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Scientific Research Symposium
May 24, 2006
Edmonton, Alberta
The Natural Health Product Research Society of Canada
(NHPRS) is pleased to host a special research symposium
on Natural Health Products in
Clinical Practice, which
will be held on May 24th, 2006 at the Shaw Convention
Centre in Edmonton Alberta, Canada.
The NHPRS has invited the world's leading experts
to share their research results that cover the spectrum
of healing modalities germane to clinical practice.
The roster of distinguished presenters includes: Drs.
Mary Hardy (Chair), Steven Aung, Joseph Betz, Betsy
Singh, Michael Smith, Vlad Vuksan, and other internationally
recognized speakers.
Attendees will benefit from a full day of learning
and professional updating as these internationally
recognized experts address critical research and clinical
topics such as:
- Latest developments in
the use of evidence-based NHPs in clinical practice
- Effective
integration of NHPs into clinical practice
- Critical
gaps in NHP research
- Successfully meeting regulatory
and methodological challenges
- Qualifying NHPs for
clinical research and achieving study reproducibility
- Updates
on product safety
Please visit the NHPRS
website to review the program and speaker biographies.
Who Should Attend?
Attendance at this event will be of vital importance
to scientists, health professionals, government representatives,
and industry leaders who are interested in NHP research
and the use of NHPs in conventional or CAM clinical
practice.
To register, please visit: http://www.nhpresearch.bcit.ca/Edmonton2006.html
Supporting Scientific Research on NHPs
Sponsorship of the Edmonton Symposium is still open
and will enable interested parties to directly reach
a select audience of stakeholders that includes:
the media, healthcare providers, researchers, government
and industry representatives. The symposium will
benefit sponsoring partners in a variety of ways:
- Keeps organizations abreast
of cutting-edge research in NHPs
- Provides opportunities
to network with leading researchers, clinicians,
and government regulators
- Creates opportunities
to establish collaborative projects between government,
academia and industry
- Promotes ongoing professional
development and networking among scientists, health
professionals and government for the purpose of
establishing safe standards of practice
- Demonstrates
their commitment to rigorous scientific research
and safe, effective, high quality NHPs
For more information, please contact: Dennis Charland,
Symposium Coordinator, at: dcharland@strategisgroup.ca.
The Natural Health
Products in Clinical Practice symposium is being held in conjunction with
the North American Research Conference on Complementary
and Integrative Medicine (IM-Conf-2006) May 25-27,
2006. Information on the IM-Conf-2006 is posted at
www.imconsortium-conference2006.com.
The NHP Research Society of Canada (NHPRS) is a non-profit
scientific organization. It has earned an international
reputation for the high quality and integrity of
its scientific programs.
The mission of the NHPRS is to facilitate and support
meaningful, scientifically rigorous research and education
on natural health products. The purpose of the society
is to promote the achievement of national research
priorities that will best enable the informed and appropriate
use of NHPs that are safe, efficacious, and of high
quality.
Our specific objectives are to:
- Build NHP research and education
capacity;
- Facilitate effective NHP knowledge transfer
and translation;
- Inform decision-making and evidence-based
policy development;
- Foster interdisciplinary NHP
research collaborations and networking;
- Promote
the use of high quality, well-characterized and
standardized NHPs in research;
- Develop national product
quality standards, reference materials and validated
methods.
- Provide representation & communication
forums for the NHP research community; and to
- Advocate
and uphold fair and ethical standards in NHP education
and research.
We invite you to visit our website at
www.NHPresearch.bcit.ca for
further information on the Society. |
