Innovations in Healthcare as a Result of COVID-19 with Devon Christie

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Join me, Marc Caron as I speak with Dr. Devon Christie, a family physician with a focused practice in Multidisciplinary Pain Management, working here in Vancouver at CHANGEpain Clinic.  Devon is also a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, with training in Relational Somatic Therapy for trauma resolution.

Listen in as we talk about Innovations in Healhcare that have been a result of COVID-19, that have enabled CHANGEpain to deliver a full curriculum virtual group medical visits – covered under provincial healthcare –  on a range of topics that are designed to empower patients in self-care, healing and prevention – such as yoga, mindfulness, healing after trauma

 

1) Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

– what is it? what is it good for / how do people benefit?

– why it is so fundamentally important that we learn and practice mindfulness in our present times, now more than ever

2) Healing After Trauma

– what is it? what is it good for / how do people benefit?

– how some patient’s experiences anecdotally with the program being creating thus far

– explain why this in particular is such a needed innovation in our healthcare system (psychotherapy isn’t covered, epidemic levels of trauma)

3) Kundalini Yoga

– yoga has a lot of evidence in peer reviewed literature for numerous health benefits

– Devon’s history as a yoga teacher, and her experience with how kundalini yoga has helped in her own recovery (from brain injury, chronic back pain, PTSD) which is why she was inspired to do her teacher training.

– Devon has always dreamed of offering yoga to my patients, as an MD.

 

Speaking Appearances

Devon Will also be speaking at the Catalyst 2020 Psychedelic Research Conference at the end of the month, and the Psychedelic Psychotherapy forum in October (both virtual / online conferences). Here are the links to the conferences:

https://catalystcalgary.com

https://www.psychedelicpsychotherapy.ca

and her own retreat …

Whole Human Health Retreat

Hollyhock in October (as long as it still runs…Hollyhock hasn’t made a final decision yet about fall programming still happening)

https://hollyhock.ca/p/3215/whole-human-health-functional-medicine-2-0/

About Devon

Devon Christie MD, CCFP, RTC

Family Medicine Physician with special interest in Pain Management

UBC Clinical Instructor

Dr. Christie is a family physician practicing in chronic pain, with primary interests in myofascial release (myoActivation, TPI) as well as prolotherapy, BOTOX for chronic headache, and other procedures.

Her extensive training also includes certification in Functional Medicine (IFM), and she is a Certified Teacher of MBSR (UC San Diego Mindfulness Based Professional Training Institute) and Interpersonal Mindfulness (U Mass Medical School/Metta Programs). She is also a Certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga (KRI).

Her unique and diverse clinical background, combined with rich personal experience, enables Devon to deeply understand and synthesize healing across disciplines.

She is also trained to deliver both MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD (MAPS USA) and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, in a research setting. She is a recognized speaker and expert on the potential for incorporating psychedelic-assisted therapies in an improved health care model for the future

She also has had first hand experience recovering from chronic pain, traumatic brain injury and PTSD.

She enjoys singing, skiing, hiking, rollerblading, paddleboarding and many of the other wonderful recreation pursuits our wonderful city has to offer!