Personal Health Management: A portfolio-based approach to reducing the complexity and burden of health and healthcare

Optimal health is an integrative process, a fine tuning of physical, emotional and spiritual elements customized to each patient's needs and preferences. This presentation by David Solie introduces an important new approach to integrative medicine: the personal health portfolio.

Modeled after the portfolios used by financial advisors, this pioneering program provides clients with a unique portfolio-system to organize health assets, create a sustainable plan for optimal health, and reduce the management burden.

David Solie

David Solie, MS, PA is a gifted speaker whose keynote and breakout presentations on communication between generations have won critical acclaim from audiences throughout the United States and Canada. His compelling stories, unique insights, humour, compassion, and inspirational delivery have made him a favourite of financial advisors, attorneys, accountants, healthcare providers, senior service professionals, planned giving specialists, caregivers, and general audiences.

He is the author of How to Say it to Seniors: Closing the Communication Gap with Our Elders, published by Prentice Hall Press.

A Better Way of Looking at Stress

Michael Clarkson - leading authority in the emerging field of fear management will discuss how we can use stress intelligently and how we can make it work to our advantage.

Michael Clarkson

Michael Clarkson has been intensely researching fear management since 1988. Taking a new approach to studying stress, Clarkson tells us that fear is at the base of the stress response, and shows us how to use nervousness to our advantage.

A former top amateur athlete, Clarkson has been a daily newspaper reporter since 1967, and has won 11 national and international awards. He received international acclaim for a syndicated article on his encounter with reclusive author J.D. Salinger.

Clarkson is the author of Intelligent Fear - How to Make Fear Work for You and Quick Fixes for Everyday Fears, which contain clear and effective strategies to deal with everything from fear of change, fear of technology, and even fear of going to the doctor.