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Cross-Cutting
Cross-Cutting
Featured Session
Timothy Caulfield, BSc, LLB, LLM
Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Jennifer Gunter, MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM, ABPMR
Obstetrician/Gynecologist & pelvic pain specialist
Wielding the Lasso of Truth
San Francisco, California
Ford Vox, MD, FAAPMR, ABPMR
Medical Director, Disorders of Consciousness; Program Chair, Medical Ethics Committee
Shepherd Center
Atlanta, Georgia
In SCAMABILITATION, three prominent critics of pseudoscience team up to entertain and educate the ACRM 2019 audience with a far-reaching foray into the new media-charged landscape of medicine, where, for millions of Americans, Gwyneth Paltrow’s pronouncements on wellness hold more legitimacy than national medical societies. Timothy Caulfield is a law professor, author, and host of Netflix’s A User’s Guide to Cheating Death. The Globe and Mail dubbed him the “Canadian nemesis of pseudoscience.” Jennifer Gunter is a quadruple board certified Obstetrician Gynecologist whose blog Wielding the Lasso of Truth has shot her to national prominence and a recurring column in the New York Times. Ford Vox is a brain injury physiatrist at the Shepherd Center who practices medical journalism as a side career, often focusing on the cracks in medical science communication.