Natural Health Care Practitioners Connect at Ninth Annual Great River Symposium

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The ninth annual Great River Symposium and Spring Gathering drew nearly 300 practitioners and students to Northwestern Health Sciences University for continuing education and camaraderie from April 3-5, 2009. Seminars throughout the weekend focused on the theme, “The Healing Power of Asian Medicine...An Integrative Approach.”

“I come to network and re-connect with other practitioners,” said Heidi LaBore Smith, an acupuncturist and physical therapist from Duluth, Minn. “I always get useful clinical information and new ideas.”

“It’s good to be exposed to different ideas,”added Katherine Grassl, a student from Northwestern’s Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (MCAOM),

Also at the event, seven scholarships were awarded. Erin Fraser received a $250 Alumni Association Scholarship; Erin Marquardt and Hilary Patzer each received a $500 Diane Diegel Scholarship; Jolene Habeck and Chiou-farn Huang each received $250 Healy Family Memorial Scholarships; Libby Weibel received a $500 Healy Family Memorial Scholarship; and Marcia Swanson received a $500 Stewards of MCAOM Scholarship.

Northwestern Health Sciences University offers a wide array of choices in natural health care education including chiropractic, Oriental medicine, acupuncture, therapeutic massage and human biology. The University has nearly 900 students on a 25-acre campus in Bloomington, Minnesota.