A Personal Message from Theodore (Ted) J. Cole, DO, NMD, Ohio, USA Crowded rooms, same old hotels, boring lectures. Are you ready for the experience of a lifetime? Carolyn Winsor-Sturm and Occidental Institute Research Foundation announce their 39th Biological Medicine Tour to Germany. Carolyn and her staff have produced the longest running and best tour of its kind in existence. Carolyn is an insider of the German medical scene, and personally knows all of the major researchers and practitioners. She has built these relationships over years, and is able [...]

Welcome to the 38th Biological Medicine Tour to Germany A Personal Diary of our Exclusive Program for 2011 Research Associates Sponsored by: Occidental Institute Research Foundation Penticton, British Columbia Canada Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Germany Wednesday, 30 November 2011 Attn:  Everyone who missed joining us in Frankfurt for our Germany Tour #38 A big hello to our OIRF members, colleagues and friends . . . Those of you who were unable to join us for this most recent tour program, really missed a good one! The size of the [...]

Saint Louis to Baden Baden, Germany via OIRF, Canada If you are interested in good German beer, wine and/or German Biological Medicine, you may want to consider joining the Occidental Institute Research Foundation (OIRF) from Canada. The Institute was founded in 1972 by Dr. Walter Sturm and is now managed by his widow Carolyn Winsor-Sturm. I have been a member of the OIRF for the last 15 years and the organization has been a very important connection for me to learn German Biological Medicine. OIRF sponsors an annual medical [...]

Welcome to the 37th Biological Medicine Tour to Germany An exclusive program for 2010 Research Associates Sponsored by: Occidental Institute Research Foundation (OIRF) Penticton, British Columbia Canada Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Germany Above is a representation of the cover page of the 20-page final letter sent out to everyone who joined us October 30, 2010 in Frankfurt for our Germany Tour #37. Here are some excerpts from that letter (and some pictures) to give you a chance to share our journey, our adventure and our incredible learning experience. [I’ve [...]

Here is a brief outline of our Tour #35 schedule: Sunday (Nov. 2): Tour delegates met at our Munich airport hotel this evening for an informal welcome reception. Most North Americans had to leave on Saturday to get to Germany on Sunday, due to North Atlantic flight schedules and losing time zones. Because participants join us from all over the world, everyone made their own airline arrangements. Monday (Nov. 3): Our deluxe motor coach took us from Munich to Baden-Baden. In the afternoon a half [...]

OIRF Invited to Participate in Medicine Week, 2009 Recently Occidental Institute has been invited to organize and sponsor one full day of English language lectures during the 2009 Medicine Week Congress in Baden-Baden, Germany. This program would be integrated into the full Med-Week program and listed in the catalog. All who have followed (or participated in) the activities of our many Biological Medicine group tours to Germany will be familiar with the Medicine Week Congress. We have received a very positive response from most of the speakers we contacted [...]

20 December 2007 Dear Mrs. Winsor-Sturm, Already one more year has passed and the year 2007 comes to an end. In a review of the year’s events some special features were prominent from the perspective of the IMGEAV in the old year: The publication of the 2nd volume of the new EAV book, the integration of the IMGEAV into the umbrella organization of the “Society for Empirical Medicine” including the new admission of EAV into the Baden-Baden Medicine Week [Congress], and the turbulence arising around the Secretariat. Perhaps also [...]

A special chronological report on our 2007 “Medicine Week” Group tour to Germany SUNDAY (October 28th):  All of the tour participants met at our Frankfurt hotel this evening for an informal welcome reception. Many North Americans had to leave on Saturday to get to Germany today, due to North Atlantic flight schedules and losing time zones. Because delegates joined us from different countries, everyone made their own airline arrangements. This year we were a very small group for our 34th Tour program. There were only eight of us all [...]

A special chronological report on our 2006 “Medicine Week” Group tour to Germany SUNDAY (October 29th):  Most of the ten tour participants met at our Frankfurt hotel this evening for an informal welcome reception. Many North Americans had to leave on Saturday to get to Germany today, due to North Atlantic flight schedules and losing time zones. Because delegates joined us from different countries, everyone made their own airline arrangements. Although our limit was twenty-five participants, this tour was much smaller than we anticipated, as compared to previous tours [...]

“I call upon our aches and pains for assistance; for they are our friends, and give good counsel.” - Goethe (1749-1842) In November of 2003 I attended an OIRF tour that included a two-day seminar with Dr. Heinrich Kremer, MD. One of the many statements of Dr. Kremer’s that impacted me during his presentations was his realization that, after eight and a half years of doing research for pharmaceutical interests, “all autoimmune illnesses and cancers were caused by toxins.” Dr. Kremer further stated that the body’s number one priority [...]