Event Description: The American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), The Faculty of Homeopathy (the pre-eminent homeopathic organization in the U.K.), and the prestigious International Research Group on Very Low Dose and High Dilution Effects host the first large-scale homeopathic research conference in the U.S. – the XXXVI GIRI Meeting – on October 20-22 titled “Groundbreaking Science: Homeopathy and the Future of Global Health.” The event will be held at UConn Health. UConn Health is a major medical school and a teaching hospital in Connecticut. The event will feature leading research scientists and physicians from around the world presenting the latest basic science, pre-clinical and clinical research in homeopathy.
The event is open to the public, is virtual and in-person, and if you are unable to attend on the days it takes place, it will be recorded for later viewing by all conference registrants.
Instructions for Virtual Attendees: All virtual attendees will receive an email the week before the conference with log-in information for attending the conference remotely.
How to Submit an Abstract: If you have an interest in submitting an abstract for consideration by the conference, please use this link and follow the instructions on the right side of the page: https://giri-society.org/next-meeting/.
Hotels: The reserved hotel room blocks and discounts for the conference will be released after September 20, 2023. While you will still be able to reserve a room after that date – it will be at the regular price.
There are three hotels to choose from: the Farmington Inn, Homewood Suites by Hilton, and the Avon Old Farms Hotel. A room block has been reserved at each. Homewood Suites is less than .25 miles from UConn Health, and they will be providing twice daily (AM and PM) shuttle service to UConn Health and back to the hotel. The Farmington Inn is ~0.5 miles from the conference. Avon Old Farms Hotel is ~1.5 miles from the event. There is no shuttle service from the Farmington Inn or Avon Old Farms Hotel. A special room rate of $149 (plus tax) per night is available to conference attendees at the Farmington Inn and Avon Old Farms Hotel. The cost at Homewood Suites is $154 per night (plus tax).
Event Sponsored by:
Samuel Hahnemann Platinum Sponsors
Constantine Hering Gold Sponsors
Margaret Tyler Silver Sponsors
Conference Agenda |
||
|---|---|---|
| 20th October, Friday | ||
| 1:00pm EDT | Welcome | Carla Holandino, Gary Smyth, Alex Bekker |
| 1:30pm-2:00pm EDT | Introduction to Homeopathy and Global Health | Gary Smyth |
| 2:00pm-2:45pm EDT | The Art and the Science of Research in Homeopathy: a critical and historical perspective | Flavio Dantas |
| 2:45pm-3:30pm EDT | Fundamental Research in Homeopathy: Considerations and Recommendations | Alexander Tournier |
| 3:30pm-3:45pm EDT | Coffee break | |
| 3:45pm-4:30pm EDT | Strategies for Homeopathic Research: Significance of Basic Research Experiments | Raj K. Manchanda |
| 4:30pm-5:15pm EDT | Homeopathy and the Environment | Leoni Bonamin |
| 5:15pm-6:00pm EDT | Homeopathy and the Human Biome | Ronald Whitmont |
| 6:00pm-6:30pm EDT | Discussion | |
| 21st October, Saturday | ||
| 9.00am-10:00am EDT | Homeopathy and gene expression | Lopez-Carvallo, Paolo Bellavite |
| 10:00am-11:00am EDT | Round table: Agrohomeopathy | Stephan Baumgartner to moderate. Sydney Everhart Ph.D. (UConn Agriculture Dept), Leonardo Faedo, Fateme Mirzajani |
| 11:00am-11:15am EDT | Coffee break | |
| 11:15am-1:15pm EDT | The Role of Nanoparticle/Nanostructure in Homeopathic Medicines – Roundtable Discussion | Gary Smyth to moderate. Jayesh Bellare, Iris Bell, Alex Tournier, Steven Cartwright, Igor Jerman, Michel Van Wassenhoven |
| 1:15pm-2:00pm EDT | Lunch | |
| 2:00pm-3:20pm EDT | Basic Science Research | Presenters and abstracts |
| 3:20pm-4:20pm EDT | Physicochemical research | Presenters and abstracts |
| 4:40pm-5:30pm EDT | One Health Homeopathy and the environment and its importance to zoonosis control and biome preservation. | Presenters and abstracts |
| 5:30pm-7:15pm EDT | Clinical Research | Presenters and abstracts |
| 7:15pm-7:45pm EDT | General Discussion | |
| 22nd October, Sunday | ||
| 9:30am-10:45am EDT | Overview of Clinical Research in Homeopathy | Rachel Roberts |
| 10:45am-11:30am EDT | Homeopathy and Antibiotic resistance | Jennifer Jacobs |
| 11:30am-12:00pm EDT | Coffee Break | |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT | Translational Homeopathy and Global Implications | Lisa Amerine to moderate, Rachel Robert, Leoni Bonamin, Alex Tournier |
| 1:00pm-1:30pm EDT | Concluding section: awarding of prizes for the best poster talks, GIRI 2024, other announcements | Carla Holandino, Gary Smyth, Alex Bekker |
Event Hosted by:
Online registrations will close at 10:00 AM EDT on Thursday. We will be accepting walk-up registrations on-site all weekend.
Conferences like this one are expensive. Please consider making a donation to support the project. Donations can be made during checkout.
To make a donation to the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), please visit our donation page.
To make a donation to the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH), please visit our donation page.
American Institute of Homeopathy
c/o George Guess MD DHt
909 Summit View Lane
Charlottesville, VA 22903
LIST OF PRESENTATIONS – GIRI MEETING 2023
SESSION: CLINICAL RESEARCH 1
Saturday, October 21st, 2023
5:20pm – 7:00pm EDT
| Order | Presenting author | Title |
| Oral | Ubiratan Adler | Homeopathy for Major Depressive Disorder: protocol for N-of-1 studies (HOMDD-1 Studies) |
| Oral | Alastair Gray and Denise Straiges | Findings from clinical, historical, and educational research conducted at the HOHM Foundation office of research. |
| 1 | Leila Mourão | Complementary homeopathic therapy in the treatment of sleep bruxism. |
| 2 | Rosy de Nardi | Homeopathy in the treatment of temporomandibular disorders in COVID 19. |
15 minutes for questions and answers (Human clinics) | ||
| 3 | Alexandre Próspero | Telemedicine and homeopathy united for wellness and health in veterinary. |
| 4 | Surjit Singh Makker | Role of Homeopathy in Lumpy Skin Disease: Outcome of 37 Cases of Cows treated holistically with Homeopathy |
| 5 | Silvia Fernandes Alves | Homeopathic Treatment of snakebite in dog – case report |
| 6 | Maria Luiza | Baryta Carbonica homeopathic therapy for bronchopneumonia in a dog with megaesophagus |
| 7 | Gleyce Moreno Barbosa | Occurrence of mastitis before and after homeopathic treatment in dairy cattle, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 8 | Cideli Coelho | Giardia nosode 30cH in the treatment of a howler monkey (Alouatta guariba) with giardiasis in captivity in Brazil |
15 minutes for questions and answers (Veterinary clinics) | ||
LIST OF PRESENTATIONS – GIRI MEETING 2023
SESSION: ONE HEALTH
Saturday, October 21st, 2023
4:30pm – 5:15pm EDT
Order | Presenting author | Title |
Oral | Monica F. A. Souza (2 abstracts) | Recovery of fire-damaged “cerrado” area treated with homeopathic preparations in slow dispersion devices – a descriptive study Clinical observation of wild animals near the CRAS lake (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) submitted to homeopathic treatment by a slow dispersion device: a possible indication of environmental balance. |
Poster 1 | Nathalia Salles | Solvatochromic dyes as a tool for tracking homeopathy complex activity in water reservoirs of a spring park in Brazil. |
2 | Suham Nowrooz | Homeopathic potencies can regulate the growth and toxicity of Raphidiopsis raciborskii (cyanobacteria) and are traceable by solvatochromic dyes. |
3 | Annekathrin Ueker | Need for external replication trials in homeopathic basic research: presenting research on four duckweed test systems. |
After all video presentations in the main room, there will be a 15-minute Q&A (questions and answers) with the remote (online) presence of speakers.
LIST OF PRESENTATIONS – GIRI MEETING 2023
SESSION: PHYSICOCHEMICAL RESEARCH
Saturday, October 21st, 2023
3:10pm – 4:10pm EDT
Order | Presenting author | Title |
Oral | Steven Cartwright | Evidence from the use of a solvatochromic detection system indicates that water is an inert carrier of the homeopathic signal |
Poster 1 | Nirmal Sukul | A Cantharis potency acts on heat-exposed bovine serum albumin as revealed by FT-IR spectroscopy |
2 | Igor Jerman | Physical transfer of the UHD signal resulting from potentized dilution of interferon-gamma antibodies |
3 | Kurian Poruthukaren | An attempt to estimate the noises in Homeopathic Pathogenetic Trials by employing the Jaccard Similarity Index and Noise Index. |
4 | Michel Van Wassenhoven | Nature and Structure of NTA Traditional Homeopathically Manufactured Medicines |
5 | Sanjib Chattopadhyay | Existence of original drug molecules in ultra-high dilutions |
6 | Cassiana Santos de Oliveira Pignaton | Evaluating Pfeiffer Circular Chromatography as a Qualitative Methodology of Viscum album Homeopathic Mother Tinctures: A Multicentric Collaborative Project Between Brazil and Switzerland |
After all video presentations in the main room, there will be a 15-minute Q&A (questions and answers) with the remote (online) presence of speakers.
LIST OF PRESENTATIONS – GIRI MEETING 2023
SESSION: BASIC RESEARCH
Saturday, October 21st, 2023
2:00pm – 3:05pm EDT
| Order | Presenting author | Title |
| Oral | Francisco Eizayaga | The usefulness of scientific research in Homeopathy |
Posters 1 | Elizabeth Perez | Homeopathic dilutions of Phytolacca decandra |
| 2 | Priscila Bautuille | Treatment with Viscum album potencies induces reduction of MCP- 1 and ROs levels in murine melanoma cells |
| 3 | Thaís Silva | Effects of homeopathic preparations of Viscum album on in vivo murine melanoma model |
| 4 | Rodrigo Duarte | Biological effects of Viscum album mother tinctures and dynamizations in kidney proximal tubule cells: an in vitro study |
| 5 | Akshaya Tharankini | Immunomodulatory Effect of Arsenicum album on Zebrafish Embryos |
| 6 | Gleyce Moreno Barbosa | In vitro evaluation of Sporothrix brasiliensis biotherapic: complete results. |
| 7 | Olga B. Zhdanova | Comparative study of the action of dynamized forms of melatonin and lissotriton |
After all video presentations in the main room, there will be a 15-minute Q&A (questions and answers) with the remote (online) presence of speakers.
