holistic Health Practitioner, a qualified Ayurveda practitioner, a clinical Aromatherapist and a Bowen Therapy Senior Instructor. She has done her post Graduate studies (Ayurveda Nishnata ) with world renowned Ayurveda Physician Prof Dr P H Kulkarni (Ex Dean Ayurveda University from Pune, India). She runs a busy clinic with her daughter Khursheed who is a qualified Acupuncturist, clinical Aromatherapist and a Bowen  practitioner.

Ayurveda Aromatherapy for Chronic Illness
According to Ayurveda, your mind controls your senses and your body and therefore it is the mind which determines whether you are using your senses and your body to enhance your spirituality and progress in your life, or you choose to stagnate. A man in order to be healthy, has to be of sound body, mind and soul - Tana, Mana and Prana or Aatma.  He has to understand that spirit is the intelligence of life and matter is its energy. 

Post-Conference: Shirodhara, Shiroabhyang & Padadhyang
In this workshop you will learn about;  Shirodhara which is the pouring of oil on the third eye/forehead. Shiroabhyang which is Indian head massage & Padadhyang which is a traditional Indian foot massage.

H. Rodolfo Juliani, PhD, Research Associate, currently working at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His field of expertise is in the biology, chemistry, quality (safety, effectiveness) of herbs, and their derived natural products particularly essential oils and hydrosols. The results of his research were published in leading scientific journals, book chapters and proceedings.

Chemistry and Quality of Essential Oils and Hydrolsols: Selected Studies
Sensory, physical and chemical properties determine the quality of essential oils and their products, and they can affect the final value or access to markets to essential oils.

Debbie Freund has been using essential oils for 20 years in private practice and is the owner and founder of Scents & Scentsibility, Ltd.. She is certified in clinical aromatherapy with Dr. Jane Buckle and is a member of the AMTA. She has used essential oils at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the US World Cup and the Goodwill Games in 1992 in Seattle. Debbie is an experienced aromatherapy educator and has lectured extensively on the subject in the US and abroad. She spends her time writing, teaching and traveling and brings much experience to the AIA board.

Olfaction: The Magic and Mystery
Attendees will gain basic understanding of how scent is processed in the brain and will gain knowledge of evolutionary significance of olfaction.

Lora Cantele, President of AIA, is a Registered Clinical Aromatherapist, Swiss Reflex Therapist, manufacturer of aroma-therapeutic products for her company Enhancements Aromatherapy LLC and Director/Board Certified Educator of the Penny Price Academy
of Aromatherapy-USA. Lora is a writer and speaker in the field of aromatherapy. Lora conducts specialty aromatherapy workshops for a variety of hospital support groups,
health and wellness fairs and women’s expos. Lora is featured regularly as
the Aromatherapist-On Call for Aromatherapy Thymes Magazine.

Fostering a New Dimension in Healthcare and the AIA
Lora Cantele will reveal the surprising results of the September 2009 Survey, completed by AIA Members, and how it impacts the role of the AIA and its goal of moving aromatherapy forward with vision and action. 

Lora will address the various levels of practitioners, as well as students, with regard to where they see themselves and where they would like to see aromatherapy moving forward.  Within the presentation she will address the issues surrounding the achievement of our goal; including increasing public awareness, clinical integration of aromatherapy, and fostering other options for addressing health care needs within the current system. 

As you have listened to our highly regarded speakers and esteemed colleagues throughout the weekend, I hope you will find this information not only informative and inspirational, but also recognize that as practitioners we can Imagine the possibilities, Believe that we can accomplish what we set out to do and Achieve the AIA’s goal of fostering a new dimension in healthcare and enjoy a bright future ahead!

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