Unless otherwise noted, please contact Sarah Krumholz at (415) 502-1899 or skrumholz@support.ucsf.edu to make a reservation for the  events listed below.
Please RSVP no later than September 19, 2008. Space is limited.

Monday September 22, 2008

The Power of Personalized Lifestyle Changes (Lecture)
Monday, September 22, 2008
2:00 pm - Cole Hall, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco
Dean Ornish, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and founder of the non-profit Preventative Medicine Research Institute

Dr. Dean Ornish, Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and founder of the non-profit Preventative Medicine Research Institute, will discuss the spectrum of choices that both transplant patients and the general public have in supporting healthy lifestyles. He will discuss how to personalize a way of eating and living just right for you, based on your own needs, genes, and preferences. His studies have shown that the progression of heart disease, prostate cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity may be prevented or even reversed by making comprehensive lifestyle changes describes in his latest New York Times bestseller, The Spectrum. His latest study showed that changing lifestyle changes gene expression, “turning on” disease-preventing genes and “turning off” genes that promote heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses.