Tuesday, 12 October 2010 To ensure that future announcements are delivered to your inbox (not your bulk folder), please add chc@chc.ucsf.edu to your address News and Announcements INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE HONORS MEMBERS NANCY E. ADLER AND DAVID R. CHALLONER F OUTSTANDING SERVICE Seminars and Lectures RWJF HSS PROGRAM ~ FALL SEMINAR SERIES Special Joint session with Health Policy Scholars: Ethical Considerations in Health Care Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Bioethics Joint Medical Program, UCB/UCSF (SCHOLARS ONLY) When Tue Oct 12 2pm – 4pm Pacific Time Where UCB, University Hall Room 590L (map) UCSF-UC Hastings Consortium “Reasoning from Group Data to Individual Decision-making” Our next UCSF-UC Hastings Consortium meeting is Tuesday, October 12th from 3:00 to 4:30pm. Location: UCSF Laurel Heights, Room 376 RSVP: Please RSVP to hoopers@uchastings.edu if you plan to attend. As always, our meetings and events are open to the public, and we encourage you to forwar agenda to anyone who may be interested. We hope to see you there! Sarah M. Hooper Assistant Director of Programs UCSF-UC Hastings Consortium on| Law, Science & Health Policy 200 McAllister Street, Fourth Floor San Francisco, California 94102 (415) 565-4831 hoopers@uchastings.edu www.ucsf-hastingsconsortium.org When Tue Oct 12 3pm – 4:30pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Laurel Heights, Room 376 (map) Cognitive Decline Symposium: An update from bench to bedside investigations Coming this fall, the Cognitive Decline Symposium brings clinicians and investigators together discuss the pathophysiology of cognitive decline and how factors such as surgery and anesth may affect this phenomenon. Visiting Professor Zhongcong Xie, Director of the Geriatric Anesthesia Unit, Massachusetts Gen Hospital and Harvard Medical School, joins several prominent UCSF clinicians and investigator discuss the pathophysiology of cognitive decline and how factors such as surgery and anesth may affect this phenomenon. Program information and registration is available at the Cognitive Decline Symposium wiki: http://aneswiki.ucsf.edu/groups/cognitivedeclinesymposium/ Should you have questions, Please call: Tula Gourdin at 415-476-6205 UCSF Department of Anesthesia Mail: 521 Parnassus Avenue, U368N, Box 0648 Location: U368N San Francisco, CA 94143-0648 P: 415-476-6205 F: 415-502-2224 gourdint@anesthesia.ucsf.edu When Wed Oct 13 12:30pm – 5pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Laurel Heights Room S1-24 Auditorium (map) RWJF HSS PROGRAM ~ FALL SEMINAR SERIES Epigenetics Session When Thu Oct 14 12pm – 1:30pm Pacific Time Where UCSF, Laurel Heights Campus Room 474 (map) Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 COAST Seminar Series TOPIC: Weight Science: Examining the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift Linda Bacon, PhD Nutrition Professor, City College of San Francisco Associate Nutritionist, University of California, Davis Author, Health at Every Size For updated seminar information, visit the COAST website: http://chc.ucsf.edu/coast/ To receive Seminar Announcements, send request to: COAST@chc.ucsf.edu When Fri Oct 15 12pm – 1:30pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Laurel Heights Campus, Conference Room 474 (map) Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Re-Pairing: Having deeper conversations after difficult times David Bullard, PhD Disappointments, arguments, fights, feeling misunderstood and distant from one another, gett giving the "silent treatment" - these dynamics are woven into our interactions with even the fa friends we love and care for the most as we experience the inevitable disappointments of relationships. A cancer diagnosis often agitates these challenges with the addition of stress, fe physical changes. This workshop will introduce specific ways to help couples and individuals "r and reconnect deeply after difficult times, and will include ample time for discussion. David Bullard, Ph.D., has been practicing individual psychotherapy and couples therapy in Sa Francisco for over 30 years. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Med Psychology (Psychiatry) at UCSF. No charge. Held at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, 1701 Divisadero street, Suite 15 register with the Cancer Resource Center at 415.885.3693. When Fri Oct 15 5:30pm – 7pm Pacific Time Where Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, 1701 Divisadero street, Suite 150 (map) UCSF Global Health Sciences COMPLEX HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY LEADERSHIP TRAINING UCSF Global Health Sciences is offering a full-day experiential learning program focused on developing skills in global health emergency, leadership, and teamwork and we need your he What: Two one-day trainings that will simulate a humanitarian crisis as an educational exercise Date: Saturday, October 16th and Sunday, October 17th, 2010 Time: 7:00AM - 8:00PM Location: Anthony Chabot Regional Park, Oakland, CA The Complex Humanitarian Emergency leadership Training will teach skills and concepts requ complex humanitarian emergencies based on real events along the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan bo We are looking for volunteers to provide hands-on assistance on both Saturday and Sunday, O 16th and 17th. Volunteers will be assigned roles and will help to confuse, ally, direct, and chall the student teams. Every effort is made to create a realistic environment for the participants. Volunteer Roles: Active Role-playing: There are a variety of roles to be filled including rebel fighters, Uzbekistan local community members, refugees and NGO aid workers Media: Please let us know if you have experience with the media/press, videotaping, or photo Food Crew Set-up/Clean-up Crew We would greatly appreciate your help as early as 7:00AM and as late as 8:00PM on both Sat and Sunday. Whether you are able to help with a morning shift, afternoon shift, or the entire d every bit is appreciated and no experience necessary! We are happy to have volunteers with a sense of fun and adventure! The training will be a fun and interactive time at a beautiful campground. Food will be provid it is free for volunteers. Don't miss this opportunity to participate in this unique experience! If yo questions or know someone who may be interested in volunteering, please contact Katia Chi at ChikasuyeK@globalhealth.ucsf.edu. REGISTER to be a volunteer at: http://intglobalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/education/che/volunteer-info.aspx Health Policy Seminars - sponsored by the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies - Fall 2 Inside Health Reform PANELISTS Andrew Bindman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF Mark Laret, Chief Executive Officer, UCSF Medical Center Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF Claire Brindis, DrPH, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, UCSF PRL-IHPS Director Claire Brindis moderates a panel with Andrew Bindman, Mark Laret and Dian Rittenhouse who take an "inside the sausage factory" look at the passage and implications of reform. TIME: 3:00 – 4:30 pm PLACE: HSW 302, UCSF Parnassus Avenue campus Please check the PRL-IHPS homepage (http://www.ihps.medschool.ucsf.edu/ ) for some mino updates to the descriptions of each week. When Mon Oct 18 3pm – 4:30pm Pacific Time Where PLACE: HSW 302, UCSF Parnassus Avenue campus (map) Postdoctoral Training in Research in Integrative Medicine UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine TRIM Seminar Margaret Chesney, PhD 1701 Divisadero St., Suite 150 T.R.I.M. program coordinator: Leslie Murchy 353-7753 murchyl@ocim.ucsf.edu When Tue Oct 19 12pm – 1:30pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine 1701 Divisadero St., Suite 150 (map Nutrition & Chemotherapy: Coping with side effects Greta Macaire, MA, RD, CSO In this seminar, you will learn tips to help minimize nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, & constipation. Y hear about how to gain/lose weight in a healthy manner, the importance of food safety durin cancer therapy, and supplements that may interact with your treatment. Caregivers welcom attend. Offered: Wednesday, September 8th, 12:00-1:30pm Tuesday, October 19th, 3:30-5:00pm Wednesday, November 3rd, 12:00-1:30pm No charge. Held at the UCSF Medical Center, 1600 Divisadero Street, 6th floor, room B-601. Registration required. Limited to 10 participants. Registration required. Please call 415.885.3693 When Tue Oct 19 3:30pm – 5pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Medical Center, 1600 Divisadero Street, 6th floor, room B-601 (map) Problem with viewing announcement? Send email To remove your name from our CHC Community Listserv email list, Send email Questions or comments? E-mail us at chc@chc.ucsf.edu or call 415-476-7408 CHC Listserv Announcement Archives For CHC Affiliated Programs: Submit event announcements at http://chc.ucsf.edu/eventsubmit.htm