2008 Lecture Events
Date & Location:
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 6:30P.M.
The Residence of Marianne and Roger Staubach
Topic:
Building a Brain to Last
Speaker:
Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D.
Founder & Executive Director
University of Texas - Dallas
Center for BrainHealth®
Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman is the founder and Executive Director of The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Center for BrainHealth®. Dr. Chapman holds the Dee Wyly Distinguished Chair in BrainHealth and is a professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Science at UTD. Dr. Chapman is playing a lead role in advancing how we understand, protect, and heal cognitive brain function in brain injury, brain disease, and healthy brain development across the lifespan. Until recently, our whole idea of fitness stopped at the neck. Now, thanks to new breakthroughs in brain science we are discovering key ways to build a healthy brain and to bring repair to brain injury and disease.
Date & Location:
Wednesday, May 6, 2008 - 6:30P.M.
The Residence of Connie and John Pearcy
Topic:
We've Come A Long Way, Baby
Speaker:
Prof. John F. Banzhaf III.
Professor of Public Interest Law
Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor
George Washington University
John F. Banzhaf is a nationally-known professor and practitioner of public interest law at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Prof. Banzhaf has been called "the Ralph Nader" of the tobacco industry for his anti-tobacco efforts, including banning cigarette commercials and smoking in many public areas, as well as getting health insurance companies to charge smokers more. He has been in the news more recently regarding legal action against the problem of obesity in some of the same ways he pioneered in its use against the problem of smoking. He and his law students are currently behind a class action law suit against McDonald's based upon its alleged misrepresentation of its french fries.
Date & Location:
Wednesday, September 23, 2008 - 6:30P.M.
The Residence of Rebecca and Jon Bayless
Topic:
The Eyes Have It - Natural and Traditional Remedies
Speaker:
Robert Abel, M.D.
Teacher/practitioner of conventional eye therapy
Former clinical professor of opthamology
Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Robert Abel is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Jefferson Medical College. He performed his ophthalmology training at the Mount Sinai Hospital (in New York City) and a cornea transplant fellowship at the University of Florida. Dr. Abel co-founded the alternative medicine curriculum at Thomas Jefferson University where he is a former clinical professor of ophthalmology. He has helped found eye banks, holds patents on artificial corneas, and received the senior honor award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Abel has long been a nationally renowned teacher of conventional eye therapy. He assisted with the translations of ancient Ayurvedic eye therapies and his mission is bringing mind-body medicine to 21st century eyecare. He is a practitioner of Tai Chi Ch'uan. Dr. Abel lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with his wife and three children.
Date & Location:
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 6:30P.M.
The Cooper Institute, Bohannon Hall
Dinner Buffet and Complimentary Valet Parking
Topic:
From Genes to Heart Disease
Speaker:
Helen Hobbs, M.D.
Director of Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development
Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics
Dr. Helen Hobbs is the Director of Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development and Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She was endowed the 1995 Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Cardiology Research Eugene McDermott Distinguished Chair for the Study of Human Growth and Development. Dr. Hobbs specialties include endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism and clinical genetics and research interests include genetic determinants of plasma lipid levels, LDL metabolism, and the role of ABC transporters in lipid transport.