Online Courses and Continuing Education
on Connective Tissue & Hypermobility Disorders and Ethics
Online Courses
Watch online courses at your own pace. Continuing Education credits available for NDs.
Live Webinars
Join us for LIVE WEBINARS, bring your own questions to our CASE STUDY REVIEWS, & INTERVIEWS WITH EXPERTS in their field.
Educational Materials
Downloadable educational materials, Journal reviews, Evidence Based practice summaries & Patient Education resources
Who Will Benefit
Providers and trainees of all types have completed this course: ND, PT, MD, DO, DC, PA, NP, LAC, OD, and students/residents. The more awareness our medical communities have of these conditions, the more easily we can all work together to improve patient care. Providers of integrative and conventional modalities for all age groups will benefit from this course.
Commitment to Ethics
Working with chronic disease communities provides an important ethical learning opportunity. Physicians often, inadvertently, perpetuate and cause harm to patients through many types of implicit bias including racism, classism, ageism, sizeism, sexism, knowledgism and ableism. We will help you understand the insidious ways bias impacts our patients and help you find pathways to dismantle your biases. This course includes a deeply meaningful conversation regarding ableism with a patient guest lecturer.
Past attendees cited this lecture as one of the most important discussions of the course. It is included in all learning modules as it is foundational to providing care to all patients.
Discolsures
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Alena Guggenheim, N.D.
Dr. Alena Guggenshim is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. She specializes in the care of children and adults with chronic pain and connective tissue disorders. She enjoys working with patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and associated complex syndromes. She assists patients navigate health care options and empowers them to make informed decisions.
Carla Guggenheim, DO
Dr. Carla Guggenheim went to medical school at age 35 and completed a DO rotating internship and ABIM Internal Medicine residency at Michigan State University followed by a Rheumatology fellowship at University of Iowa. She directed the first Naturopathic Rheumatology Residency from 2012-2018. She lectures and writes for the Institute of Functional Medicine and has published in peer reviewed journals. She has been in private practice in Lansing, MI since 2000.
