COMING: SPRING –2008

UC Davis Center for Healthy Aging presents its annual, six-session “Mini Medical School" — a free community program open to the public. Parking provided. Save the dates!

Dates: February 2, 9, 16, 23 and March 1, 8
Times: Lecture starts at 9 a.m. Registration begins at 8 a.m.
(We will start accepting reservations late spring/early summer. Check back for further details.)
Location: 123 Sciences Lecture Hall — UC Davis Campus

The Mini Medical School offers lectures (2 each day) given by distinguished UC Davis physicians and faculty on a variety of health and aging topics for six Saturday mornings in the spring. The topics for the 2008 Mini Medical School will include the following:

• The Anatomy of Aging - by Dr. Michael McCloud
• The Pharmacology of Aging - by Dr. John Peters
• Men’s Health After 50 - by Dr. William Hoch
• Women’s Health After 50 - by Dr. Richard Sweet
• Nutrition and Healthy Aging - by Dietician Jill West
• Update on New Technologies in Joint Replacement - by Dr. John Meehan
• The Aging Eye - by Dr. Mark Mannis
• The Aging Ear - by Dr. Hilary Brodie
• Latest Medical Research Shows - by Vice Chancellor Barry Klein
• Romance, Sex and Love after 50 - by Ed Callahan, Ph.D.
• The Healthy Heart and Beyond - by Dr. Amparo Villablanca
• Memory and Aging  - by Dr. McCloud.

This popular series fills up quickly. Early registration is recommended to reserve your space.

The goal of the Mini Medical School series is to increase community outreach and patient consumer education within the older adult community of the greater Yolo County and Sacramento Area while promoting education of aging issues, disease prevention and health.

The 2008 UC Davis Mini Medical School is in its sixth year. Nationally, mini medical schools are public education programs provided by more than seventy medical schools, universities, research institutions and hospitals across the nation. It is a unique educational experience which creates the classroom environment of a medical school, allowing the community an opportunity to learn modern medical science from actual medical school faculty. Our final class features a graduation ceremony with a renowned keynote speaker. Students are presented with an official Mini Medical School graduation diploma to recognize their completion of the program.

2008 Mini-Medical School Brochure (PDF/700K; click the link for more details)

For more information please check back:
Healthy Aging Website: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/healthyaging
Tel: (916) 734-6441