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Alastair Gray has a PhD in Public Health. More specifically he is an expert in the field of Complementary Medicine education. Much of his research has a focus on technologies in the field of CM and learning technologies in the education of future practitioners. He teaches at and heads the academic, operations, and research at the Academy of Homeopathy Education. In addition, he holds various consulting roles: academic (College of Health and Homeopathy, NZ), educational (National Centre for Integrative Medicine, UK), as well as consulting to many organizations on homeopathic provings and e-learning world-wide. A regular seminar and conference presenter worldwide and having spent a decade in the higher education arena in Australia, he is the author of 23 books and numerous articles on primary research in natural medicine. Originally educated as an historian, he teaches the history of health, healing and medicine at schools, colleges and universities in multiple countries. Alastair has been in practice for more than 30 years.
In this presentation Alastair Gray describes the challenges and tensions experienced by the Practitioner Generated Research Network (PGRN) in its first three years of operation. In doing so he discusses what defines a PGRN and its overarching aims. He will guide learners through its mandate - a one stop shop for practice-based, patient-focused, practitioner-generated research that potentizes the profession of homeopathy and expands it into the larger scientific and integrative medical communities. Next Alastair will describe the activities and prospects of the PGRN. Alastair will then introduce findings from the first PGRN research initiative. In a pilot research piece called "Who is Coming to Homeopathy for Treatment in 2024" Alastair introduces the characteristics of users of homeopathy in the United States. The setting for the study is a student teaching tele-health facility. Using a sample of intake forms from the Academy of Homeopathy Education chronic clinical training facility, Alastair discusses the qualities, demographics, perspectives, perceptions, experiences of users of homeopathy. In terms of educational taxonomy, Alastair describes and explores a sample of this data set making this presentation suitable for advanced and professional development educational outcomes.
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