The event will take place on Monday, December 2, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. ET on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland and will also be livestreamed via NIH VideoCast. A reception will follow the symposium. Please register to attend.

The symposium will feature NCCIH’s annual Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Therapies delivered by Patricia M. Herman, N.D., Ph.D., senior behavioral scientist at RAND Corporation and co-director of the RAND Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions Center. Dr. Herman will speak on the “The Economic Impact of Whole Person Health” and make the case for transforming health care from a disease-centric approach to a whole person model. She will illustrate how an investment beginning in early middle age to support a healthy diet, physical activity, and stress management can plausibly lead to improved health and well-being, as well as reduced health care spending.