What can you do to help prevent and cope with the conditions brought on by diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis and other health problems? How can exercise help with arthritic pain? What types of foods should you eat? What can you do to prevent heart disease and cancer? This course explores some health problems commonly experienced by older adults. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn and ask questions about what really works for preventing and coping with these conditions.
Course Chair: Joan B. Wood, PhD, adjunct professor, departments of social and behavioral sciences and medicine; director, Northern California Geriatric Education Center; associate director, UCSF/Mount Zion Center on Aging; campus planner, UCSF Academic Geriatric Resource Center.
May 7
Nutritional Approaches to Disease Prevention:
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS, professor of medicine, associate dean for CME; vice-chief, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine
Prevention of Osteoporosis and Osteoporotic Fractures:
Steve Harris, MD, associate professor of medicine, UCSF Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
May 14
Preventing and Managing Diabetes:
Lisa A. Kroon, PharmD, CDE, associate professor of clinical pharmacy, UCSF School of Pharmacy
Arthritis and Exercise: A Prescription for Prevention and Management of Pain:
Kerstin Morehead, MD, assistant clinical professor of medicine, UCSF Division of Rheumatology/Arthritis
May 21
Current Controversies in Cancer Screening: Where Should the Priorities Be?
Judith M.E. Walsh, MD, MPH, assistant professor of clinical medicine, UCSF Women’s Health Clinical Research Center
Prevention of Heart Disease: Balancing Risk Factors and New Technologies:
Jonathan Zaroff, MD, assistant professor of medicine; director, Coronary Care Unit, UCSF Medical Center
