Graduate Students, Post-doctoral fellows, and other Trainees
are invited to a two-day workshop:
Psycho-Biological Pathways:
A Workshop on Immunology and Neuro-endocrine Measurement
In Clinical and Behavioral Research
This workshop will provide an overview of common physiological measures used in social and behavioral research including immune system and endocrine system measures. It is geared toward social and behavioral scientists who plan to include physiological measures in future studies.
The workshop aims to 1) provide participants with an overview of each biological system; 2) assist participants in determining which physiological measures best address their research questions and how to incorporate these measures into their research programs; 3) familiarize participants with methods for collecting specimens/data correctly, including information on logistical challenges in collecting these data and how to address them; and 4) provide guidance about how to analyze and interpret data when it comes back from the lab.
May 5-6, 2009 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Center for Health and Community
UCSF Laurel Heights campus
3333 California Street, Conference Room 474
San Francisco, CA 94118
Cost: $100 (before 4/15/09) for UCSF Graduate students, Post-doctoral fellows, trainees
$150 (before 4/15/09) for non-UCSF Grad students, Post-docs, and other trainees
Registration fee includes lunch both days
Steve Cole, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Hematology-Oncology,
Department of Medicine, UCLA
Firdaus Dhabhar, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Stanford Medical School
Elissa Epel, PhD
Associate Professor, Department
of Psychiatry, Director of Research, Center for Obesity, Assessment & Treatment, UCSF
Frederick (Rick) Hecht, MD
Professor of Medicine Research Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, UCSF
Margaret Kemeny, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry Director, Graduate Academic Program in Psychology, UCSF
Judy Moskowitz, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Medicine, UCSF
Elizabeth Sinclair, PhD
Assistant Professor
Translational Technology Research /CFAR Core Immunology Lab Director, UCSF
Owen Wolkowitz, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF
On Thursday, April 23, 2009, Dr. Ekhard Ziegler will be visiting UCSF as this year’s Bramham Nutrition Lecturer.
Dr. Ziegler is Professor of Pediatrics and former Director of the Program in Human Nutrition and the Division of Nutrition in Pediatrics at the University of Iowa. He is renowned for his work in feeding, growth and metabolism of low birth weight newborns.
He is scheduled to give two talks:
Pediatric Grand Rounds 8-9am (reception follows)
LOCATION: Room N-217
TOPIC: Vitamin D and Iron in Breast Fed Infants
Research topic, 12-1pm (room available to 1:30pm)
LOCATION: Toland Hall
TOPIC: Human Milk in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Please join the
Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS Center),
the UK Science and Innovation Network,
and other co- sponsors, including
The UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy
The UCSF Center for Health and Community
The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Population Sciences Group
The UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies
The UCSF Institute for Human Genetics
and the UCSF QB3 Institute
for a special seminar:
“Using Genomics to Advance Medical Care”
Lord Naren Patel
Chair of the Inquiry Into Genomic Medicine
Science and Technology Committee, UK House of Lords
Lord Patel will provide an overview of the Committee’s findings and recommendations to the UK government as presented in its July 2009 “Genomic Medicine” report. The growing “direct-to-consumer” (DTC) test industry, regulation of genetic tests, and the gap in training provided to medical professionals will also be discussed. A Q&A session will directly follow Lord Patel’s talk.
Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:45AM (light lunch/refreshments), 12PM (talk) UCSF-Laurel Heights, Chancellor’s Room 3333 California St, San Francisco, 94118
Please RSVP to Christina Hosenfeld, TRANSPERS Center Program Manager, by Friday, September 4, 2009.
By appointment, Lord Patel is available to meet with individuals or small groups following the seminar.
Advancing the field of stress and coping through active exchanges among researchers, clinicians, and students.
We invite you to join us at this exciting conference which will honor the 30 year career of Susan Folkman, PhD, and her enormous contribution to the field of stress and coping. The conference will feature thought leaders and eminent scholars in the field of stress and coping.
8:00 am-6:00 pm
UCSF Laurel Heights Conference Center
3333 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
How to Register
To register, go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=H9XS231E3NOnW_2b39jVE5gg_3d_3d.
Note: Includes continental breakfast, lunch, and a cocktail reception at the end of the day. However, seating for the lunch is limited, so register early if you would like to join us for lunch.
Lodging If you are coming from out of town, there are a few hotels that are nearby that we suggest below. San Francisco is a fairly small, manageable city, however, so you could stay downtown and cab to the conference site. The Laurel Inn is right across the street (444 Presidio, 94115; 415-567-8467)
The Kabuki (1625 Post, 94115; 415.922.3200)
Hotel Drisco (2901 Pacific, 94115; 415.,346.2880)
Hotel Tomo (1800 Sutter, 94115; 415.921.4000)
Contact Information For questions, please contact Marcia Gutierrez at 415.353.9645 or gutierrezm@ocim.ucsf.edu
This conference has been generously funded by The American Psychological Association and the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
Sneak Preview Screening Wednesday, October 7, 2009 UCSF Laurel Heights Auditorium, S124 12:00-1:00pm Film Screening 1:00-2:00pm Q&A
Money-Driven Medicine
What's Wrong with America's Healthcare and How to Fix It
“Money-Driven Medicine is one of the strongest documentaries I have seen in years and could not be more timely. The more people who see and talk about it, the more likely we are to get serious and true health care reform.” - Bill Moyers
Money-Driven Medicine provides the only comprehensive, systemic look at the medical care industry industry on film. Produced by Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and based on Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book by the same name, Money-Driven Medicine dispels the sound-bite driven myths, charges and counter charges around what’s really driving the cost and quality of health care.
Followed by Q&A with the Author Moderated by Dr. Kevin Grumbach
Author Maggie Mahar, PhD
The film is based on Maggie Mahar's recent book, Money‐Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs so Much (Harper/Collins). She is the Health Care Fellow at the Century Foundation where she writes the widely followed Health Beat Blog (www.healthbeatblog.org). Before becoming a journalist, Mahar earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale where she then taught for seven years. After that, she became an investigative reporter for Time Inc., the New York Times, and Barron's, before writing "Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982‐1999."
Kevin Grumbach, MD
Kevin Grumbach, MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of Family and Community Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. He is the Director of the UCSF Center for California Health Workforce Studies, Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care, and Co-Director of the Community Engagement Program for the UCSF Clinical Translational Science Institute.
Co-sponsored at UCSF by the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Health & Community, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the Center on Social Disparities in Health
How Yoga Can Help Reduce Symptoms, Manage Illness, and Promote Healing
TKV Desikachar
World-renowned Yoga teacher and global authority on the therapeutic uses of Yoga
This presentation will address Yoga as a multi-dimensional holistic approach for reducing symptoms, managing illness, and promoting healing. Attendees will experience simple techniques taught by TKV Desikachar.
UCSF Psycho-oncology Speaker Series: Jimmie Holland MD
Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Contributions of Psycho-Oncology to Cancer Care and Research
Friday October 16, 2009 8-9:30am
(light breakfast starting at 7:30am)
Herbst Hall
Mt. Zion Campus UCSF
Please join us for this inaugural talk of the Psycho-oncology Speaker Series at UCSF.
About the Speaker: Jimmie C. Holland, M.D., is Attending Psychiatrist and holder of the Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Holland is recognized internationally as the founder of the subspecialty of psycho-oncology, as well as the founding president of both the International Psycho-oncology Society and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. Dr. Holland was senior editor of the first textbook in psycho-oncology, The Handbook of Psychooncology, and started the first international journal in the field, Psycho-Oncology. As a member of the Institute of Medicine, she served on the IOM Committee which issued the report in 2007, Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs. This report notes that sufficient evidence base exists for psychosocial interventions that quality cancer care today must integrate psychosocial needs in routine cancer care and guidelines. Dr. Holland has received numerous awards and honors over her lengthy career.
Stay tuned: Over the year, we will have additional quarterly presentations on the science and practice of addressing psycho-social needs of patients, survivors and family members coping with cancer and its aftermath. January 22, 2010: Wayne Bardwell, PhD (Director, Patient & Family Support Service, Moores UCSD Cancer Center; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD), & Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD (Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Gillin Sleep and Chronomedicine Research Center, UCSD):Sleep, Rhythms and Fatigue in Women with Breast Cancer
March 12, 2010: Paul Jacobsen, PhD (Chair, Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior, Moffitt Cancer Center; Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida)
For more information, contact Missy Buchanan: 353-7019
Registration not required
CE credits available for Nurses
Made possible through the generous support of the Mount Zion Health Fund
Preregistration is requested for the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center's annual symposium, Nov. 5, on "The Prevention of Cancer." The all-day event will take place in Byers Auditorium, Genentech Hall on the UCSF/Mission Bay campus, and will cover prevention topics including biomarker development, imaging, chemoprevention and screening trials, tobacco control, diet, physical exercise, cancer-prevention disparities, and the translation of prevention science into applications and policy.
Presenters will be Leslie Bernstein, PhD (City of Hope National Medical Center); Claire Brindis, DrPH (UCSF); June Chan, ScD (UCSF); Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH (Washington Univ.); Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH (UCSF); Steve Cummings, MD, FACP (UCSF); Peter Gann, MD, ScD (Univ. of Illinois); Pamela Goodwin, MD, MSc (Univ. of Toronto); Ellen Gritz, PhD (MD Anderson Cancer Center); Frank Meyskens, MD, FACP (UC-Irvine); Anthony Miller, MD (Univ. of Toronto); Rena Pasick, DrPH (UCSF); Frank Penedo, PhD (Univ. of Miami); and Martyn Smith, PhD (UC-Berkeley).
The UCSF • Mount Zion Center on Aging cordially invites you to attend
THE BENJAMIN LIEBERMAN MEMORIAL LECTURE “Ordinary Medicine: How We Are Shaping Longevity in an Aging Society”
presented by Sharon Kaufman, PhD
Professor in Residence, Medical Anthropology
UCSF Institute for Health & Aging
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Lecture at 4:00pm Reception to follow
University of California, San Francisco
Millberry Union Conference Center, City Lights Room
500 Parnassus Avenue, East Tower Entrance
San Francisco, CA 94143
Healthy Kids, Healthy Lives: A post-modern view of pediatric & adolescent mental health
Scott Shannon, MD, ABIHM
Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado, Department of Child Psychiatry at Children's Hospital in Denver
Children today face increasing challenges that can act as triggers for rising psychiatric symptoms. These range from reduced sleep, pressured school, disconnected family life, escalating obesity, depressed mothers, intrusive media and poor nutrition. In addition, there is a rapidly escalating use of psychiatric medications, yet a shortage of evidence about their effectiveness and safety. During this hour, Dr. Shannon will examine many of the assumptions built into our current system of pediatric and adolescent mental health, and will offer a new vision for the future. He will explain why we must take a broader view of children’s mental health and what this means for both parents and professionals.
This is the 4th lecture of the Pritzker Lecture Series on Integrative Pediatric and Adolescent Health, a project of the Osher Center's Healthy Lives, Healthy Families Program.
Special thanks to the Pritzker Family Fund for supporting this event.
