Health

Bioethics: Reviving Higher Brain Death: This presentation discusses the definition of brain death, the on-going debate regarding this definition, and landmark court cases involving brain death and the removal of life-support. Audience participation in this discussion is encouraged.
Speaker: Samuel H. LiPuma

Chemistry and Health: Did you realize that Chemistry plays a key role in solving some of the most serious health problems the world is facing today? This presentation is about how chemists fight diseases and hunger around the world.
Speaker: Dr. Haidy N. Kamel

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The past decade has witnessed amazing scientific and medical advances that permit many diseases and conditions to be diagnosed earlier and to be treated more effectively, with end result of longer high-quality life for many individuals. For this reason, it is intriguing to know that about 40% of the US population are using complementary and alternative therapies. This presentation focuses on various forms of complementary and alternative practices and therapies and the reason for using them.
Speaker: Dr. Haidy N. Kamel

Drugs and Alcohol, Where We Have Been and What We're Currently On: This informative, entertaining presentation provides an understanding of the history of drugs in the USA, current drug trends, and policy issues facing both the local community and nation. This presentation can be tailored to multiple age groups to help educate and/or aide in prevention. Next steps are also offered. This presentation will be interactive with audience questions appreciated.
Speaker: Kevin Berg

Eating Disorders and Women's Issues
Speaker: Dr. Nahla Harik-Williams

Healthy Relationships
Speaker: David G. Nardecchia

Herbal Supplements: Chemistry of herbal supplements with a focus on their efficacy, toxicity and interactions with Western Drugs.
Speaker: Dr. Haidy N. Kamel

Individual and Group Therapy
Speaker: Dr. Nahla Harik-Williams

Mental Health
Speaker: Dr. Nahla Harik-Williams

Mental Health Issues: Co-occuring disorders
Speaker: Kevin Berg

My Life on a Plant-Based Diet - How a Routine Exam Opened my Eyes to a Whole New Way of Eating, and the Health Benefits I Have Realized: In this presentation, Dr. Rob Stuart will discuss his own personal experience with a plant based diet, briefly describing his family background, the health concerns that led him to change his way of eating, and the changes he has made over the years.  To give attendees a better understanding of the rationale for this approach to eating, he will briefly summarize some important research in the field of nutrition.  He will present a couple of very simple recipes that virtually anyone can prepare, and he will close with a list of resources that attendees can access if they wish to make the change to a plant-based diet.
Speaker: Dr. Rob Stuart

New drugs from Natural sources; What it takes: Natural products research and drugs in the market from natural sources.
Speaker: Dr. Haidy N. Kamel

Plant-Based Eating and Cooking: How to prevent and reverse heart disease through diet.
Speaker: Dr. Delia (Dee Dee) Pfister

Psychological Disorders and Their Treatments
Speaker: Dr. Nahla Harik-Williams

Safe and Effective Herbal supplements: A presentation on relatively safe herbal products with evidence of their physiological and therapeutic effect.
Speaker: Dr. Haidy N. Kamel

Substance Abuse, Chemical Dependency, Drugs and Alcohol
speaker: Kevin Berg 

The Importance of Self-Care: A troubling reality of modernity is that busyness characterizes the average American lifestyle. Go-getters are rewarded while laziness is frowned upon. Yet, what is sometimes lost in one's pursuit of the American Dream is the value of self-care. This presentation highlights what self-care, is not, and why it should be incorporated into one's daily life.
Speaker: Jason Moore