Free and open to the public
GALVESTON, Texas - The 2009 Lefeber Winter Series on Aging gets under way on Tuesday, Jan. 27, with Dr. Sharon K. Inouye, director of the Aging Brain Center at the Institute for Aging Research and professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discussing "Delirium in Older Persons: An Investigative Journey."
The one-hour lecture starts at 5 p.m. in the Levin Hall Auditorium, 10th and Market streets, at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The annual lecture series is sponsored by UTMB's Sealy Center on Aging. This is the 14th consecutive year the lectures have been held. The series is named in honor of the late Dr. James Edward Lefeber, UTMB professor of medicine and advocate of the study of aging.
The one-hour lectures are free and open to the public. Most of them start at 5 p.m. A reception follows each lecture.
Upcoming lectures include:
Feb. 3 - "Geriatrics: From Bedside to Bench to Policy - A Single Song in Different Keys," by Dr. Neil Resnick, chief of the division of geriatric medicine and director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute on Aging.
Feb. 10 - "Why Do Men of African Descent Have Poorer Prostate Cancer Outcomes? A Multilevel, Molecular Epidemiology Approach," by Timothy Rebbeck, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Feb. 17 - "Recovery From Hip Fracture: Evidence From the Baltimore Hip Studies," by Jay Magaziner, Ph.D., director of the division of gerontology and co-director of the Center for Research on Aging at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. This lecture is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m.
Feb. 24 - "What Good are Positive Emotions?" by Glenn Ostir, Ph.D., associate director for research in the division of geriatric medicine at UTMB.
March 3 - "Strategies for Addressing the Multifactorial Complexity of Common Geriatric Syndromes," by Dr. George A. Kuchel, director, University of Connecticut Center on Aging and chief of the division of geriatric medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
For more information, contact Beth Schilling at 409-747-3525 or baschill@utmb.edu.