Below are examples of recent grant recipients and photographs of them focusing on their Healing Touch work:
| Department of Neurology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine is conducting a research project aimed at the evaluation of the protective and healing effect of Healing Touch against heat stress using a nerve cell culture model. |
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Pictured, Dr. Charles Tegeler and Dr. Rong Tang.
Printed with permission. |
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The Light Center designed an outreach/service program to offer Healing Touch training to caregivers in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and orphan crisis in Riviersonderend, outside of Cape Town, South Africa. GoGos (Grandmothers) and other caregivers lost their daughters to the pandemic and are now rearing their grandchildren. |
Volunteers from The Light Center using Healing Touch to serve in the AIDS orphan crisis in South Africa.
Printed with permission from Robin Goff. |
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Since 1999, The Swan Center of the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person (AIWP) instructors and practitioners have been working and teaching at Martuvam Healing Forest, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India. Their ongoing, outreach program is designed as a humanitarian, cross-cultural Healing Touch training program for an impoverished population in India and Sri Lanka. |
Printed with permission from Martha Rather. |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER reports their pilot study is providing valuable information and experience regarding the feasibility of delivering HT in the busy Infusion Treatment Area during chemotherapy for women with breast cancer. They are receiving
enthusiastic support from physicians and nursing staff. |
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Pictured are patient, Joanne H. and Kathy Turner, RNC, NP, CHTP. Printed with permission. |
