Medical Effectiveness Research Center (MERC) Seminar

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

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Seminars and Lectures

Smoking Cessation and Prevention in Minorities

Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, MD Director, Medical Effectiveness Research Center (MERC) Department of Medicine

An Examination of Tobacco Use and Mental Illness in African Americans

Norval Hickman, PhD, MPH Postdoctoral Fellow with the Treatment Research Center Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute

Medical Effectiveness Research Center (MERC) Seminar

Contact: Cecilia Populus-Eudave at [email protected]

When Tue Dec 14 3pm – 5pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Laurel Heights campus ~ Conference Room 474 (map)

What Are Health Disparities? And Why Do Definitions Matter? Paula Braveman, MD, MPH Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health Professor, UCSF, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Center on Social Disparities in Health (CSDH) Seminar

Upcoming CSDH Seminars: Wed. January 5, 2011 – Stanton Glantz, PhD (Noon-1:30PM) Wed. February 23, 2011 – Darlene Francis, PhD (Noon-1:30 PM)

For more information: [email protected]

When Wed Dec 15 12pm – 1:30pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Laurel Heights campus - Room 474 (map)

Learn about the latest nutrition prostate cancer research and how to better meet your nutritional needs

Greta Macaire, MA, RD, CSO

Nutrition & Prostate Cancer

Offered:

Tuesday, December 28th, 4:00 – 6:00pm Wednesday, January 19th, 4:00 – 6:00pm Tuesday, February 22nd, 4:00 – 6:00pm

No charge. Held at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1600 Divisadero, 3rd floor. Please register with the Cancer Resource Center at 415.885.3693.

When Tue Dec 28 4pm – 6pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1600 Divisadero, 3rd floor (map)

Clinical Course of Advanced Dementia: Complications, Interventions, and Decision-Making Susan L. Mitchell MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Senior Scientist, Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research with an introduction given by:

Alexander Smith, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine Staff Physician (SFVAMC)

UCSF Geriatrics Division January Grand Rounds

Coffee and tea will be served

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

Participants will be able to describe the clinical course of patients advanced dementia. Participants will be able to describe the experience of the family members of patients with advanced dementia. Participants will be able to operationalize their knowledge of advanced dementia to help provide high quality care of persons with this condition and their families that is informed by the best available evidence.

Accreditation

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credit toward the AMA Physicians Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

The American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA category 1 credit issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

You must sign in to qualify for CME credit.

Faculty Relationship Disclosure

All speakers listed above have declared that neither they, nor any immediate member of their family have a financial arrangement or other relationship with the manufacturers of any commercial products discussed in this Continuing Medical Education activity. In addition, these speakers have agreed to inform learners if they plan to discuss or reference unapproved or unlabeled uses of therapeutic agents or products. Commercial Support Disclosure

No commercial support has been provided in conjunction with this grand rounds presentation.

Please contact Elaine Chow for more information: [email protected] or go to http://geriatrics.medicine.ucsf.edu/grandrounds/grandrounds.html

When Wed Jan 5 8am – 9am Pacific Time Where HSW-303, Health Sciences West, Parnassus Campus (map)

Center on Social Disparities in Health (CSDH) Seminar

Stanton Glantz, PhD

Other CSDH Seminar:

Wed. February 23, 2011 – Darlene Francis, PhD (Noon-1:30 PM)

For more information: [email protected]

When Wed Jan 5 12pm – 1:30pm Pacific Time Where UCSF Laurel Heights campus - Room 474 (map)

Other News

Emotional Brain Training Clinical Education

Training for clinicians to facilitate self-directed adaptive emotional plasticity interventions for self-regulation will be offered on January 7th – 8th at UCSF by the Center for Emotional Brain Training Research national coordinating center for EBT research, which is affiliated with the Center for Health and Community.

This program will provide introductory certification in EBT for 10 clinicians, including providing introductory interventions based on EBT and an 8-week group program for treating non-homeostatic eating in pregnant women, as part of research sponsored by the Center of Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment (COAST).

Continuing education credit for this training is available and no fees are required. Licensed mental health professionals and post-doctoral fellows are invited to apply for the certification program.

For additional information, please contact Laurel Mellin ([email protected] or 415-476-3751).

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December 8, 2010

Dear Friend of Mindfulness Programs,

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the upcoming 2011 Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) Programs for expectant couples offered at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF. The class dates are:

Wednesdays, January 19 to March 16 Tuesdays, March 22 to May 9, Wednesdays, May 4 to June 29

The MBCP program is an invitation to begin or deepen the practice of mindfulness—moment to moment non- judgmental awareness of one’s unfolding experience—for meeting the profound changes of body and mind during pregnancy, childbirth and parenting.

Results from our pilot study published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies Special Issue on Mindfulness for Children and Families showed that pregnant women who take the MBCP course experience reductions in pregnancy-related anxiety and depression, and increases in mindfulness and positive emotion. http://www.springerlink.com/content/m5r63w06650483jg/

For those unable to attend the full 9-week course, there are will be two one-day workshops entitled Mind in Labor on: Saturday, March 12 Saturday, May 7

The focus of this workshop will be learning mindfulness skills to work with pain and fear in childbirth.

We are also pleased that our new Level 1 Professional Development and Teacher Training (PDTT) in Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) course was a great success and will be offered conjunction with the January MBCP course. This Level 1 Training was established in response to the increasing requests from perinatal health professionals who wish to establish their own personal mindfulness practice, learn more about the MBCP program, and be in dialogue with other perinatal professionals seeking to enfold a mindfulness perspective into their work. The Level 1 PDTT includes attendance in the weekly MBCP course with the expectant couples, 3 two-hour seminars plus an individual review session with Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA the course instructor and founder of the MBCP Program.

Detailed information about the Level 1 PDTT program can be found at: http://www.osher.ucsf.edu/education/mbcptraining.html

All classes and workshops will be held in the new Osher Building at 1545 Divisadero St. (cross street: Post).

Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA Kevin Barrows, MD

Mindfulness-Based Childbirth Medical Director And Parenting Education UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine 415-353-7700 415-353-7409 [email protected] [email protected] www.osher.ucsf.edu www.mindfulbirthing.org

Please Note:

On January 10, 2011, UCSF’S Osher Center will be officially moved into our new building. OSHER BUILDING 1545 Divisadero Street (cross street: Post) Floor 4 San Francisco, CA 94115

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