Glen Aukerman, MD, Director
The Ohio State University Center for Integrative Medicine (OSU CIM) combines integrative family, internal and pediatric medicine with evidence-based complementary/alternative medical
modalities. Located at 2000 Kenny Road in a 6,400-square-foot facility, the Center is part of the OSUMC’s Primary Care Network. Medical Director Glen Aukerman, MD, also directs the Division of Integrative Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine. Now in its third year as a clinical outpatient facility, the CIM has been gaining community support, receiving donations of more than $40,000 with plans for future planning and development funding. The CIM also encourages volunteerism. It has seven active volunteers and a Community Foundation Development Group of more than 60 members. Plans are to develop volunteer-led support groups and a Patient Resource Center staffed by volunteers.
Ongoing Programs
- The CIM allows students pursuing degrees in medicine and related healthcare professions opportunities to study integrative medicine’s role in their anticipated specialties. The CIM provides educational sessions for medical students, nurse practitioners and dietetics students, along with departmental grand rounds presentations, and rotation and shadowing opportunities for Med I through Med IV students, as well as residents from departments such as Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry and Dermatology. In addition, the Center provides informational and shadowing opportunities to physicians and nurse practitioners from the community.
- The CIM offers a one-year Integrative Medicine Fellowship to any specialty, enabling physicians to study with experts in all five domains of complementary medicine, as well as integrative family and internal medicine, and to develop clinical, research and academic capabilities in integrative medicine.
- The CIM has presented on integrative medicine through didactics, Grand Rounds, and at special meetings for Family Medicine residents, Internal Medicine, and at University
Hospital East and Ohio State’s James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. It has also presented courses for medical, nursing and allied health students.
- From July 2006 to June 2007, CIM providers made 103 presentations at regional and national conferences, for community groups and local and network hospitals, and through
the CIM Community Series, which includes communityeducation workshops on topics such as yoga, meditation, integrative medicine, acupuncture, chiropractics, nutrition,
massage and Ayurveda. Attendance has increased with a range of five to 82 participants for most sessions.
- From July 2006 to June 2007, the CIM saw 15,319 patients and generated $1.9 million in total revenue. Patients were from Columbus and central Ohio, plus a number who regularly
travel from other states or countries.
- Practitioners at the CIM include experts in integrative family medicine, Ayurveda TCM/acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, yoga and mind-body.
Accomplishments of 2007
- The CIM has attracted widespread attention, receiving phone and e-mail inquiries from around the world plus numerous radio, TV and print interviews from such media as
Northwest Airlines Inflight Magazine, WOSU radio, Ohio News Network local TV stations, Columbus CEO magazine, Columbus Monthly, Columbus Dispatch, Ohio State Alumni Magazine, the Medical Center newsletter, Keystone (newsletter of the OSUMC Service Board), and Health 1, (a publication of the OSUMC). The CIM was nominated for Business First Health Care Heroes Award in 2007.
- CIM Director Glen Aukerman, MD, received a 2007 OSUMC Clinical Excellence Award and was named to the board of directors for the American Board of Holistic Medicine.
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