Health

Aging and Gerontology:
Speaker: Dr. Valerie S. Brown

Art Therapy: Art therapy is a mental health profession in which clients, facilitated by the art therapist, use art media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork to explore their feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior and addictions, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem. Art therapy is widely practiced in a variety of settings including hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, schools, senior communities and many other settings. This speech discusses Art Therapy, and can be customized based upon audience interest.
Speaker: Mary Sender

Art Therapy for Older Adults: Art therapy promotes well-being at any age. It has been shown to have a positive impact on health, cognition, social interaction, stress reduction, confidence, and life's many challenges. This speech discusses art therapy techniques helpful for older adults.
Speaker: Mary Sender

Bioethics: This workshop will look at the overlooked theory of Bioethics known as Care Oriented Bioethics. In healthcare, we have an ethical responsibility to provide proper care, and we will focus on this theory to increase understanding about the elements of good care. You will be challenged as you review this philosophy of care; and the focus of healing beyond what we do, to how we do it.
Speaker: Kerry Tobin

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

Health and Culture:
Speaker: Dr. Valerie S. Brown

Healthy Relationships:
Speaker: Andrea Cain Smith, 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

I Can't hEAR you: This topic discusses the EARly symptoms of childhood otitis media (middle ear infection) and the late consequences that can be associated with this illness.
Speaker: Andrea Cain Smith

Learning Disabilities (LD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD):
Speaker: Mary Sender

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

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: Delia (Dee Dee) Bober

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

Power Surge: Hot flashes are a nuisance to any pre-menopausal women experiencing them. This topic is aimed to discuss the reason behind these "power surges", and how they can be handled and viewed more positively.
Speaker: Andrea Cain Smith

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

Subtle Signs of Heart Disease in Women: According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the number one killer of women. This speech will discuss heart disease in women and how the symptoms of a myocardial infarction (heart attack) can be subtle.
speaker: Andrea Cain Smith

Toxic Shock: The unhealthy consequences of toxic relationships: Toxic relationships account for many stress related health conditions both physically and psychologically - oftentimes interfering with an individual's ability to focus, cope and reason. This speech will help individuals to identify toxic relationships and will discuss how to "detox" from them.
Speaker: Andrea Cain Smith