Health & Wellness

Our Vision

Medical schools emphasize diagnosis, technology, and scientific treatments of the body. Rarely do medical schools offer courses that integrate the mind and body, spirituality and medicine, or nutrition and prevention. The Simms/Mann Institute believes that medicine is not enough.

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Simms/Mann Family Foundation Chair in Systems Biology at City of Hope

The Simms/Mann Family Foundation partnered with City of Hope to establish the Simms/Mann Family Foundation Chair in Systems Biology, naming Jianjun Chen, Ph.D. as chair.

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Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology

The Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology provides integrative patient care for individuals and families touched by cancer. The Simms/Mann Center offers educational and support services that integrate psychological, nutritional, spiritual, and complementary approaches to healing.

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Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center at Venice Family Clinic

Venice Family Clinic's Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center is the nation's first health, wellness, and integrative medicine program offered at a free clinic.The Center’s programs provide a wide range of evidence-based integrated services which focus on the whole person and the whole family.

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

The Simms/Mann Family Foundation partnered with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to develop the Simms/Mann Family Foundation Playground and funded an endowed chair for the director of the Developmental Neurogenetics program within CHLA’s Institute for the Developing Mind.

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Endowed Chairs

John Glaspy, MD, MPH holds the Simms/Mann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Integrative Oncology at UCLA and is the Medical Director of the Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology. Margo B. Minissian, PhD, ACNP is the Simms/Mann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Nurse Education, Innovation, and Research at Cedars-Sinai.

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Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine

The Simms/Mann Family Foundation supports AIHM by awarding scholarships to professionals participating in the Interprofessional Fellowship Program. This two-year fellowship program immerses professionals into an innovative, interactive, and clinically focused curriculum that lays the foundation for integrated care while teaching professionals to work effectively within an interprofessional team.

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Spirituality and Medicine Conference

The Simms/Mann Institute, in partnership with UCLA, brought together spiritual leaders, medical oncologists, social workers, and nurses for a first of its kind conference to share knowledge, ideas, and treatment plans.

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Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine

The Foundation supports the endeavors of AIHM in providing innovative education, training, leadership, interprofessional collaboration, research, and advocacy that embraces all global healing traditions, to promote the creation of health and the delivery of evidence-informed comprehensive, affordable, sustainable person-centered care.

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The Institute for Integrative Health

The Foundation supports the Institute for Integrative Health’s commitment to advancing science with expanded research methods and to exploring new models of health, and discovering fresh ways to engage the public in its pursuit of health.

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Simms/Mann Integrative Medicine Lecture Series at MD Anderson

The Foundation supported the creation of the Simms/Mann Integrative Medicine Program Lecture Series at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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Yale Cancer Center

The Simms/Mann Family Foundation have been longtime supporters of the research endeavors at Yale Cancer Center.

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Harvard Medical School – Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

The Foundation supports Harvard Medical School’s Eye and Ear Infirmary Fellowships in Neurotology, along with ENT specialist Dr. Raul Metson.

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Bravewell Collaborative

The Foundation is a past supporter of the Bravewell Collaborative, a community of leading philanthropists who work together to transform our health care system through the advancement of integrative medicine.

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Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund

The Foundation supports JDRF and their innovative type 1 diabetes research.

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Cedars-Sinai

The Foundation supports Cedars-Sinai and Cedars' integrative medicine initiative.

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Jules Stein Eye Institute

The Foundation supports Dr. Caprioli’s innovative research on glaucoma at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute.

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The Arnold P. Gold Foundation

The Foundation supports The Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s mission of Humanism in Medicine.

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Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

The Foundation supported the creation of the Tyler A. Dykes Robotics Center at the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center.

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