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Updated at 11:15 a.m., Friday, June 15, 2007

Holistic center to open at UH medical school

Advertiser Staff

A wellness center focusing on holistic health and healing will open next month at the University of Hawai'i's John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Members of the medical school's Department of Complementary and Alternative Health Care will begin working in the center at medical school's Kaka'ako campus in mid-July.

"We will establish an additional source of integrative medical services that are reputable and responsive to the needs of the community," Dr. Rosanne Harrigan, the department's chairwoman, said in a news release issued today.

The group practice will be offered by the University Integrative Medicine Group (UIMG), a nonprofit subsidiary of UCERA, the University Clinical Education and Research Associates.

"Our mission is to practice integrative medicine by integrating allopathic medicine and complementary/alternative holistic as well as non-traditional methods and approaches that are not being fully used by health care providers," Harrigan said.

The center's initial emphasis will be: wellness evaluation, diabetic care, obesity, heart disease and pain management.

Interested patients can call Harrigan's office at 692-0909 to arrange appointments.