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On Saturday May 22nd in New York City, we’ll be presenting a brand new FULL-DAY program.
At One Day U, the nation’s finest professors from the very best schools present their very best lectures. Now we’re taking that exciting concept into a brand new field!
Award winning medical and health professors will discuss the latest research, developments, discoveries, and treatments.
Each world-class educator is on the forefront of medical advances in his or her area of expertise:
Julie Silver, MD (Harvard) – Understanding Cancer: How to Prevent it and How to Stop the Spread
Dr. Silver is a renowned expert in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and was formerly on the medical staff at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s, Massachusetts General, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospitals in Boston. She is the recipient of the most prestigious honor bestowed by the American Cancer Society: The Lane Adams Quality of Life Award. Dr. Silver is also the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including a number of medical textbooks and the books, What Helped Get Me Through, Super Healing; After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster and Better, and Life After Stroke.
Daichi Shimbo, MD (Columbia) – The Truth About Heart Disease: America’s #1 Health Problem and How to Avoid It
Dr. Shimbo holds faculty appointments in the Divisions of General Medicine and Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is an integral member of the Behavioral Cardiovascular Health and Hypertension Program. Dr. Shimbo specializes in cardiac imaging using ultrasonography. He received Mount Sinai’s Cardiology Department of Medicine’s Outstanding Research Award for his research into thrombosis and inflammation.
Marie Pasinski, MD (Harvard) – Warding Off Alzheimer’s: Keeping Your Brain Active At Any Age
On the Neurology staff of Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s as well as Harvard University Medical School Hospitals, Dr. Pasinski is renown for her work with older patients and her custom designed brain exercise programs that help keep patients active and alert – warding of dementia and related brain dysfunction.
Ronald Tamler, MD (Mount Sinai) – Diabetes: Stopping It Before It Stops You
Ronald Tamler is a board-certified endocrinologist, internist and nutrition-support physician at Mount Sinai Hospital. He specializes in Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and diabetic complications. His PhD in free radical biology paved the way for his current focus on the effect of diabetes and sex hormones on the inner lining of blood vessels and diabetic complications. As Clinical Trials Leader for Mount Sinai’s Diabetes Program, Dr. Tamler is a sought-after speaker on ways to prevent the disease and its complications.
Shelley Carson, PHD (Harvard) – Understanding Depression in America
Shelley has won outstanding teaching awards at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and specializes in work involving the links between genius and mental illness – particularly creativity and depression. She is also a Department of Defense consultant for service members returning from Iraq and Iran.
William Hansen, MD (Penn) The Future of Medicine: What Will the Next Decade Look Like and and What That Means for You
Dr. Hansen is the Medical Director of the Penn Surgical Intensive Care Unit and a full Medical Command Physician with the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Dr. Hansen is also the author of the bestselling book: The Edge of Medicine.
One Day U Medical School will be an all-inclusive day of health education, focusing on the issues of greatest interest to our students.
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