Feb. 17, 1998
Contact: Mayerene Barker,
(818) 677-2130
mbarker@exec.csun.edu
Co-sponsor of the day-long event, which has as its theme "Living Well into...The Golden Years," is the Encino-Tarzana Medical Center.
"We have designed this symposium to address the critical issues facing the aging population in our Valley," said Steven F. Loy, director of the Exercise Physiology Laboratory in the CSUN kinesiology department and an organizer of the event. "The topics are timely and will be presented at a level that is clearly understandable and applicable to both the clinician and the layperson."
After late registration and check-in at 7 a.m., Dr. Marvin Moser clinical professor of medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, will deliver the morning's keynote address. His topic will be "Prevention--A Priority for the Aging. It Does Not Have to Bankrupt the Health Care System."
The keynote speaker for the afternoon session, beginning at 12:50 p.m., will be William J. Evans, director, Nutrition, Metabolism and Exercise Program, Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He will discuss "Ask the Expert: The Ten Determinants of Aging Which Can be Controlled."
Conference-goers will be able to choose four sessions--two in the morning and two in the afternoon--from among 11 on the day's program. They include aging and memory, arthritis, hypertension, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, the aging athlete, prevention of falls and more.
Among those conducting sessions will be Alan Hartley, Scripps College psychology professor; UCLA nursing professor Betty Chang; Dr. Rodanthi C. Kitridou, professor at USC School of Medicine; Dr. Laurence Z. Rubenstein, director, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, UCLA-Sepulveda Veterans Medical Center; Letha B. Zook, assistant professor, CSUN Department of Health Sciences, and others.
The symposium is open to the public, as well as to CSUN faculty, staff and students and to health care professionals. And best of all, said Loy, it's affordable. Pre-registration costs, which include lunch, are $35 for students and non-health care professionals, $20 for people age 60 and older, $75 for physicians and $40 for other health-care professionals.
"An affordable conference of this magnitude and scope is a rarity for Southern California and residents of the Valley have the advantage of it being offered in their backyard," Loy said.
For more information about the conference, call Loy at (818) 677-3220, Dr. Eric Sleeten, director, CSUN sports medical center, at (818) 677-3666 or George Holland, CSUN kinesiology professor, at (818) 677-3205.
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