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Our Specialists/Practitioners
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| Director of Integrative Medicine
Marcia Rothwell, LMT
Marcia is a licensed massage therapist and former nurse, currently Hartford Hospital’s Integrative Medicine Program Director, and an instructor for the CCMT Medical Massage Program at the hospital. She is practitioner in multiple types of bodywork including Craniosacral Therapy and Lymph Drainage.
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Medical Director
Darrin D’Agostino, DO
Darrin’s specialties are in General Internal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. His areas of interest are Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Musculoskeletal Medicine. CLICK HERE for his credentials.
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Acupuncturist Program
Susan Bisbee-White, Coordinator
Susan is a licensed acupuncturist with a Masters in Chinese Medicine. In addition to treating Hartford Hospital patients, staff and the community, she has acted as HH clinical supervisor for the University of Bridgeport’s Acupuncture students. Susan specializes in anxiety, depression, women’s health issues, and pain management.
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Acupuncturists:
Carmen Ciarcia
Edwin Brown
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 Art for Healing Program
Diana Boehnert, MFA, Coordinator
Diana is Coordinator of the ART for Healing Program for Hartford Hospital’s Department of Integrative Medicine. She is an Expressive Arts Facilitator, an exhibiting artist with 14 years experience teaching at the university level, and 25 years teaching private art classes and curating art exhibits, has presented at various local and national conferences and, is a member of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.
Creativity Coaches
Art volunteers give of their time and themselves to give patients an Expressive Art experience that is therapeutic by helping reduce the stress and anxiety sometimes associated with illness and hospitalization.
 Back (L-R): Diana Boehnert, Volunteers Pam Graves and Annie Cagenello, Eileen Pelletier, Manager, Volunteer Services. Front (L-R): Volunteers Margot Callahan and Deb Peavey |
Diana trains art interns and volunteers and Co-cordinates the Creativity Coach Volunteer Program with Eileen Pelletier of Volunteer Services.
The Creativity Coaches provide free services for inpatients in Oncology, Rehab, Cancer Center and Dialysis (as the program expands, services will be offered in other areas of the hospital).
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Reiki Volunteer Program
Alice Moore, RN, RMT, Integrative Medicine, Co-Coordinator
Alice is a former ICU nurse/nurse manager, currently the coordinator for the Reiki Volunteer Program (providing Reiki sessions throughout the entire hospital), Integrative Medicine Program Development Manual, IM Website and Intranet Site, as well as the Nursing Validation for Touch Therapy. She also has a part time practice providing Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Craniosacral Therapy, Reconnective Healing, Quantum Touch, Tai Chi for Arthritis, Yoga, and Guided Imagery for enhancing the healing process as well as teaches all levels of Reiki training.
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Some of our 50 specially trained Reiki Volunteers pose with their Extraordinary Program Award from the American Society of Directors of Volunteer Services (ASDVS)
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Volunteer Services
Eileen Pelletier, Co-Coordinator
Eileen is one of two managers in the Department of Volunteer Services and oversees approximately 900 volunteers including the 50 Reiki Volunteers and 6 Creativity Coaches. In 2002, Hartford Hospital's Reiki Volunteer Program received the "Extraordinary Program Award" from the American Society of Directors of Volunteer Services. Eileen is also a Reiki Master Practitioner.
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Health Science Libraries / Integrative Medicine Collection
Kelly Taylor, Information Coordinator
Kelly is the Information Coordinator for Hartford Hospital’s Health Science Library, manages the library’s Consumer Health Information Services, and is an adjunct staff member of the Department of Integrative Medicine and Tai Chi instructor. Her work includes the development of specialized health and medical collections to meet the needs of staff, patients and health consumers as well as teaching consumers how to find quality health internet-based information.
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Reflexology/Therapeutic Touch
Ann Marie Blanco, Reflexologist
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Massage Therapy Program
Administrative Staff
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Debbie Hackett
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Ann Marie Blanco
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Sandra Stewart
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