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Tieraona Low Dog, MD
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Topics
- Aging
- Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine
- Cancer
- Stress
- Women's Health
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Herbal MedicineWith a rare ability to make difficult concepts easy to understand, Dr. Low Dog's dynamic delivery and detailed knowledge enable her to impart up-to-date botanical medical research and complex medical concepts in a user-friendly fashion. Drawing on her clinical experience and continual review of the medical research, she sifts through the mass of hearsay and hyperbole. The result is a credible combination of traditional and evidence-based herbal knowledge presented in an inspiring format.
Menopause: An Integrative ApproachIn this presentation, Dr. Low Dog provides an overview of the conventional, herbal, and nutritional options available for the prevention and treatment of conditions related to the approach of menopause. She includes a detailed discussion of hormone replacement therapy & other options; progesterone cream and its uses and limitations; and using herbs for hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and depression.
Speaker Information
Dr. Low Dog's extensive career in studying herbal medicine and its role in modern health care began more than twenty-five years ago. After extensive experience with botanicals she went on to receive her Doctor of Medicine degree from the New Mexico School of Medicine with an award for Outstanding Senior Medical Student and further training in family medicine. Dr. Low Dog opened and ran a successful integrative medical clinic in Albuquerque, NM before moving to Tucson, AZ to join the faculty of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She currently serves as the Director of the Fellowship.
Her many honors of distinction in recognition of her work in herbal medicine include Time magazine's award of Innovator in Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2001. Bill Clinton appointed Dr. Low Dog to the White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine to provide legislative and administrative recommendations to the President to ensure that public policy maximizes Americans' benefits of complementary and alternative medicine. As the chair of the United States Pharmacopoeia Dietary Supplements and Botanicals Expert Committee, Dr. Low Dog helps oversee the evaluation of the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements. She currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board member for National Institutes of Health Center For Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research in Aging and Women's Health and will join the University of Illinois at Chicago/National Institutes of Health Center for Botanical Dietary Supplement Research in Women's Health in August of 2002.
In addition to her research, Dr. Low Dog is the author of Gifts of the Earth: The Healing Way of Herbal Medicine; Complementary and Integrative Approaches to Women's Health and Tieraona's Herbal: A Guide to Herbal Medicine. Her media-related experience includes serving as a senior medical editor for OneBody.com and assistant editor in the continuing development of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine series of Micromedex, reviewing herbal and dietary supplement monographs. She has appeared on E!, ABC's "20/20" and "Good Morning TV" in London. She is a frequent guest on numerous radio programs in the United States and the United Kingdom, including NPR's "The People's Pharmacy."
Dr. Low Dog has published numerous articles on women's health, including integrative approaches to premenstrual syndrome, menopause and breast cancer. She has also co-published on the topic of herb usage amongst Hispanic elders, and in 1998, she was a recipient of the Martina de la Cruz Medal for her work with indigenous people and remedies.
A highly sought-after speaker for medical conferences and community groups, Dr. Low Dog's topics range from the cultural aspects of alternative medicine to the current scientific information on herbs sold in the United States. Her programs cover the latest research in plant pharmacology, traditional and modern applications, toxicology and plant constituents, as well as anecdotes and observations from her own clinical experience.