January 8, 2013 Speaker: Rauni King – Co-Founder & Director, Programs & Planning, Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, La Jolla

Rauni King

Rauni KingRauni Prittinen King, RN, BSN, MIH, HNB-BC, CHTP/I
La Jolla, CA

Rauni Prittinen King is the Co-Founder and Director of Programs and Planning at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California.  She is the former Nurse Case Manager for the Scripps Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease.  Rauni has over 20 years of experience in critical care nursing.

Rauni is certified in Holistic Nursing and is aCertified Healing Touch practitioner and instructor. She has been coordinating Healing Touch workshops at Scripps Hospitals since 1993. Rauni teaches Healing Touch, designs Integrative and Holistic Medicine conferences for the public, physicians and other health care providers.

Rauni received a BSN cum laude from Arizona State University and a Master’s in Integrative Health from National University.  She also has a degree in Interior Design. She is certified in hypnotherapy, a member of the American Holistic Nurses Association and Healing Touch International. She provides holistic consultations, gives presentations and writes about Integrative Medicine, Lifestyle Change and Healing Environments in the USA, Canada and Europe. She teaches HT in Europe, primarily her native Finland, and most recently taught level one to 55 nursing students and their instructor at the Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre in India. The hospital has an affiliated College of Nursing, in which I have been doing charity work. Teaching in India was a most rewarding experience.

Rauni integrates complementary healing with traditional medicine and sees herself as a bridge in this process.

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