Tracy Gaudet, MD, executive director, Whole Health Institute, spoke on The Radical Redesign of Healthcare: The Why, What and How at the 4th Annual Patrick & Marguerite Sung Symposium: Whole Health & Wellness at the GW School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
Dr. Gaudet was the founding executive director of the Veterans Health Administration’s National Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation; executive director of Duke Integrative Medicine at Duke University Health System; and the founding executive director of the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine, where she headed up the design of the country’s first comprehensive curriculum in this new field and launched the distance learning fellowship.
Whole Health, or Whole Person Health, empowers and equips people to take charge of their physical, mental and spiritual health and live a full and meaningful life. This means a patient’s health team will get to know them as a person, before working with them to develop a personalized health plan based on their values, needs, and goals.
The Sung Symposium, featuring the Theodore and Cynthia Birnbaum Memorial Speaker, promotes the use of Integrative Medicine. This annual continuing education event teaches health care providers and consumers about Integrative Medicine and promotes the spread of research into the benefits of combining conventional medicine with evidence-based complementary medicine to promote optimal health and wellness.
Organized by the GW Office of Integrative Medicine & Health, this online only event occurred April 23, 2021. Learn more at smhs.gwu.edu/oimh
