1-5 October 2009 Sydney Convetion Centre

Dr Helene M Langevin received an MD degree from McGill University in 1978. She did a post doctoral research fellowship in Neurochemistry at the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge, England, residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

She studied acupuncture at the Tristate Institute of Acupuncture and the Worsley College of Classical Chinese Acupuncture. She currently is an Associate Professor of Neurology, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and is the Principal Investigator of two NIH-funded studies investigating acupuncture, connective tissue and low back pain.  Dr Langevin’s research focuses on connective tissue mechanical signal transduction as a mechanism common to acupuncture, manual and movement-based therapies.  Her previous studies in humans and animal models have shown that mechanical tissue stimulation during both tissue stretch and acupuncture causes dynamic cellular responses in connective tissue.  She is currently investigating how these tissue responses are affected by chronic conditions such as low back pain.