Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

Since its inception, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine has focused its efforts on three domains: education, clinical care, and research—with the primary emphasis on education.

Education

The Center offers a broad range of educational opportunities for healthcare professionals with an interest in learning and practicing the principles of integrative medicine. The majority of the Center's educational offerings are online, including our flagship program: The Fellowship in Integrative Medicine.

Clinical Care

The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine has two clinical locations at the University of Arizona, specializing in creating integrative treatment plans for patients with medical conditions ranging from cancer to chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease as well as offering preventive care.

Research

The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine's goal is to contribute rigorous scientific research on the integration of complementary and alternative therapies with conventional medicine. We focus on three areas: educational research, corporate health research, and methods to study clinical outcomes in integrative medicine.

Accomplishments

Our accomplishments include:

• The leading provider of integrative medicine education worldwide
• Developed the first and most comprehensive academic curriculum in integrative medicine (IM)
• Trained over 400 Fellows - many of whom are now leaders in the field of IM
• Our alumni hail from all over the world - 45 states are represented, as are Canada, Japan, Korea, Israel, United Arab Emirates, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
• Created the first family medicine/IM combined residency in the U.S.
• Developed the first integrative medicine residency program
• Our faculty and graduates have contributed to the field by writing the leading textbooks on integrative medicine, as well as numerous textbook chapters and articles
• Co-founded the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for integrative medicine - a consortium of academic centers and their deans from Duke, Harvard and other leading medical schools

Mission

The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine leads the transformation of healthcare by creating, educating and actively supporting a community that embodies the philosophy and practice of healing-oriented medicine, addressing mind, body and spirit.

Our commitment is to live the values of Integrative Medicine, thus creating a unique model for transforming medicine.

Creating a New Generation of Doctors from Andrew Weil, M.D. on Vimeo.