Proceeding Jan03 Overview

1st American Samueli Symposium
Definitions and Standards in Healing Research
Newport Beach, California
January 10-12, 2003

Sponsor

Samueli Institute

Purpose & Focus

This was an invitational conference to develop consensus on the definitions of healing energy, healing intention and the healing relationship, and to create research protocols and methodologies that will become the standards for basic and clinical research in these fields of inquire. Six working groups of clinical and basic research leaders (in the fields of clinical medicine, clinical nursing, distant healing intention, spirituality and prayer, bioenergy, and healing relationships) prepared drafts of position papers in the months before the actual conference. At the conference, each committee’s position paper was critically reviewed by the plenary assembly and the paper revised as final iteration.

Audience

Basic and clinical research scientists, clinicians, philosophers and administrators at the meeting, and the subscription list of the journal Alternative Therapies as the eventual audience.

Outcome

The 9 papers presented at the conference were published as a Supplement to the May 2003 issue of Alternative Therapies, a peer-reviewed journal listed on PubMed. An abstract containing recommended protocol formats was published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10:171-181, 2004.

View Article (application/pdf, 72.3 kB, info) in Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Table of Contents

THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS IN HEALING RESEARCH
Wayne B. Jonas, MD
Ronald A. Chez, MD

SAMUELI CONFERENCE ON DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS IN HEALING RESEARCH: WORKING DEFINITIONS AND TERMS
Larry Dossey, MD

BIOENERGY DEFINITIONS AND RESEARCH GUIDELINES
Kenneth J Hintz, PhD
Garret L Yount, PhD
Ivan Kadar, PhD
Gary Schwartz, PhD
Richard Hammerschlag, PhD
Shin Lin, PhD

DISTANT HEALING INTENTION: DEFINITIONS AND EVOLVING GUIDELINES FOR LABORATORY STUDIES
Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
Dean Radin, PhD
Bertram F. Malle, PhD
Stefan Schmidt, PhD
Jessica Utts, PhD
Garret L. Yount, PhD

HEALING PRAYER OUTCOMES STUDIES: CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS
Jeffery A. Dusek, PhD
John A. Astin, PhD
Patricia L. Hibberd, MD, PhD
Mitchell W. Krucoff, MD

STANDARDS FOR CONDUCTING CLINICAL BIOFIELD ENERGY HEALING RESEARCH
Sara L. Warber, MD
Andrea Gordon, MD
Brenda W. Gilespie, PhD
Melodie Olson, PhD
Nassim Assefi, MD

RESEARCH GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE HEALING RELATIONSHIP IN CLINICAL NURSING
Janet F. Quinn, PhD, RN, FAAN
Marlaine Smith, PhD, RN
Cheryl Ritenbaugh, PhD, MPH
Kristen Swanson, PhD, RN, FAAN
M. Jean Watson, PhD, RN, FAAN

RESEARCH GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE HEALING RELATIONSHIP IN CLINICAL MEDICINE
William L. Miller, MD, MA
Benjamin F. Crabtree, PhD
M. Bridget Duffy, MD
Ronald M. Epstein, MD
Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD

A SYSTEMATIC REIVEW OF THE QUALITY OF RESEARCH ON HANDS-ON AND DISTANCE HEALING: CLINICAL AND LABORATORY STUDIES
Cindy C. Crawford, BA
Andrew G. Sparber, RN, MS, CS
Wayne B. Jonas, MD

Contributing Authors

Nassim Assefi, MD
University of Washington

John Astin, PhD
California Pacific Medical Center

Ronald A. Chez, MD
Samueli Institute

Benjamin Crabtree, PhD
UMDNJ-RWJ Medical school
Department of Family Medicine

Cindy C. Crawford
Samueli Institute

Larry Dossey, MD
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
InnoVision Communications

Bridget M. Duffy, MD
Medtronic Foundation

Jeffery Dusek, PhD
Mind/Body Medical Institute

Ronald M. Epstein, MD
Family Medicine Center

Brenda Gillespie, PhD
University of Michigan
Center for Statistical Consultation and Research

Andrea Gordon, MD

Richard Hammerschlag, PhD
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine

Patricia Hibberd, MD, PhD
Clinical Research Institute
Tufts-New England Medical Center

Kenneth J Hintz, PhD
George Mason University

David Hufford, PhD
Penn State College of Medicine

Wayne B. Jonas, MD
Samueli Institute

Ivan Kadar, PhD
Interlink Systems Sciences, Inc.

Mitchell Krucoff, MD
Duke University Medical Center

Shin Lin, PhD
Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine

Bertram F. Malle, PhD
University of Oregon

William L. Miller, MD, MA
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network

Daniel Moerman, PhD
University of Michigan, Dearborn

Melodie Olson, RN, PhD
College of Nursing, Charleston

Janet Quinn, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dean Radin, PhD
Institute of Noetic Sciences

Cheryl Ritenbaugh, PhD, MPH
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research

Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
Institute of Noetic Sciences

Stefan Schmidt, PhD
University Hospital Freiburg

Gary Schwartz, PhD
University of Arizona
Department of Psychology

Marlaine Smith, RN, PhD
University of Colorado

Kurt Stange, MD, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Department of Family Medicine

Kristen Swanson, PhD, RN, FAAN
Family and Child Nursing
University of Washington

Jessica Utts, PhD
Department of Statistics
University of California, Davis

Harald Walach, PhD
University of Freiburg

Sara Warber, MD
Department fo Family Medicine
University of Michigan

M. Jean Watson, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN
University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center School of Nursing

Garret Yount, PhD
California Pacific Medical Center

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