Center on Aging / SC-GEC Faculty Development Seminar Series

April 2003
Dr. Dennis Dickson Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL	Title: Is Amyloid Lowering a Reasonable Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer’s Disease?
March 2003
Dr. Ellen Bouchard Ryan Case Western Reserve	Title: Communication Predicaments in Later Life
January 2003
Dr. Barry David Lebowitz NIMH, Adult Geriatric Treatment and Preventative Interventions Research Branch	Title: Design of Clinical Trials: New Science In Old Paradigms
December 2002
Dr. Jerry Kurent College of Medicine, MUSC	Title: Religious and Spiritual Traditions in End-of-Life Care
Dr. Cornelia Beck University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	Title: Nonpharmacological Interventions for Persons with Dementia
October 2002
Dr. David Snowdon University of Kentucky	Title: Aging with Grace: Findings from the Nun Study
Dr. Paul Eleazer University of South Carolina School of Medicine	Title: Geriatric Medical Education: Advances and Challenges
Gardenia Ruff, MSW, LISW	Title: Eliminating Health Disparities in South Carolina
August 2002
Dr. David Bachman Department of Psychiatry, MUSC	Title: Advances in Stroke Research Cerebrovascular Risk Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease
Dr. Mark Kindy Department of Physiology & Nsuroscience, College of Medicine, MUSC	Title: Stroke-Molecular Mechanism of Disease
July 2002
Dr. David Chui Baylor College of Medicine	Title: Advancing in Standard of Care: New Risk Reduction Strategies
June 2002
Mary Joan Oexmann, MS, RD	Title: Lighten Up, A Faith Based Approach to Lifestyle Church
May 2002
Dr. Ariel Deutch Vanderbilt University	Title: Dendritic Plasticity and Parkinson’s Disease
Dr. Bonnie Harris / Evelyn Trammell Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery / Institute for Voice and Swallowing	Title: Physiology of Normal Swallow
April 2002
Dr. Ole Isaacson Harvard University Medical School	Title: The Evolution of Neural and Stem Cell Therapies for Parkinson’s
Dr. Kumar Sambamurti University of Florida	Title: Alzheimer’s Disease: Cellular and Molecular Advances
March 2002
Dr. Sean Morrison Mt. Sinai School of Medicine	Title: Suffering in Silence: The Need for Palliative Care in End Stage Dementia

October 2001
Dr. Jerome Kurent MUSC	Title: Impact of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity on End-of-Life Care

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