2023 Integrative Dermatology Symposium

Featured Speakers

October 27-29, 2023

Reno, Nevada

Joseph Alban,

DAc MS LAc

Dr. Joseph Alban is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Board Certified Herbalist. He has run a private practice in New York City for seventeen years.

Dr. Alban graduated from Touro College’s Graduate Program in Oriental Medicine, obtaining a Masters of Science in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and completed a Doctor of Acupuncture at Five Branches Univerisity. He completed a Chinese Medicine hospital residency in Hunan, China where he trained in acupuncture, Chinese medicine dermatology, and Tui Na medical massage.

He has received the Traditional Chinese Medicine Dermatology Diploma from world-renowned expert Mazin Al-Khafaji. Dr. Alban sits on the board of the International Traditional Chinese Medicine Dermatology Association (ITCMDA). He is also the Traditional Chinese Medicine editor for Learn Skin and on the board for the Integrative Dermatology Symposium. He is the head editor and a contributing author of the ebook An Introduction to Chinese Medicine Dermatology which resulted from a collaboration of the ITCMDA and Learn Skin.

IDS 2023 Sessions

Yin Yang Nutrition: Balancing Food and Your Skin - 0.5 CME Credits Day One: Friday, October 27, 2023 | 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT:

This talk will introduce participants to the basic concepts of TCM in the context of nutrition. Understanding the nature of the foods can be helpful in understanding why some foods may aggravate skin conditions in certain patients. Nutritional principles, as an extension of herbal medicine, are based upon the foods' essential taste, temperature, and function. Chinese medicine also incorporates many functional foods and spices that can be added to the diet for overall health or specific skin conditions.

Learning Objectives:
- Participants will diagram the concepts of tastes and temperatures of foods.
- Participants will identify foods that are helpful and which may aggravate skin conditions.
- Participants will apply functional and antiaging foods into diet plans.Speaker

More Cooks in the Kitchen Panel - 1.0 CME Credits Day One: Friday, October 27, 2023 | 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM PDT:

This panel will bring together skin care experts across disciplines to highlight the diverse perspectives regarding the impact of nutrition on the skin and how to coordinate care to provide dermatology patients with nutritional support.

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will illustrate care across disciplines to provide nutrition recommendations for patients with skin disease.
2. Participants will recall their role in providing dermatologic (and nutritional) care on a multidisciplinary teamPanelists

Using Integrative Approaches to Maintain Success Panel - 1.0 CME Credits Day Two: Saturday, October 28, 2023 | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM PDT:

This session will explore how an integrative approach, including nutritional support, can complement medical management of skin disease to provide patients with long-term control of their skin disease, while optimizing their overall health and well-being

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will demonstrate the role for integrative assessment and testing to help patients achieve lasting control of skin disease.
2. Participants will highlight the opportunities to incorporate integrative approaches, including nutrition and mind-body medicine, at different stages in the management of skin disease.
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