Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

09/16/2026

You don’t know what you don’t know.

Stephen Dahmer credits the University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Fellowship with opening the door to the healing-centered medicine he had been looking for as a young physician.

Integrative medicine has taken Dr. Dahmer all over the world. To clinics in rural communities and under canopies South America, to meetings in DC on whole-person care policy and research labs studying sleep, psychedelics, and cancer care.

For these reasons and more, he is dedicated to training as many practitioners as possible through the The University of Arizona part-time, remote fellowship, certificate program, elective rotation for medical students and residents, and add-on online training for residents at the University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Center

09/15/2026

Meet with Integrative Medicine Fellowship faculty TODAY on Zoom.

Two sessions available. One at 3:00pm PT/6:00pm ET and another at 6:00pm PT/9:00pm ET

The University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Fellowship is for physicians, doctoral clinicians, and advanced practitioners who are called to healing and whole-person care.

Developed for a practitioner’s schedule, the part-time remote format facilitates integrative medicine training that works alongside your practice.

Over the course of two years you will work closely with University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine faculty, receive clinical mentorship from integrative medicine physicians, and gather in person at a Tucson nature resort for three rejuvenating experiential CME weeks.

Your Fellowship cohort will become your community.
Your own well-being will become a testimony for your patients and colleagues. And the doors that open with integrative medicine will reignite your passion for healing and medicine.

Register for one of today's faculty session here: https://awcim.arizona.edu/education/fellowship/qa.html

09/14/2026

We invite you to answer a call for proposals for the 2027 Integrative Medicine Conference at the University of Arizona.

There are two opportunities to submit to IMC27.

#1 Poster presentations: An open call to submit alongside a health sciences resident or student as co-presenter in one of six categories:

Educational Innovation
Clinical Innovation
Wellness Programming
Culinary Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine
Integrative Medicine for Special Populations

#2 Lightning Lectures: A call to AWCIM Alumni and Associates to give a ten-minute presentation at the Preconference Alumni & Associates Day on March 10, in one of three tracks:

Clinical & Practical Applications
Research & Innovation
Wildcard & Healing Stories

The deadline for both opportunities is October 31, 2026.

The Join us for the Integrative Medicine CME conference on March 10–12 in Tucson.

Full details and submission forms: awcim.arizona.edu/imc

09/09/2026

$595 full CME conference registration now through September 30 at awcim.arizona.edu/imc

Earlier than Early Bird is back. For a short time, register for the 2027 Integrative Medicine Conference at the best rate of $595 and claim your spot at the conference that SOLD OUT last year.

The Integrative Medicine Conference at the University of Arizona brings together researchers, clinicians, and innovators in medicine for two days of Innovation in Integrative Medicine.

Whether you are a longtime integrative practitioner or are just curious about whole person care, you belong here.

Check out the agenda and register now at awcim.arizona.edu/imc

🎥: thank you to Ripple Studios for capturing the indescribable energy at last year's conference.

09/09/2026

- here’s our pitch…

What IS integrative medicine? It is just good medicine!

It is NOT an alternative to conventional medicine.

It IS practiced in clinics and hospitals around the world.

Integrative medicine is what we all know medicine can and should be.

It is the healing kind of medicine every practitioner envisioned when applying for medical school, PA programs, and nursing degrees.

Integrative Medicine considers the whole person.
Body. Mind. Spirit. Community.
Everything that makes a human being a human being .

Integrative medicine encompasses all aspects of lifestyle: nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, relationships, meaning + purpose.

Integrative medicine is evidence informed. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms. Good medicine is based in good science.

Integrative medicine includes whole and traditional systems of health.

IM includes mind-body medicine, Ayurvedic pulse assessment, acupuncture, botanical medicine, and motivational interviewing to name a few.

Integrative medicine training includes a rigorous scientific study of vitamins, minerals, supplements, and herbs including therapeutic doses, interactions, evidence, efficacy, and onset of action.

It appropriately uses both conventional and complementary methods to facilitate the body’s innate healing response.

Integrative medicine emphasizes the therapeutic partnership between practitioner and patient.

Whenever possible, integrative medicine looks to effective interventions that are natural and less invasive.

Integrative medicine offers accessible tools that are free of financial cost. Breathwork exercises. Guided imagery links. Open-source patient handouts and toolkits. Prescriptions to go on walks, sit under a tree, or call an old friend.

Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and reduction of chronic disease, the prevention of illness are paramount in integrative medicine.

And within integrative medicine, the practitioner’s own well-being is so very critical. You cannot pour from an empty well.

If that sounds good to you visit us at awcim.arizona.edu

08/26/2026

We’re back with another episode of Take It or Leave It, a series in which our behind the scenes team shares some health and wellness items they have seen online and asks if Andrew Weil, M.D. would “take ‘em or leave ‘em.”

Fun fact: jigsaw puzzles offer quite a few health benefits. Today, you might call putting together a puzzle an “analog activity.”

Puzzling offers your brain a break from screens and notifications and can help provide a moment of mindfulness, improve concentration, and offer long term cognitive benefits.

Let this be your sign to pull out a puzzle this weekend!

08/24/2026

Congratulations, Mari Ricker, MD.

Last week, Dr. Ricker was formally installed as the inaugural SueBob Vaughan Leaders Endowed Chair at the W.A. Franke Honors College.

A professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and a board-certified family medicine physician, Dr. Ricker has devoted her career to medical education — and to helping students, residents and faculty learn to care for themselves as healers.

Here at AWCIM, she directs the Integrative Medicine in Residency program, advancing the Center's mission to transform health care through integrative medicine education and whole-person care.

Dr. Ricker's new role as Endowed Chair extends that work to undergraduates. Made possible by a gift from Bob and Sue Vaughan and a partnership with the Franke Honors College, she will bring courses in integrative health and whole-person wellness to honors students, along with special events throughout the year — and build new connections among Franke Honors, the College of Medicine – Tucson and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

This is what collaboration looks like on a campus dedicated to the success and well-being of its students.

https://awcim.arizona.edu/news/AWCIM_Mari_Ricker_SueBob_Vaughn_endowed_chair

08/21/2026

A recently published narrative review in Obstetrics & Gynecology, co-authored by Denise Millstine, MD, associate director of the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, examines the evidence across mind-body therapies, acupuncture, nutrition, exercise and botanicals.

"Integrative Medicine Approaches for Menopause" examines symptoms, bone and cardiometabolic health, psychological wellbeing, social and spiritual factors, and the realities of access to care.

The review brings these considerations together in a proposed Whole Health Menopause Care framework designed to support individualized, evidence-informed care across the menopause care.

DM us for a link to the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists reciew

08/18/2026

If you are curious about an integrative approach to psychiatry, Andrew Weil, M.D., and Scott Shannon, MD, recently published an article in Frontiers in Psychiatry titled, 'Systems-based psychiatry: insights from psychedelic research on mechanisms of healing.'

A systems-based approach to psychiatric includes a patient's brain, mind, relationships, environment, and lifestyle.

Drawing on research in neuroscience, complexity science and psychedelics, the authors propose that mental health conditions may be better understood through this whole-person lens.

The article also explores psychedelic and ketamine research, examining evidence behind short-course psychedelics paired with appropriate therapeutic support.

Current psychiatric models, while clinically valuable, remain limited in their ability to account for the complexity, variability, and context dependence of ...

08/13/2026

Community is medicine. Movement workshops with Diverse Dance Arts are one of our absolute favorites.

Come together this Saturday for a free event that will fill your cup and heal your spirit.

This Diverse Dance Arts experience will explore and examine what it means to reconnect with ourselves through mindfulness, to reclaim our innate resilience and to draw connections between our thoughts and our movement patterns.

Participants will also build community by learning of the sunflower’s crown, which represents the third ChezSpirit pillar of Healing.

Engage with creative movement and reflective dialogue, complemented by thoughtfully curated music & sound.

Saturday - August 15th | 1- 3pm
Location: Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine | 1502 E Mabel St, Tucson, AZ 85719 (Cantor Bldg.)

FREE PARKING in the lot.

This event is part of the 2026 SaludArte project, a public art and public health initiative by the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona and the Pima County Health Department.