PROGRAM

38th International Acupuncture Congress
Milan, January 26-27, 2019

Participation at the conference venue, or remotely via streaming.
Questions and answers in real time between the speakers and the audience, including participants remotely from all over the world.
Official languages of the congress: Italian and English, with simultaneous translations. Speeches in Chinese language with consecutive translation.

FIRST DAY
8.00	Registration of participants
9.00	Opening of the Congress. 1968 – 2018: SIA celebrates 50 years
	Welcome speeches Roberto Gatto – President S.I.A. – President So Wen Hedi Luxenburger – President of International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related Techniques Baoyan Liu President of World Federation of Acupuncture‐Moxibustion Societies Roberto Carlo Rossi ‐ President OMCeOMi Zhu Gui – Deputy Director-General, General Office, National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of P. R. China Umberto Solimene Director World Health Organization ( WHO) Coll.Center for Traditional, Complementary & Integrative Medicine State University of Milan
SESSION ONE – Carlo Di Stanislao – Emilio Minelli chairs
9.30	H. Luxenburger – The legal status of Acupuncture in Europe
10.00	S. Birch – Research data on Acupuncture and pain
10.30	H. Liertzer – Sonographic studies of Acupuncture points /trigger points. Practical proceedings
11.00	Break
SESSION TWO – Roberto Gatto – Konstantina Theodoratou chairs
11.30	J. Ciccone – Modern applications for Acupuncture in musculoskeletal and post-operative pain
12.00	Peijing Rong – Mechanism underlying electroacupuncture on auricular region for depression combined with chronic somatic pain
12.30	V. Sacchini – Integrative medicine in routine clinical-surgery practice. The experience of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
13.00	Break
SESSION THREE – Paolo Evangelista – Franco Cracolici chairs
14.00	A. Cecconi – Pain control after breast cancer surgery and sentinel lymph-node biopsy: acupuncture treatment vs. standard-of-care
14.20	B. Basta – Electroacupuncture for postoperative pain control after mastectomy and plastic reconstruction
14.40	R. Monzani – Intraoperative electroacupuncture analgesia
15.00	I. Simma – Craniomandibular disorders: muscular diagnostics and acupuncture – a retrospective analysis of 887 treatments
15.30	P. Piehler – Neural therapy as a powerful partner of acupuncture in the treatment of pain
16.00	Break
SESSION FOUR– Hedi Luxenburger – Secondo Scarsella chairs
16.30	K. Theodoratou – Addictions, pain and acupuncture: the connection between them
17.00	G. Deng – How to integrate acupuncture in a major Western cancer center: hitting the key points
17.30	M. Vinogradoff – Many knees : one point
18.00	F. Liang – Evidence-based evaluation of the selection principles of acupuncture treatment for pain
21.00	Gala Dinner

SECOND DAY
9.00	Opening
SESSION FIVE– Marco Maiola – Gianguido Marchi chairs
9.00	J. Maier – Acupuncture and pain: a challenge for western medicine
9.30	I. Oztekin – The Manangement of postoperative pain with acupuncture
10.00	F. Wang – Acupuncture treatment of lateral elbow pain
11.00	Break
SESSION SIX – Michele Tedeschi – Carlo Maria Giovanardi chairs
11.30	G. Deng – An ancient therapy for a current problem: acupuncture reduces risk of chronic opioid use after cancer treatment – a randomized controlled trial
12.00	Liu Baoyan – Acupuncture for pain in China’s TCM hospitals
13.00	Break
SESSION SEVEN – Italo Sabelli – Janet Maier chairs
14.00	P. Sautreuil – Physical medicine and neuro-acupuncture
14.30	S. Birch – Clinical experience in the treatment of pain
15.00	S. Gao – One needle therapy for common pain disorders
16.00	Break
SESSION EIGHT – Alberto Lomuscio – Emilio MInelli chairs
16.30	C. M. Giovanardi – Low back pain and Acupuncture: evidence based medicine
17.00	G. Di Concetto, A. Criscuolo – Headache – analysis of international trials and personal experience
17.30	M. Maiola, A. Lomuscio, F. Intelligente – Fibromyalgia – analysis of scientific literature and personal experiences
17.50	S. Scarsella – Some modern and traditional applications for acupuncture in oral and maxillofacial surgery pain
18.10	I. Sabelli – Psychic pain
18.30	Past‐president SIA: Emilio Minelli, Carlo Distanislao, Paolo Evangelista Poster Session. Award Ceremony 1^st Prize Gianpaolo Garavaglia e Terenzio Cantoni 2^nd Prize Yvonne Mollard Brusini 3^rd Prize Riccardo Morandotti
18.50	Continuing medical education questionnaire – Participants satisfaction survey
19.00	Congress closing

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