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Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH Program Director/Principal Investigator Oregon Health & Science University
Elizabeth Eckstrom, MD, MPH, is a geriatrician who specializes in promoting an active lifestyle in older adults and issues relevant to healthy aging in women. She is Director of Geriatrics at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, Section Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, and Associate Professor of Medicine. Her research has focused on teaching residents how to counsel elderly patients in physical activity, doctor-patient communication, and tai chi for falls prevention in older people. She also studies the effectiveness of training primary care faculty in geriatrics, and speaks regionally and nationally on strategies to optimally care for older patients in primary care practice. Personal interests include travel, windsurfing, telemark skiing, gardening, and reading. |
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September 11, 2009 - 10 am-noon Lifestyle Strategies and Older Adult Quality of Life |
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Perry G. Fine, MD Professor of Anesthesiology Pain Research Center, School of Medicine University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah
Dr. Fine is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology of the School of Medicine at the University of Utah, where he serves on the faculty in the Pain Research Center, and is an attending physician in the Pain Management Center. He teaches the first- and second-year medical school courses in social medicine and the fourth-year medical school course in medical ethics. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Pain Foundation and is on the Steering Committee of the Pain Care Coalition, Washington, DC. Dr. Fine serves as the External Strategic Advisor for Capital Hospice, Washington, DC and is a consultant to the Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care, based in Albany, New York, developing and educationally supporting self-sustaining models of prehospice palliative care in community settings, as an integrative component of disease management and advanced illness coordinated care. He is very pleased to have been selected to serve as the Chair of the National Initiative on Pain Control for 2003 to 2009. |
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October 9, 2009 10 am-noon Assessing & Treating Pain: A Comprehensive View |
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Cascade Conference on Successful Aging c/o Cascade Center for Community Governance 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive, Suite 105 Bend, OR 97702 Phone: 541.647.2216 Fax: 541.306.3703 E-mail: info@cascadeaging.org
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November 13, 2009 10 am-noon Health Care Reform & Today's Economic Environment |
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Harry R. Moody is a graduate of Yale University and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. He has taught philosophy at Columbia University, Hunter College, New York University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. For the past 18 years he has been at the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College in the City University of New York, where he is Executive Director. Earlier, at the National Council on Aging in Washington, DC, he served as Co-Director of its National Policy Center. He is the author of over 75 articles and three books: Abundance of Life: Human Development Policies for an Aging Society (1988), Ethics in an Aging Society (1992), and most recently he published The Five Stages of the Soul (1997), a study of spiritual growth in the second half of life. He is known for his work in older adult education and served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel. He has also been active in the field of biomedical ethics and is an Adjunct Associate of the Hastings Center, Briarcliff, New York. Dr. Moody is currently the Director of Academic Affairs for AARP in Washington, DC. He also serves as Senior Associate with the International Longevity Center-USA and Senior Fellow of Civic Ventures. |
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Harry R. “Rick” Moody, PhD Director, AARP Office of Academic Affairs Washington, D.C. |