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Anthroposophic Medical Training Conferences

 

The 2022 Training Conference

Therapeutic Foundations:
Physical, Functional, Emotional, Spiritual

Hosted by the Physicians' Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM), presented by The Medical Section at the Goetheanum, Switzerland

 

THREEFOLD CAMPUS in Chestnut Ridge, New York

Enter a protected space that allows you to think new thoughts

  • For more than 90 years, the Threefold community has provided a place for groups large and small to meet, study, and share ideas and experiences in a restful setting just 30 miles from New York City. Our leafy, bucolic campus offers a variety of venues, including classrooms and conference rooms of many shapes and sizes, a painting loft, eurythmy studios, and two auditoriums, as well as gardens, lawns, and forest paths. threefold.org

Experience new ways for understanding and observing the world

  • Hear lectures from this year’s guest faculty member Dr. David Martin, chair of Anthroposophic Medicine at Witten-Herdecke University, Germany. We are beginning a new 4-year cycle.

  • Start the new 5-year course in Anthroposophic Pharmacy, taught by Albert Schmidli, PharmD, & Steven Johnson DO

Connect your academic mind with your intuitive heart

  • Enjoy the practice of healing plant observation

  • Enter small group discussions and study sessions to enhance your understanding of the deep beauty and meaning of a whole-person healing process

  • Engage in clinical workshops and in evening presentations devoted to themes of spiritual growth and self-development

 

Join us April 3-10, 2022 for a chance to consider, shift, reorient, transform, and find guidance for moving into a new phase of life.

Open to all licensed prescribers (MD, DO, ND, NP, PA, DDS and PharmD), as well as students of those disciplines still in training.

Registration is now OPEN!

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"Every meeting, discussion and gathering I attended created an 'awe' that blew my mind. The lectures were extremely helpful and timely. It gave me a lot of support and hope for the work we do. There have been many suggestions, exercises and opportunities to learn and self-develop at the Anthroposophic Medical Training that I would not have found in any other 'scientific meetings'." 

— Vinay Parameswara, MD

Guest Faculty for the 2022 Training Conference

  • Dr. David Martin

    David Martin is the chair of Anthroposophic Medicine at Witten-Herdecke University, Germany. Born 1973 in Vermont, USA, he grew up in the USA, France and England. He is a pediatrician, pediatric endocrinologist, oncologist, diabetologist and hematologist. After being Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Tübingen, he is now Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, and leads the pediatric endocrinology, diabetology and integrative pediatric oncology services in the Filderklinik, an anthroposophic hospital in Germany. He has received several prizes for his research in the field of growth, skeletal development and endocrinology and is Counselling Professor of the German National Academic Foundation. He is the founder and director of www.feverapp.dewww.warmuptofever.org, and the Clinical Foundation Course of the Eugen-Kolisko Academy www.anthroposophicmedicine.org.uk , tutor of www.anthroposophic-drs-training.org, scientific director of icihm.damid.de/en and is co-founder and co-director of lebens-weise.org/ and www.mediafasting.org.

  • Albert Schmidli

    Albert Schmidli worked in a very responsible position in research and development for a major pharmaceutical company in Switzerland and Ireland. While he was preventing a huge chemical catastrophe in Ireland, on this threshold between life and death, he heard the call of the great initiate Christian Rosenkreuz. Following this inner call to serve Rudolf Steiner’s medical impulse, he joined Weleda, one of the world’s leading anthroposophic pharmaceutical companies. It is legendary that the company, inspired by his thoughts, set up a new pharmaceutical research and development department for him on this occasion. In this he developed in close cooperation with anthroposophic doctors new anthroposophic medicines for over 25 years and was at the same time responsible for training doctors and pharmacists. 10 years ago he decided to live as a lecturer and teacher, which he and others recognized as a real calling. Since then he has been invited as a trainer to seminars worldwide to train anthroposophic doctors and pharmacists. Also trained as a Waldorf teacher himself, his lectures are not only infinitely profound but also full of humor. The inspiring experiments are admired not only by the participants but also by the lecturers in many countries.

2022 Training Conference Faculty

  • Dr. Adam Blanning, MD

    Dr. Adam Blanning, MD, is certified in Anthroposophic Medicine and board-certified in family medicine, and has served on the faculty of New York Medical College and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Adam is the director for PAAM's training programs, including the IPMT. He founded and directs the Denver Center for Anthroposophic Therapies, which offers Anthroposophic Medicine, therapeutic eurythmy, Anthroposophic Nursing and rhythmical massage. He works with Waldorf schools in Denver and Boulder as a educational and developmental consultant. Adam is also the president of AHA (Anthroposophic Health Association).

  • Dr. Steven Johnson, DO

    Dr. Johnson is currently President of the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM) and a Board representative for the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM). He is an internationally respected lecturer, teacher and physician, and has dedicated himself to bridging Anthroposophic and integrative principals into mainstream medicine. After creating one of the first successful models of integrative care in Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Johnson joined the Fellowship Community in Spring Valley, New York, which is an eldercare initiative dedicated to social therapy and community life.

  • Carmen Hering, DO

    Dr. Hering integrates Anthroposophic Medicine with Osteopathic and Family Medicine in private practice in Albany, California. She serves as adjunct faculty at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, trains medical students in her office, teaches at the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training (BACWTT), and serves as faculty for the Annual Training Week. She also serves as a Board member for the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM).

  • Alicia Landman-Reiner, MD

    Dr. Landman-Reiner practiced AM as a board-certified family doctor from 1986 through 2004. She founded PAAM Training in 2000, was its director into 2015, and continues to manage its mentoring program. She has greatly enjoyed the privilege of teaching doctors about AM in the US and internationally. She worked for many years with several Waldorf schools.

  • David Gershan, MD

    Dr. Gershan is a family practice physician in San Francisco, who has extended his care to Anthroposophic Medicine and HIV primary care. He serves as a Board member for the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM). He has hosted a medical study group in Anthroposophic Medicine in San Francisco for 25 years, has contributed to the PAAM Distance Learning Program, continues to teach in the Annual Training Week, and lectures to various Waldorf schools, public universities and to the Biodynamic Agriculture community. In his public medical career, he has served as Clinic Medical Supervisor, Director of Homeless Medicine, and Director of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic, among other posts, in San Mateo County, California. Until recently he also provided clinical care at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital. When not practicing medicine and teaching, he enjoys playing the cello.

  • Veronica Koopmans, MD, CCFP, FCFP

    Veronica practices family medicine and anthroposophic medicine at Pegasus Medical Practice near Toronto, Canada since 2002.  She sees many children from the local Waldorf school. She combines this with Medical care at the Palliative Care Unit and Complex Continuing Care Unit at the local hospital. She completed her training in family medicine and anthroposophic medicine in the Netherlands and started at her current position after receiving Canadian certification. She has been involved in organising many medical conferences, workshops at the Waldorf school and frequently teaches observers in her practice. In her spare time she plays viola and loves spending as much time as possible outdoors.

PAAM’s week-long Annual Training Conferences

Every year PAAM offers a week-long Annual Training Conference in the late Spring.
There are four clinical topics, which are rotated each year:

1.  Therapeutic Foundations: Physical, Functional, Emotional, Spiritual (2022)

2.  A New Physiologic Paradigm: Threefold Insights for Health and Illness (2023)

3.  Seven Constitutional Gestures in Diagnosis and Treatment (2024)

4.  Beyond the Molecular and Mechanical Model: Lung, Liver, Kidney, Heart (2025)