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Recent presentations

	1st May 2008. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Congress Rothenburg. Acupuncture for low back pain. [PowerPoint]
	11^th April 2008. Society of Homeopaths, Leicester. Research strategies for building a relevant evidence base for complementary and alternative medicine.[PowerPoint]
	11th November 2007, Society for Acupuncture Research, Baltimore, USA. Whole system strategies for developing the evidence without distorting the medicine. [PowerPoint]
	22nd October 2007, King's Fund and Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, London. Pragmatic randomised trials: rigour with relevance. [PowerPoint]
	6th October 2007. Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, London. Chinese herbal medicine: developing evidence relevant to current practice. [Powerpoint]

	6th June 2007. Department of Health Sciences, University of York. Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: an exploratory study. [PowerPoint]
	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. [PowerPoint]
	15th January 2007. Institute of Rehabilitation, University of Hull. The effectiveness of acupuncture for back pain. [Power Point]

	16th September 2006. British Acupuncture Council Annual Conference. Acupuncture and the great placebo debate. [PowerPoint]
	4th September 2006. Glasgow Cafe Scientifique. Acupuncture & neuroimaging: where East meets West. [Summary]
	16th June 2006, Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium. Acupuncure and neuroimaging: implications for clinical practice. [PowerPoint]
	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. [PowerPoint]
	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?" [PowerPoint]
	9th March 2006: Hull York Medical School Third Annual Research Conference, Hull. Invited presentation: Neuroimaging responses to acupuncture: comparing superficial and deep needling. [PowerPoint]
	17^th Nov 2005: National Institutes of Health, USA. Invited poster presentation: Neuroimaging the response to acupuncture at LI-4 (Hegu): comparing superficial and deep needling. [PowerPoint]
	14^th Nov 2005: Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford. Invited speaker: Acupuncture and the randomised controlled trial (RCT) – developing the evidence. [PowerPoint]
	12^th October 2005: Inaugural Conference of the Foundation’s GP Associates, St James Palace, London. Invited speaker: Developing the evidence base for integrated medicine. [PowerPoint]
	30^th 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. [PowerPoint]
	14^th May 2005: Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium. Invited as Chair and Closing Keynote speaker. Strategies for Acupuncture Research. [PowerPoint]
	4^th March 2005: Wolds Primary Care Research Network, Hull. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for low back pain in primary care. [PowerPoint]
	2^nd 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. [PowerPoint]
	2^nd October 2004: Society for Acupuncture Research, San Francisco. Acupuncture for tinnitus – a series of n-of-1 trials. [PowerPoint]
	1^st October 2004: Society for Acupuncture Research, San Francisco. Invited presentation: Standards for reporting the intervention in clinical trials of acupuncture. [PowerPoint]
	25^th September 2004: British Acupuncture Council, London. Invited presentation Acupuncture for Low Back Pain. [PowerPoint]
	1^st-2^nd July 2004: ACHRN (Alternative & Complementary Health Research Network), Nottingham University, UK. Longer term outcomes in a trial of acupuncture for low back pain. [PowerPoint]
	11^th-13^th June 2004: 4^th International Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Manchester, England. Invited speaker: Patient reports on adverse events associated with acupuncture: results of a prospective national survey. [PowerPoint]
	3^rd June 2004: Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for depression: some current research challenges. [PowerPoint]
	17^th April 2004: British Medical Acupuncture Society, Spring Scientific Meeting, London, UK. Invited presentation: Patient reports on adverse events associated with acupuncture. [PowerPoint]
	31^st March 2004: Prince of Wales’s Foundation For Integrated Health, Stafford, UK. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for depression: first steps in a clinical evaluation. [PowerPoint]
	6th March 2004: 8^th Acupuncture Research Symposium, London, UK. Is acupuncture cost-effective for low back pain? Results from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. [PowerPoint]
	21^st November 2003: 10^th Annual Symposium on Complementary Health Care, Royal College of Physicians, London UK. Acupuncture safety: what patients report on adverse events. [PowerPoint]
	16^th November 2003: Society of Acupuncture Research, Boston, USA. Patients reports of adverse events associated with acupuncture. A poster presentation. [PowerPoint]
	15^th November 2003: Society of Acupuncture Research, Boston, USA. Acupuncture for low back pain: results from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. [PowerPoint]
	14^th September 2003: World Federation of Acupuncture Societies. Oslo, Norway. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. [PowerPoint]
	13^th 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.) [PowerPoint]