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On Dr. Schneider's tour there was enthusiasm for developing an integrative medical school and health center for students worldwide.
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by Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, The Review
6 February 2013
Discussions of collaboration on a medical school for integrative medicine recently took place in India Greece, and Nepal, as Robert Schneider, MD, FACC, dean of MUM's Maharishi College of Perfect Health, completed his first outing of a world tour to spread the knowledge of Maharishi Vedic Medicine.
Dr. Schneider's trip began with chairing a session at the World Ayurveda Congress in Bhopal on public health in India and the solutions offered by a comprehensive view of Ayurveda.
During the session, he presented on Maharishi Ayurveda, explaining the three areas of this approach to health:
1) the mind/body connection,
2) physiological approaches such as herbs, diet, purification procedures, and lifestyle, and
3) environmental approaches such as Maharishi Vedic architecture and Maharishi Vedic astrology.
"The second area was the most familiar to the hundreds of Ayurvedic doctors in attendance," Dr. Schneider said. "I think my presentation expanded their boundaries about what Ayurvedic medicine really is—beyond herbs to the inner and outer universes."
Dr. Schneider was invited to the Congress to bring a modern, scientific, holistic perspective. He is recognized for his groundbreaking medical research on the Transcendental Meditation technique and Maharishi Ayurveda, and he included an overview as part of his presentation.
Next, in Delhi he presented a graduate and faculty seminar at Apeejay University on the role of Maharishi Vedic Medicine and its verification by modern science.
During the Congress, doctors from Nepal who attended Dr. Schneider's presentation invited him to Nepal. He traveled to Tribhuvan University, where he spoke to several hundred students, faculty, and deans from the Ayurveda and the modern medicine colleges.
The presentation led to a discussion of partnering for a college of integrative medicine and hospital in Nepal that would have a global student body and bring together the best of science-based natural medicine and modern medicine.
The next stop was the University of Athens medical school, where he was a visiting professor for a graduate program in stress management. Again there was enthusiasm for developing an integrative medical school and health center for students worldwide.
About his world tour, Dr. Schneider said, "It's time to bring our University's knowledge to the rest of the world."
He plans to continue the tour to inspire and organize the centers of decision-making, education, and policy in health care in every continent.
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