Women and Heart Health Educational Program

Published February 7, 2011 This content is archived.

The UB Medical Alumni Association will present an educational program titled “The Heart of Women’s Health” on Saturday, February 12, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Buffalo Niagara Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, in Amherst.

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Area physicians, researchers, patients and their families are invited to attend.

The cost is $40 per person, or $350 per table of 10. (Registration fees include a breakfast.)

Participants will receive 2.25 CME credits.

Featured speakers are the following UB faculty members, whose talks will be followed by a panel discussion and a question-and-answer session:

Anne B. Curtis, MD, chair of UB’s Department of Medicine and the Charles and Mary Bauer Professor of Medicine.

Curtis is an internationally recognized leader in cardiac electrophysiology. She will discuss the differences between men and women who suffer from cardiovascular disease.

Teresa Quattrin, MD, chair of UB’s Department of Pediatrics, A. Conger Goodyear Professor of Medicine, chief of the Endocrinology/Diabetes Division, pediatrician-in-chief at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, and director of the hospital’s Diabetes Center.

Quattrin is a renowned expert in childhood diabetes and obesity. She will discuss the relationship between diabetes and obesity and its effect on life at home.

Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, professor and associate chair of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, adjunct professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and vice provost for strategic initiatives at UB.

Wactawski-Wende recently received a $8.2 million award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to extend for five years research being conducted on the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) at UB. She will discuss hormone therapy, heart health and WHI initiatives.

Sylvia Regalla, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine at UB and adjunct professor of nutrition at the New York Chiropractic College.

Regalla is a founding diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. She will examine the relationship between stress and cardiovascular disease.

For more information and instructions on how to register, visit the UB Medical Alumni Association's website.

The event is sponsored by Buffalo General Hospital.

The mission of the UB Medical Alumni Association (UBMAA) is to provide an organization through which alumni of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences can stay connected to the school and the people involved with it. The UBMAA also strives to promote the interests and welfare of the school, its students and its activities.