Activites and Projects

Listed below are some of the activities and projects of our members.

• Poster: Harvesting the Best: Evaluation of Clinician Handbooks on Medicinal Herbs and Dietary Supplements.
  Authors: Julia Whelan, MS, AHIP, Sr. Outreach Librarian, Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA; Lana Dvorkin, PharmD, Acting Director, Center for Complementary and Alternative Pharmacotherapy, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston MA; Samira Timarac, PharmD Student, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston MA

• Herb Index-Boston Healing Landscape Project Traditional medicines used by Haitian and Latino cultural groups in the Boston area. Julie Whelan, Harvard Medical School.

• HolisticKids.org Julia Whelan MS; Lana Dvorkin PharmD. Presentation MLA 2002.

• Humpty Dumpty and the language of alternative medicine: some implications for information professionals
  David J. Owen, Library and CKM, University of California, San Francisco
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• An Information Oddity: The Quest for Reliable Resources and Tested Terminology in Alternative and Complementary Medicine (Chiropractic Libraries SIG, Co-sponsored by Comp Med SIG)

• The Language of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Longwood Herbal Taskforce Monographs, clinician summaries and patient handouts written by an interdisciplinary group. Updated by Dr. Paula Gardiner. Julie Whelan, Harvard Medical School.

• Transition from print to Web:creating and publishing a consortial chiropractic index
  Pam Bjork, Western Ststes Chiropractic College, Portland

• Why is complementary and alternative medicine an information oddity and where are the reliable resources? Charles B. Wessel, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh
  PowerPoint Slides (PDF format)