Valley Health Conference
Who Should Attend
Women and Men interested in learning how to achieve optimum health and longevity throughout their lives by educating them in matters affecting their health. You’re invited to join us as we learn about Rheumatoid Arthritis, SLE Lupus and other auto immune disorders, hormonal health for MEN & WOMEN and libido, menopause & hormones, knee surgeries in women, & colorectal cancer.
Health Care Professionals-Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists, dentists, hygienists, dieticians, radiologic technologists, occupational therapists, mental health professionals and other health care professionals who are interested in providing their patients with direction and information on how to achieve and maintain physical and mental health.
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Speakers & Topics
Jeanne Levanthal Alexander, M.D.
Topic: Libido, menopause and hormones
Dr. Alexander has been a psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group since 1985. She currently is the regional director of the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group Psychiatry Women’s Health Program and is a partner of the Permanente Medical Group. She is an adjunct assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford, a voluntary clinical faculty position. Dr. Alexander donates the rest of her time to her non-profit foundation (501,c, 3), the Alexander Foundation for Women’s Health, which aims to advance knowledge in women’s health for clinicians and patients through such projects as women’s health delivery guidelines in the field of libido as well as mood during and after the menopause. She is board certified by the American Academy of Psychiatry and Neurology and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and has two additional specialty boards from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Addiction Medicine and Geriatric Psychiatry. She has widely lectured and
published in the areas of reproductive gynecology and psychiatric aspects of women's health.
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Robert A. Greene, M.D.
Topics: Perfect Balance Hormonal Health for MEN & WOMEN
Robert A. Greene received his bachelor’s degree and subsequently his medical degree from Ohio State University. Dr. Greene is certified by the both American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) and the ABOG Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility. He is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Greene is affiliated with UC-Davis Medical Center as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Obstetrics and Gynecology, focusing primarily on studies involving the hormone-brain relationship. His educational activities include a very active lecture schedule, targeting diverse audiences from OB/GYN’s and Family Practice Providers to Neurologists and Psychiatrists on subjects ranging from sexual dysfunction and chronic pelvic pain to managing migraine headaches and epilepsy. Dr. Greene has published numerous articles in the medical/scientific literature. More recently, he provided assistance to Suzanne Somers and wrote the forward for her book, The Sexy Years, in addition to writing his own book, Perfect Balance: Breakthrough Program for Finding the Lifelong Hormonal Health You Deserve.
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Bevra Hahn, M.D.
Topics: Lupus and Autoimmune Diseases
Bevra H. Hahn is Professor of Medicine, Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Chief of Rheumatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, where she has been since 1983. A summa-cum-laude graduate of Ohio State University, Dr. Hahn received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins. She has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, and the Association of American Physicians. In 1995 she was elected as a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. She did an internship and residency in medicine in St. Louis at Barnes Hospital, Washington University. She is past-president of the American College of Rheumatology and has just been elected Master of that organization. Among her awards are the Dunlop-Dottridge Award of the Canadian Rheumatism Association for research in rheumatology, the Joseph Bunim Medal and prize of the American College of Rheumatology, the Holley Research prize in Rheumatology, the Southern California Arthritis Foundation's Klinenberg Medal for Arthritis Research, the Carol-Nachman International Award for Rheumatology Research, and the Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award. Dr. Hahn has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers and over 40 book chapters or reviews as well as serving as co-editor of an influential textbook Dubois’ Lupus Erythematosus. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Annals of Internal Medicine and Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. Her current research at the Laboratory for Lupus Research at UCLA includes investigations in genetics, pathogenesis, atherosclerosis, and treatment of lupus. The laboratory is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Arthritis Foundation (National and Southern California Chapters), the American College of Rheumatology/Research Education Foundation, the Dorough Foundation, the Lupus Research Institute, a Lupus Clinical Trials Center award, and private donors including Bertram Maltz, MD, Bud and Marla Paxson, Roger and Carolyn Horchow, and Jeanne Rappaport.
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Peter T. Simonian, M.D.
Topic: Knee Injuries in Women
Dr. Peter Simonian is a nationally renowned orthopedic Sports Medicine Specialist. Raised in Fresno, CA, Dr. Simonian came back to the Valley from Washington with his wife and two daughters. Dr. Simonian has been Chief of the Sports Medicine Clinic, as well as the Director of Sports Medicine Research and an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He has served as the Team Physician for the University of Washington Husky Intercollegiate Athletics Department and a consulting physician to the National Football League’s Seattle Sea Hawks. He has also performed a similar role with the New York Mets, Major League baseball club. His research has resulted in more than 150 publications in the most prestigious American and international journals and he holds patents for ACL surgical methods. He is an editor of both a leading knee journal and textbooks. Dr. Simonian directs the Sports Medicine Program of Community Medical Centers and is a Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco.
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Jeffrey Weitzel, M.D.
Topic: Colorectal cancer genetics and awareness
Jeffrey N. Weitzel, MD is the director of the Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics and the Cancer Screening & Prevention Program at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, California. Dr. Weitzel is Board Certified in clinical genetics and medical oncology, as well as internal medicine and hematology, and he is an Associate Professor of Oncology at the City of Hope and a Clinical Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.
Dr. Weitzel earned his bachelor of science degree, in microbiology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and later earned his medical doctorate from the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, and served as a research fellow in the Hematology Department at Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, London, U.K. He subsequently completed Hematology, Medical Oncology and Clinical Genetics Fellowships at the New England Medical Center, Boston, where he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr. Weitzel’s multidisciplinary clinical, research, and training programs emphasize translational research in genetic cancer risk assessment, chemoprevention, psychosocial and clinical outcomes research, and the major focus in the laboratory is on molecular oncology and women's cancers. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and serves on the Cancer Prevention subcommittee. He is also a member of the NCCN Genetics/Familial Risk Assessment practice guidelines committee.
Dr. Weitzel is the principal investigator for the City of Hope Cancer Genetics Education Program and for the Cancer Genetics Career Development Program, which are funded by the National Cancer Institute.
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Schedule & Events
April 20, 2007
Continuing Education Units (Units pending at this time)
Physicians
Nurses, LVN’s
Marriage and Family Therapists & Social Workers
Psychologists
Dental Professionals
Occupational Therapists
Respiratory Care Practitioners
Pharmacists
Drug & Alcohol Educators
If your profession is not listed, please contact your Board to determine how to receive credit or CEU’s.
The contents of this conference does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of UpDate On Health, nor does mention of trade names, products, individual or organizations imply their endorsement.
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