Coming of the Light: The 2016 Integrator Top 10 for Policy and Action in Integrative Health and Medicine

If the present misfit of business models in #5 is a problem, then the critical response is to prepare leaders to understand this environment and figure out how to forge quality, and useful relationships and models. That, in a nutshell, is the mission of the Duke Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare led by Adam Perlman, MD, MPH. This article on the program notes that the core faculty unites a deeply experienced team: Ben Kligler, MD, MPH, from Continuum (above), now with the Veterans Administration; Lori Knutson, RN, BCHN, formerly Penny George Institute, now Meridian Health; Horrigan, who brings in 20 years in the field as a publisher, editor, executive director and writer (see The Bravewell Story, above); and Perlman whose system work includes both St. Barnabas in New Jersey, and Duke. Faculty includes Melinda Ring, MD, whose clinical program is financially thriving at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern. Perlman’s Duke program, while still climbing toward the black financially, is hitting on key quadruple aim targets that make the values case. Clearly this leadership program at Duke program must, with each class, become an even more potent crucible for finding answers.