CRR Attends ICIMH As Both Presenter And Exhibitor

The International Congress on Integrative Medicine & Health (ICIMH), held April 20-23 at the Hyatt Regency in Salt Lake City, Utah, was exhilarating and informative. Held annually, ICIMH is the flagship gathering of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health‘s 80+ member institutions from around the world. Clinicians, researchers, educators, and policymakers from as far away as Japan, China, and Australia joined together to explore this year’s theme, Revolutionizing Health Care: Measuring What Matters, Scaling What Works. The conference was robustly attended, and participants and presenters formed a collegial and upbeat community.

This was the first time CRR has attended ICIMH, as both a presenter and an exhibitor. Our President, Dr. Natalie Dyer (above left), spoke about the study she co-authored with CRR Board member Dr. Ann Baldwin and our UK Reiki colleagues: Evaluation of a Distance Reiki Program for Frontline Healthcare Workers’ Health-Related Quality of Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The paper was the most-cited article for 2023 in Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health,a peer-reviewed, open access journal of evidence-based research on integrative medicine.  Dr. Dyer also presented a poster on a new study, An Evaluation of a Reiki Program for Healthcare Workers at Multiple Cancer Infusion Centers, set to be published this year.

CRR invested in a banner display, brochures, and pens for our exhibit table. Dr. Dyer and CRR board member Ann Thompson (above right) staffed the table, which attracted multiple attendees from universities, health centers, and high-level medical institutions — all of whom showed great interest in Reiki and in CRR’s mission. Many people were delighted to learn about the growing evidence base of hard science-based research on Reiki, and several researchers and educators expressed eagerness to collaborate with CRR to further expand research and outreach related to Reiki.

“It was a wonderful opportunity to talk about Reiki and raise our profile as an organization,” said Thompson. “I was encouraged to see how many smart, engaged professionals are supportive of Reiki as an evidence-based integrative health modality.”