Integrative Medicine is the practice of medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing. Developed and Adopted by Consortium for Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, May 2004
Edited May 2005
The UCLA Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine (CCIM) is a campus-wide program committed to the study, and application of integrative medicine. The CCIM sponsors public and professional education, facilitates research and promotes appropriate practice of complementary, alternative, and mind-body medicine.
Directed by a multidisciplinary group of UCLA Center and Program leaders, the CCIM reaches across the disciplines of medicine, public health, psychology, psychiatry, the arts and business. This group of forward thinking clinicians and scholars are dedicated to a vision of building a 21st century model of medicine and health promotion that integrates state-of-the-art science with traditional healing principles of compassion, community interaction, and self-regulation. This exceptional and diverse group of CCIM member programs, each individually world renowned, are working together to promote UCLA as a pre-eminent leader in integrative medicine.
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