Whole Person Care for Veterans
Monday, June 22, 2026
9:00AM - 10:30AM PDT
Drawing on the most rigorous scientific evidence available, Dr. Jonas will show that by adding some simple questions and tools to your practice, you can quickly move toward more patient-centered, integrative healthcare for veterans and enhance your patients healing.
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 1.5 (Applied through NASW Oregon)
Cost: Free to RVP Volunteers and partnering clinics who are listed in our directory and who have an active MOU with RVP. We also welcome our OR/WA Vet Center and VA staff to join for free. All other community providers, please pay $29 (or apply to become a RVP volunteer provider).
Who Should Attend:
This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers.
What You Will Learn:
We now know that most of health – possibly up to 80% – comes from factors outside of what we usually do in the clinic or hospital. The primary determinants of health involve social, environmental, lifestyle and complementary medicine factors that few clinicians learn to deliver. How can we integrate these health determinants into our routine practice to deliver whole person care for veterans? In this talk, I will describe a simple, systematic approach called a HOPE (Healing Oriented Practices and Environments) visit, that helps patients tap into their inherent healing capacity. Drawing on the most rigorous scientific evidence available, I will show that by adding some simple questions and tools to your practice, you can quickly move toward more patient-centered, integrative healthcare for veterans and enhance your patients healing for any chronic disease.
Learning Objectives:
- To define the place of whole person health care and illustrate its rationale and science.
- To illustrate a model of the whole person care that puts the person at the center of care.
- Learn what makes care for veterans unique.
- Examine whole person options for care specifically for veterans and caregivers.
CE Faculty
Wayne Jonas, MD, is a board-certified, practicing family physician, an expert in integrative health and whole person care delivery, and a widely published scientific investigator. Additionally, Dr. Jonas is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. From 2001-2016, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Samueli Institute, a non-profit medical research organization supporting the scientific investigation of healing processes in the areas of stress, pain and resilience.
Dr. Jonas wrote the best-selling book How Healing Works, laying out a revolutionary new way to approach injury, illness, and wellness. He also co-authored a second book with Alyssa McManamon, MD, Healing and Cancer: A Guide to Whole Person Cancer Care. This book is meant to be actively used by teams caring for people with cancer and by caregivers and patients to enhance healing, health, and wellbeing.
Dr. Jonas was the Director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health from 1995-1999, and prior to that served as the Director of the Medical Research Fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature Medicine, the Journal of Family Practice, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Lancet. Dr. Jonas received the 2015 Pioneer Award from the Integrative Healthcare Symposium, the 2007 America’s Top Family Doctors Award, the 2003 Pioneer Award from the American Holistic Medical Association, the 2002 Physician Recognition Award of the American Medical Association, and the 2002 Meritorious Activity Prize from the International Society of Life Information Science in Chiba, Japan.
Dr. Jonas is currently the President of Healing Works Foundation, a not for profit organization dedicated to the integration of healing and curing in routine health care delivery.
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