HerbalEGram: Volume 11, Issue 6, June 2014

FON Therapeutics, with the support of numerous individuals, companies, and integrative health care organizations, has honored John Weeks — publisher of Integrator Blog News & Reports and executive director of the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC) — with a lifetime achievement living tribute award and an e-book in recognition of his work. The e-book and award were made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM), the Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC), and ACCAHC, among others.^† The award was presented to Weeks on May 15, 2014, during the International Research Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health gala in Miami, Florida.¹ FON Therapeutics is a business consulting firm committed to helping integrative medicine and health enterprises grow their companies.

Weeks has served the integrative medicine community for almost 30 years as a writer, organizer, executive, and advocate. He has written for a number of publications, including The Pain Practitioner, Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, IntegrativePractitioner.com, the consumer-oriented Alternative Medicine magazine, and The Huffington Post, in addition to serving as an outside consultant for the World Health Organization Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023. His work has been cited by publications such as Newsweek, Modern Healthcare, Hospitals and Health Networks, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. His Integrator blog serves to link leaders in the field with policy, academic, and economic issues.²

Weeks also has a connection to the American Botanical Council, having served as a member of the Advisory Board and one term on the ABC Board of Trustees.

The e-book is 64 pages and includes over 150 tributes from noted members of the complementary medicine community such as Andrew Weil, MD; Josephine Briggs, MD, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Joe Pizzorno, ND, co-founder of Bastyr University; integrative medicine pioneer James Gordon, MD; and ABC’s Founder and Executive Director Mark Blumenthal.

“John is an integral part of the fabric of the [complementary and alternative medicine] and Integrative Medicine community, and has done as much or more than anyone in helping to promote and guide its evolution and growth,” wrote Blumenthal in the e-book.³

In Living Tribute: John Weeks is available as a free PDF download through FON’s website.⁴

†A full list of sponsors can be found here.


References

1. Sabin G. Integrative Health and Medicine Pioneer John Weeks Honored at IRCIMH. May 10, 2014. FON Therapeutics. Available here. Accessed June 4, 2014.
   
   
2. John Weeks. Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Healthcare website. Available here. Accessed June 4, 2014.
   
   
3. FON Therapeutics. In Living Tribute: John Weeks. Silver Spring, MD: FON Therapeutics; 2014. Available here. Accessed June 12, 2014.
   
   
4. Announcing! A Living Tribute to Integrative Health and Medicine Pioneer John Weeks. FON Therapeutics website. Available here. Accessed June 4, 2014.