Membership Committee Meeting

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Communications and Marketing Committee Meeting 

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Program Committee Meeting 

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Planned Giving Committee Meeting 

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Executive Committee Meeting 

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Advancement Committee Meeting 

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November 12, 2021 

Cannabis- Everything You Need to Know and Be Pain Free with CBD

Cannabis Therapy in the 21^st Century

 Virtual Meeting 

12:00 PM CT - 1:30 PM CT  

A confirmation is sent immediately upon registration with the virtual link for the day of the event, if you do not receive it, please contact us at iomcstaff@iomc.org. 

Complimentary - Open to all  

Post-Election —  In the 19^th century, cannabis was the most common ingredient in the American pharmacopeia. Park-Davis, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck prepared digestible and topical medicines for prescription. By the 1930’s; however, a nefarious political agenda, grounded in an inert economy and racial and ethnic bias, passed the Marijuana Tax Law, ushering in decades of needless cannabis prohibition and a famous war on drugs.

Fortunately, the exploration of exogenous cannabinoids and discovery of the endocannabinoid system, combined with an informed public, have reconceptualized cannabis as a harm reduction (rather than gateway) substance that restores homeostasis, treats countless diseases and conditions, improves psychological health, secures sleep, and manages pain.

Though cannabis remains on DEA Schedule 1, reserved for dangerous drugs with no medical value, it is fully or partially legal in 53 states and D.C., rendering 88% of the U.S. population eligible for cannabis therapy. Persons over 65 account for the highest increase in rate of use and studies indicate their most pressing concern is the inability to secure information and guidance about cannabis from their providers.

By attending this virtual session with expert representatives from practice and pharma, you will:

• Identify with the subtleties surrounding dosage and consumption of a plant-based medicine, including the significance of the relationship between patient, provider, and producer of the medication
• Learn the experiences of a practice in which the desired treatment is designated as illegal by the federal government and not subject to payment by insurance; and
• Appreciate the range of therapeutic application of cannabis for patients of all ages and the critical need for continued research in both practice and pharma.

    

   

Speakers

• Melanie Dreher, PhD, RN, Dean Emeritus, Rush University, and Anthropologist-Moderator
• Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, Founding member and President of the Society for Cannabis   Clinicians
• Eloise Theisen, RN, Adult Geriatric Nurse Practitioner, and President of the American Cannabis Nurses Association

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Board of Governors Board Meeting 

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Communications and Marketing Committee Meeting 

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Planned Giving Committee Meeting 

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Program Committee Meeting 

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Advancement Committee Meeting 

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Executive Committee Meeting 

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December 17, 2021 

Save  the Date

Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response 

 Virtual Meeting 

12:00 PM CT - 1:00 PM CT  

A confirmation is sent immediately upon registration with the virtual link for the day of the event, if you do not receive it, please contact us at iomcstaff@iomc.org. 

Complimentary - Open to all  

Post-Election — Check back with us for more details and to register soon! 

 From former Biden Senior Advisor Andy Slavitt, Preventable is the definitive inside account of the United States' failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Slavitt chronicles what he saw and how much could have been prevented -- an unflinching investigation of the cultural, political, and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.

Speaker/Author   

Andrew M. Slavitt is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration. A leader of the team that helped to repair the healthcare.gov website after its initial rollout, he was nominated by Barack Obama to run CMS in July 2015.^[1][2][3] In January 2021, Slavitt accepted a temporary role as Senior Pandemic Advisor^[4] to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response team. He stepped down from that role in June 2021.

Suggested readings 

Andy Slavitt on How Politics Became a Public Health Crisis | MedPage Today

The US Fumbled the Early COVID-19 Response in Two Major Ways

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