IHPC

IHPC, with its multiple stakeholder Partners for Health, and the American Chiropractic Association, which Goertz sometimes advises, helped place this language.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

Wisneski's note indicated that IHPC had cobbled together the funds to advertise for a new executive director, half-time for starters.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

After years of significant but stuttering accomplishment on a paltry budget, IHPC, the single, multi-disciplinary, collaborative, torch-bearing lobbyist for integrative care in Washington, D.C., appeared finally to be ready to take a seat at the right tables.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

With Kahn's leadership, IHPC engaged some of the regulatory relationship-building recommended and necessary.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

Wisneski's initial email announced publication of IHPC's long-awaited report of a Stakeholder Conference on Integrated Healthcare Reform.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

The second was Janet Kahn, Ph.D., LMT, then IHPC's executive director.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

Jonas, who headed the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine in the mid-1990s, offers this appraisal: The IHPC policy report is the product of one of the most collaborative, multi-stakeholder processes in the entire integrative medicine industry.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

Kahn, after a half-dozen years of underpaid, Sisyphean work, decided to leave IHPC's directorship and move to an essentially volunteer national policy adviser role.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

The question brings us to the second of IHPC chair Wisneski's notices and the Achilles heel for integrative health policy work.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

Another was Wayne Jonas, M.D., CEO of the Samueli Institute, credited with conceiving, with partners like IHPC, the whole systems structure of the National Prevention Council.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012