2020 Heartland Conference

2020 Heartland Conference

“Exploring the Gut-Brain Connection and Bowen theory”
Friday, March 27, 2020
Metropolitan Community College – Maple Woods
Campus Center 110

The 2020 Heartland Conference guest speakers are:  Michael Bailey, PhD and Michael Kerr, MD

The annual Heartland Conference is open to the public and is dedicated to science and theory. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.

Michael Bailey, PhD – is a Principal Investigator in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Ohio State University. Dr. Bailey has nearly 20 years of experience studying bidirectional interactions between host physiology and the microbes that naturally reside within the gastrointestinal tract (i.e., the gut microbiota). Dr. Bailey’s studies were among the first to show that stressful situations can lead to changes in the composition of the gut microbiota and his current studies are now focused on the impact that changes to gut microbiota composition have on the functioning of the immune system and on nervous system activity.
To learn more about Dr. Bailey’s research, please visit his website.

Michael E. Kerr, MD, is a family psychiatrist. He trained under and worked with Murray Bowen for more than twenty years, and then succeeded Dr. Bowen as Director of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family (originally the Georgetown University Family Center) upon Dr. Bowen’s death in 1990. Dr. Kerr has been Emeritus Director of the Bowen Center since January 2011, is Director of the Bowen Theory Academy, and is now living in Maine. He continues a clinical practice, presents at conferences around the country, and writes about Bowen theory and its applications. He is co-author of Family Evaluation (with Murray Bowen) published in 1988 (excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly in September 1988). His newest book is Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families. To review some of Dr. Kerr’s extensive work, please visit his web site blog.

Early Bird price good until March 13, 2020 – $160.
After March 13, 2020 – $175

Students 1/2 price – $80

Group rates available for groups of 3 within the same organization – $150 per person

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Past speakers have included Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Laura Brooks, LSCSW, Larry Carver, MD, Dalton Conley, PhD, Mark Flinn, PhD, Jeff French, PhD, Louise Hawkley, PhD, Jim Edd Jones, PhD, Kathleen B. Kerr, MSN, MA, CNS, Michael E. Kerr, MD, George Kulik, DVM, PhD, Robert Noone, PhD, Margaret Otto, LSCSW, Daniel Papero, PhD, Deloras Pemberton, PhD, Steven Platek, PhD, Charles Raison, MD, Clay Routledge, PhD, Steven Sloman, PhD and Mark Vincent, MD, MRCP (UK), FRCPC.