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Recent Talks and Presentations  

1st November 2011. All Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare, Portcullis House, London. "The state of acupuncture research".

7th October 2011. European Congress on Integrative Medicine, Charité University, Berlin. "Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis.

3rd September 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Denmark. “Research on acupuncture, the state of play and challenges facing the field.”

1st September 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Denmark. “Complexity in the study of acupuncture.”

10th June 2011. The Quest for Personalised Health, University of Westminster, London. “Complexity in health-related research.”

3rd June 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day. “Acupuncture Trialists’ Collaboration: acupuncture for chronic pain.” 

30th March 2011. CAMSTRAND Conference Workshop, University of Southampton. “Complementary medical research in a colder climate”.

12th March 2011. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, Goodenough College, London. “Uncertainty, paradox and doubt in acupuncture research.”

11th March 2011. Future of Integrative Medicine Symposium, Templeton College, University of Oxford. “Uncertainty, doubt and paradox in acupuncture research.”  

10th December 2010. ASA-TCM Congress, Basel, Switzerland. "Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial".

1st-3rd October 2010. Symposium of Acupuncture & Meridian Studies, Busan, South Korea. "Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial" and "Neuroimaging the effects of acupuncture and de qi"

22nd May 2010. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day. Two presentations: “Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic trial to answer a real world question”; and “Does de qi make a difference? An exploration of brain imaging with functional magnetic resonance imaging”

18th March 2010. Society for Acupuncture Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Three presentations: “Acupuncture under attack: how do we respond using the current evidence base?”; “Pragmatic research: acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome”; and “Neuroimaging of acupuncture using magnetoencephalography (MEG)”

9th December 2009. Royal College of Physicians. Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome.

23rd September 2009. University of Leeds. An overview of acupuncture research in York: some small successes and some large challenges.

8th September 2009. International Association for the Study of Asian Medicine and the Bhutan Institute for Traditional Medicine Services.  On pragmatic research to explore real world benefits.

22nd May 2009. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day: Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic trial to answer a real world question. 

21st May 2009. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day: Acupuncture, science and building an evidence base.

14th April 2009. Integrated health: putting people first. Prince of Wales' Foundation for Integrated Medicine, King's Fund, London. Making sense of the evidence, what works and what doesn't in complementary medicine.

28th February 2009. European Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, Zurich. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic clinical evaluation.

28th February 2009. European Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, Zurich. Acupuncture research to explore real world benefits.

20th January 2009. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Zhongzhimen Hospital, Beijing. Pragmatic randomised controlled trials and research into acupuncture.  

20th January. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Zhongzhimen Hospital, Beijing. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic trial.

2nd October 2008. STRICTA – CONSORT Consensus meeting, Freiburg, Germany. What have we learned about STRICTA? Insights from reviews and expert opinion.

22nd September 2008. Society for Acupuncture Research, Washington DC, USA. Pooled data from systematic reviews of acupuncture for chronic pain.

6th September 2008. British Acupuncture Society, Royal Holloway University, London. Acupuncture and evidence based medicine: is there cause for optimism?

2nd June 2008. Yorkshire Rheumatology Multidisciplinary Group, Wetherby, Yorkshire, UK. Acupuncture for musculoskeletal conditions, and Complementary medicine: an overview.

17th May 2008. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, Bedford, UK. Acupuncture for low back pain in primary care: evidence over the longer term from a randomised controlled trial.

17th May 2008. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, Bedford, UK. The neuroimaging of acupuncture; comparing superficial needling (Japanese style) to deep needling (Chinese style).

1st May 2008. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Congress Rothenburg, Germany. Acupuncture for low back pain.

11th April 2008. Society of Homeopaths, Leicester, UK. Research strategies for building a relevant evidence base for complementary and alternative medicine.  

11th November 2007, Society for Acupuncture Research, Baltimore, USA. Whole system strategies for developing the evidence without distorting the medicine.

22nd October 2007, King's Fund and Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, London. Pragmatic randomised trials: rigour with relevance.

6th October 2007. Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, London. Chinese herbal medicine: developing evidence relevant to current practice.

6th June 2007. Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York. Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: an exploratory study.

23rd April 2007. International Association for the Study of East Asian Medicine conference "Authenticity, Best Practice and the Evidence Mosaic: The Challenge of Integrating Traditional East Asian Medicines into Western Health Care " at University of Westminster. Title: Acupuncture Research: strategies for developing the evidence without distorting the medicine.

15th January 2007. Institute of Rehabilitation, University of Hull, Hull. The effectiveness of acupuncture for back pain.

16th September 2006. British Acupuncture Council Annual Conference. Acupuncture and the great placebo debate.

4th September 2006. Glasgow Cafe Scientifique. Acupuncture & neuroimaging: where East meets West. [Summary]

16th June 2006, Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Acupuncure and neuroimaging: implications for clinical practice.
8th June 2006, Cheltenham Science Festival. Alternative Medicine - Acupuncture - How does it work? A joint presentation with Professor Kathy Sykes of University of Bristol and neuroscientist Dr Mark Lythgoe of University College London with a focus on acupuncture and its effect on the brain.
30th May 2006 Co-Sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Osher Institute and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Invited speaker: "Neuroimaging acupuncture at LI-4 (Hegu): is superficial needling a control for deep?" 

9th March 2006: Hull York Medical School Third Annual Research Conference, Hull. Invited presentation: Neuroimaging responses to acupuncture: comparing superficial and deep needling.

17th Nov 2005: National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, USA. Invited poster presentation: Neuroimaging the response to acupuncture at LI-4 (Hegu): comparing superficial and deep needling.

14th Nov 2005: Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford. Invited speaker: Acupuncture and the randomised controlled trial (RCT) – developing the evidence.

12th October 2005: Inaugural Conference of the Foundation’s GP Associates, St James Palace, London. Invited speaker: Developing the evidence base for integrated medicine.

30th June 2005: Alternative & Complementary Health Research Network, Nottingham. Can individualised treatments be standardised? A consensus method to develop a treatment protocol of acupuncture trial for depression.

14th May 2005: Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Invited as Chair and Closing Keynote speaker. Strategies for Acupuncture Research.

4th March 2005: Wolds Primary Care Research Network, Hull. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for low back pain in primary care.

2nd December 2004: Asian Medicine, Tradition and Modernity Conference organised by the International Society for Traditional Asian Medicine, London. Invited presentation: Evidence-based acupuncture: a challenge ahead.

2nd October 2004: Society for Acupuncture Research, San Francisco. Acupuncture for tinnitus – a series of n-of-1 trials.

1st October 2004: Society for Acupuncture Research, San Francisco. Invited presentation: Standards for reporting the intervention in clinical trials of acupuncture.

25th September 2004: British Acupuncture Council, London. Invited presentation Acupuncture for Low Back Pain.

1st-2nd July 2004: Alternative & Complementary Health Research Network, Nottingham University, UK. Longer term outcomes in a trial of acupuncture for low back pain.

11th-13th June 2004: 4th International Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Manchester, England. Invited speaker: Patient reports on adverse events associated with acupuncture: results of a prospective national survey.

3rd June 2004: Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for depression: some current research challenges.

17th April 2004: British Medical Acupuncture Society, Spring Scientific Meeting, London, UK. Invited presentation: Patient reports on adverse events associated with acupuncture.

31st March 2004: Prince of Wales’s Foundation For Integrated Health, Stafford, UK. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for depression: first steps in a clinical evaluation.

6th March 2004: 8th Acupuncture Research Symposium, London, UK. Is acupuncture cost-effective for low back pain? Results from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

21st November 2003: 10th Annual Symposium on Complementary Health Care, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK. Acupuncture safety: what patients report on adverse events.

16th November 2003: Society of Acupuncture Research, Boston, USA. Patients reports of adverse events associated with acupuncture. A poster presentation.

15th November 2003: Society of Acupuncture Research, Boston, USA. Acupuncture for low back pain: results from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

14th September 2003: World Federation of Acupuncture Societies. Oslo, Norway. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

13th September 2003: World Federation of Acupuncture Societies. Oslo, Norway. Invited presentation Acupuncture safety: what patients report on adverse events. (Awarded Joint First Prize for presentation.)

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