Our Science in the City program supports our medical communities with continuing medical education (CME/CEU’s). It is an enduring online educational platform to help Medical professionals with the most thought provoking, natural & efficacious medicines on the planet.
ACCREDITATION & EDUCATION
Science in the City’s curriculum has an extensive learning focus on hemp-CBD, medical cannabis, and cannabinoid pharma market, in that it was developed with the objective independence and integrity required for Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)-accredited education of physicians and nurses.
CME Cannabis Therapeutics for Health Care Providers
Science in the City has developed the comprehensive curriculum which, upon successful completion, confers up to a total of 4. Licensed nurses and pharmacists may apply to their boards for recognition of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
meet the educators
All of our instructors are highly qualified professionals, widely acknowledged in their field.
Dr. Junella Chin, DO
For over a decade Dr. Chin practiced medicine in California, the first US state to legalize medical cannabis in 1996. In California her integrative family clinic focused on children with intractable epilepsy, cancer and autism. She has seen firsthand just how much medical cannabis can benefit patients. She returned to her native New York in 2014, where she is currently treating both children and adults.
Dr. Chin is also a chronic pain survivor. As an athlete in college she injured her back with multiple spinal disc herniations and a spondylolisthesis. Doctors suggested opiate pain medications, steroids, epidurals, and ultimately surgery to fuse the spine. As a result of this experience, Dr. Chin has devoted her medical career in finding effective, integrative and holistic approaches to patient care.
Many of the meritorious certificates listed on Dr. Chin’s resume demonstrate that she is more than a skilled physician. She is a healer in the true sense of the word, dedicated to thinking beyond the limitations of standard allopathic medicine. She assumed a research position at Columbia University, Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Women’s Research in New York. She also spent several years at Harvard, studying the effects of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine on uterine fibroids.
Dr. Chin’s ability to forge caring relationships with patients can be traced back to her early decision to treat children in impoverished areas. She has worked in underserved communities abroad: Mexico, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Korea and China. She has also served on the board of advisors for Hollywood HEART, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving at risk teens with HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Chin is a frequent keynote speaker on the science and medicine of cannabis and has spoken at hospitals, conferences and events all over the world.
Dr. Godfrey Pearlson
Dr. Pearlson is currently founding director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center (www.NRC-IOL.org) at the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital in Hartford CT and Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Yale University Medical School.
He is a member of the Board of Physicians that advises the state of Connecticut on which conditions are appropriate for treatment with medical marijuana. He is a member of the Research Society on Marijuana and chairs its neuroscience committee. He is currently examining effects of marijuana on vehicle driving abilities in virtual environments inside the MRI scanner. His book, Weed Science, Cannabis Controversies and Challenges (Academic Press) was published in 2020.
Dr. Pearlson is an National Institute of Mental Health MERIT awardee and currently holds RO1 grants from NIAAA, NIDA, NIDDK and NHTSA. He has been awarded a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, the Ziskind-Sommerfeld Research Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Albert M. Biele Lectureship from Jefferson Medical College, a Michael Visiting Professorship from the Weizmann Institute, the Dean award in schizophrenia research from the American College of Psychiatrists, the annual Mentorship Award from the American Psychiatric Association and is a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars for distinguished alumni.
He is also co-founder of the annual BrainDance Competition, which is open to high school and college students across New England. BrainDance encourages students to gain knowledge about psychiatric diseases and to develop a more tolerant and realistic perspective toward people with severe psychiatric problems.
Dr. Pearlson is a certified master gardener in the state of Connecticut.
Dr. Swathi Varanasi, PharmD, Integrative Health & Medical Cannabis Pharmacist
What stands between the therapeutic potential of cannabis and its widespread use is education. I am passionate about educating practitioners, students and patients on the intricacies of the endocannabinoid system and the power of food as medicine. As a healthcare disrupter, I look for opportunities to break barriers and challenge my western-trained colleagues to think beyond the conventional scope of their practice. I am a part of the movement to incorporate natural medicines core coursework into healthcare professional curricula across the country and the world. We are often scared of what we do not understand, so let’s change that.
Joe Dolce, MA
