A master storyteller, internationally recognized author, physician, speaker and healer, Dr. Carl A. Hammerschlag is a Yale-trained psychiatrist who has spent more than twenty years working with Native Americans. For fourteen of those years, he was Chief of Psychiatry at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center. Now one of the world's leading proponents of Psychoneuroimmunology (mind-body-spirit medicine), Dr. Hammerschlag is a faculty member at the University of Arizona Medical School and an advisory board member to Shape Magazine.
An expert on how to survive in rapidly changing cultures, Dr. Hammerschlag brings to his presentations his gift of storytelling, a wealth of legends, and unique insights which bridge the worlds of science, spirit, and culture. Utilizing his own extraordinary life experiences , including the language of science, the power of legends and his vast clinical experience , he offers a unique perspective on how people can restore balance in their lives. The future of healthcare rests in the ability of community to provide for prevention of disease. He says, "When we heal in community it actually makes a healthy outcome more likely, because everyone has a stake in the outcome."
Dr. Hammerschlag's life work has been chronicled in three critically acclaimed books: The Dancing Healers, The Theft of the Spirit, Healing Ceremonies, as well as two children's books. He holds the highest honor given in the speaking profession, the CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame Award. Dr. Hammerschlag is a recipient of the National Caring Award; selected by the Caring Institute of Washington, DC, from more than a quarter million nominations, the award honors him as one of "the ten most caring adults in America."
A passionate, wise, and caring healer, Dr. Hammerschlag helps people transform their lives by showing them how to rise above their limitations, remove their roadblocks, rekindle their dreams, and become the principal agents in their own professional and personal lives. With poignancy and humor, he leads his audiences on a joyful journey that will stimulate and renew their creative potential.
The Future of Healthcare: Healing in Community
Today's healthcare model is based on an intervention (we diagnose illness and prescribe treatment). The future of healthcare will be based on a model of prediction and prevention. We can do that and get reimbursed for it, but it means moving beyond office and hospital walls, and into the community. Healthcare in the future will be provided in schools, after-school programs, senior centers designed to keep people healthy. In high risk areas of the community mobile vans can provide out-patient/preventative care. There is a large pool of healing resources and practitioners in communities that can be mobilized to create a network focused on keeping people healthy. Weaving the language of science, with the magic of his stories, Dr. H. presents a paradigm-shifting model of preventative healthcare that saves billions of dollars, provides better care and promotes the importance of sustaining connections and building community.
Upon completion of this programs, attendees will be able to:
1. explain the paradigm shift from a model of intervention to one based on prevention.
2. provide 3 examples of how to integrate existing community resources into their own practice/work
3. define the difference between healing and curing and its importance in healthcare delivery
The Future of Healthcare: Hospitals As Healing Communities
Keynote Plus Optional Targeted Workshop Session
Dr. Hammerschlag delivers his compelling message about hospitals becoming critical catalysts in communities to move us from today's interventional paradigm to one based on prediction and prevention. Hospitals understand that to survive they have to move beyond an acute-care and emergency rooms; they must cast a wider net into the communities they serve, by caring for people before they get sick. In this program he will offer examples of effective community preventive health programs.
Following this gripping keynote, Dr. Hammerschlag will follow with an intimate, two-hour workshop for a select group of individuals: CEO, a Trustee, and Chief Physician, where he will present practical, how-to examples for setting themselves apart to become the hub for innovative preventative health in their communities.
Upon completion of this programs, attendees will be able to:
1. explain the paradigm shift from a model of intervention to one based on prevention.
2. provide 3 examples of how to integrate existing community health resources into their hospital.
3. give 3 examples of how to improve their follow up after hospital discharge.
Special Fee Available for State Hospital Assns
Authenticity and Leadership: Sustaining Your Passion and Purpose
Saying what you mean, and doing what you promise, is no longer the custom in our culture. Nowadays, it's more common to say whatever people want to hear, or whatever you can get away with. Right and wrong is now determined by courts of law rather than a shared consensus about what's ethical and moral.
To succeed personally and professionally you must be authentic-- a person or organization whose words, actions and principles are all telling the same story. In his compelling style, Dr. H. shares his experience and wisdom, in ways that will kindle your passion and purpose.
Upon completion of this programs, attendees will be able to:
1. define authenticity in the language of mind/body/spirit/ medicine (psychoneuroimmunology or PNI).
2. explain the importance of risk and change in all growth.
3. explain how transparency, truth, and accountability) define the effective leader.
Healthcare at the Crossroads: Sustaining Our Healing Spirit
This is a time in which the trajectories of culture, economics and technology are colliding to threaten the care of patients. When the tail of cost control wags the dog of healthcare delivery then the profession becomes just another industry. Most of us came into this field because it was a ministry. The economics of healthcare is causing a crisis of faith between providers and patients who no longer believe that clinical decisions are made solely on the basis on what they need. We must address this crisis because new medical advances are raising more financial and ethical questions. We must restore our trust and commitments to each other if we are to sustain our calling and cause.
Facing Serious Illness: The Journey of Heroes
Sooner or later all of us are going to face looking at serious health issues. It is not the events in your life that will do you in, but the choices you make about how you come to them. As a pioneer in the practical applications of psychoneuroimmunology, Dr. H has studied the relationships between behavior and health. This program addresses healing through a better understanding of: the psychology of resilience; the power of choice; trusting the unconscious; and the pursuit of vision. Using the languages of science, stories and song Dr. H will show you how you can become the hero of your own healing journey.
The Dancing Healers
This is a personal story about the journey from doctor to healer. After completing medical school and internship in the mid-sixties, Dr. H. came to Indian country to serve his military obligation as an alternative to going to Vietnam. There he met an Indian medicine man who taught him how to dance. Like most Western trained physicians, he was an expert in the disease model - one that emphasized the identification and treatment of pathology. Over the next 40 years, he learned from traditional healers how to expand that disease model to a healing paradigm. This is a story about staying healthy, and the importance of harmony between thoughts, actions and feelings - the foundation of the new science of Psychoneuroimmunology (mind-body-spirit medicine).
