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NC Beautiful has announced that Dr. Tracy Gaudet will present “An Integrative Approach to Women’s Health” at the 23rd NC Beautiful Golf Classic, to be held from June 6-8, 2008 at Pinehurst Resort. Dr. Gaudet is the executive director of Duke Integrative Medicine and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham.
Dr. Gaudet focuses on showing women how busy, stressful lives can cause illness and how they can get healthy by tapping into the inner wisdom of their bodies. With the increasing demands placed on women today, Dr. Gaudet says that it’s important for women to become more attuned with their health.
“I am thrilled to be doing this talk,” says Dr. Gaudet. “The vision of a healthy and beautiful environment is closely aligned with the vision of a healthy and beautiful life – and that’s what Integrative Medicine is all about.”
Dr. Gaudet joined the faculty at Duke University in November 2000 and assumed the position of director of the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine in April 2001. She has led Duke Integrative Medicine to the forefront of the field, helping to co-found The Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine and chairing the Membership Committee (2002-2004), as well as serving on the Steering, Executive, Education and Policy Committees. Dr. Gaudet actively leads public discourse with members of both the medical and lay communities, presenting talks on integrative medicine, as well as integrative approaches to menopause and other women’s health issues.
Prior to her work at Duke, Dr. Gaudet was the founding executive director of Dr. Andrew Weil’s University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine, helping to design the country’s first comprehensive curriculum in this new field and launching a two-year fellowship. The Program’s continuing education program offers educational opportunities for the clinician in practice, and has reached over 4,500 healthcare professionals to date.
Dr. Gaudet is the author of Consciously Female, a book on integrative medicine and women’s health, which was published by Bantam Books in 2004. Her most recent book, Body, Soul and Baby, was published by Bantam Books in January 2007. She also writes a monthly column for Body + Soul magazine.
Dr. Gaudet has been recognized as a leader in the emerging field of integrative medicine in McCall’s, Natural Health, Prevention, and New Age magazines, as well as the PBS documentary The New Medicine, ABC News 20/20, Oprah, Arts and Entertainment, and The People’s Pharmacy, and professional journals including AM News, Unique Opportunities, and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. She has served on the editorial boards of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Integrative Medicine Journal, and Seminars in Integrative Medicine and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, and the American Heart Journal.
NC Beautiful Executive Director, Steve Vacendak, is excited to be able to offer Dr. Gaudet’s knowledge and expertise on women’s health issues to the spouses of this year’s Golf Classic participants.
“Our Golf Classic sponsors are doing a positive thing by supporting our event,” says Vacendak. “This year, we wanted to show our appreciation by doing something special for them by giving their spouses the opportunity to experience optimal vitality and peak wellness. We’re extremely grateful to Dr. Gaudet for so generously giving her time and expertise to help make this year’s NC Beautiful Golf Classic another exceptional event.”
Dr. Gaudet says that her presentation at the NC Beautiful Classic fits well with Duke Integrative Medicine’s new golf immersion program – Peak Performance Golf. She explains that just like she is committed to improving people’s lives from the inside out, Peak Performance Golf provides expert golf guidance to help individuals master their game from the inside out.
Peak Performance Golf is an innovative program that unites professional-level golf expertise with world-class therapeutic services and workshops. Launched in 2002 and led by PGA Master Golf Professional Ed Ibarguen and Duke University assistant professor and doctor of physical therapy Eric Hegedus, this hands-on program is rooted in a performance philosophy that takes an individualized, whole-person approach to golf.
For more information about NC Beautiful or to become a 2008 NC Beautiful Golf Classic sponsor, call (919) 828-3190
About NC Beautiful
NC Beautiful has been part of the state’s environmental preservation community for 40 years, supporting awareness, education and beautification efforts that affect our quality of life. Today, we concentrate on hands-on and merit-based programs designed to empower our citizens to preserve the natural beauty of the state of North Carolina. Whether it’s school children building outdoor classrooms, graduate students developing cutting edge research, or a Boy Scout troop planting azaleas at an elder care facility, we make it possible for North Carolinians to keep NC Beautiful.
About Duke Integrative Medicine
Duke Integrative Medicine helps patients achieve maximum health and well being by blending advanced medical practice and research with proven complementary therapies that contribute to health, healing and disease treatment and prevention. At Duke Integrative Medicine, clinical care, individualized health coaching and therapeutic support work together to address the patient’s physical, mental and emotional needs. Located on the scenic Duke campus in Durham, North Carolina, Duke Integrative Medicine’s 27,000-plus square foot facility is the first of its kind devoted to the practice of integrative medicine. Designed for healing, the Duke Integrative Medicine Center offers warm spaces, scenic gardens and a broad array of therapies, programs and services, combining the best of academic medicine with whole-person healing traditions.
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