Northwell Health Seminar Discover a Healthier You: How Research Will Improve Your Life Thursday, March 3, 2016 The Cohen Pavilion at The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts West Palm Beach, Florida
Northwell Health Seminar Discover a Healthier You: How Research Will Improve Your Life Research is the key to advancing medical treatment. But do you ever wonder what research can do for your health right now? Join us at the Kravis Center to participate in an engaging program with Northwell Health your partner in living a healthy life. We re one of the nation s leading health care networks, and we re pioneering transformative research that benefits you today. Imagine doctors using electricity to stimulate your body s immune system to help cure illness without drugs. Or using gene therapy to decrease your risk of ever developing arthritis. And what if you could learn how to improve your decisionmaking ability when dealing with a distressing and uncertain medical condition? Northwell Health is pioneering treatments in each of these areas to help improve your quality of life right now. We want to share exciting research that s advancing medicine and is available to you today. You ll hear from our renowned physicians and scientists who are global leaders in these fields. The best part you already have access to them through Northwell Health. We hope you will join us and we look forward to helping you discover a healthier you.
Northwell Health Seminar Discover a Healthier You: How Research Will Improve Your Life Thursday, March 3, 2016 8:00 8:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:30 8:40 am Welcome Michael J. Dowling, President and CEO, Northwell Health Mark L. Claster, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Northwell Health 8:40 9:00 am Introduction to the 2016 Seminar Thomas McGinn, MD, MPH Chair, Department of Medicine Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Northwell Health David J. Greene Professor of Medicine Lawrence G. Smith, MD, MACP Executive Vice President and Physician-in-Chief, Northwell Health Dean, 9:00 9:45 am Session 1 Integrating the Human Genome into Clinical Medicine: A Rapidly Changing Challenge Peter K. Gregersen, MD 9:45 10:30 am Session 2 It s Not Just Heartburn: The Latest Findings on Reflux Disease Larry Miller, MD 10:30 11:00 am Break 11:00 11:45 am Session 3 Decision-Making for Serious Illness: Focusing on the Patient Michael A. Diefenbach, PhD 11:45 am 12:30 pm Session 4 Bioelectronic Medicine: Using Electrons as Drugs Kevin J. Tracey, MD 12:30 pm Concluding Remarks and Q&A 1:00 pm Lunch
About our Speakers Course Director Thomas McGinn, MD, MPH Chair, Department of Medicine Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Northwell Health David J. Greene Professor of Medicine Faculty Michael A. Diefenbach, PhD Director, Behavioral Research Fellow, Society of Behavioral Medicine Department of Medicine and Urology Northwell Health Peter K. Gregersen, MD Director, Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Professor, Molecular Medicine Larry Miller, MD Chief, Division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine Northwell Health Professor, Medicine Kevin J. Tracey, MD President and CEO The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Professor, Molecular Medicine and Neurosurgery Associate Dean, Research
TM The Cohen Pavilion at The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts 701 Okeechobee Boulevard West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Directions From I-95: Exit 70 at Okeechobee Boulevard, head east on Okeechobee Boulevard for approximately 1/2 mile. Take a left on Tamarind Avenue (first light, just past the railroad tracks). The Kravis parking garage will be your first right. From U.S. Highway 1: Take U.S. 1 to Okeechobee Boulevard and head west approximately 1/4 mile. Make a right onto Tamarind Avenue (just before the second railroad crossing). Parking garage will be your first right. From Florida s Turnpike: Exit the Turnpike at the West Palm Beach exit (Okeechobee Blvd). Head east approximately 7 miles. Continue past the I-95 overpass another 1/2 mile, and take a left on Tamarind Avenue (first light, just past the railroad tracks). The Kravis parking garage will be your first right. Parking Free Parking: Available in the Kravis Center parking garage. Valet Parking: Available at a cost of $12.00 per car. Valet Parking is available in front of the Center (enter from Okeechobee Blvd.) Public transportation Tri-Rail: West Palm Beach Station Stop. Tri-Rail 1-800-874-7245. We are located approximately 3 blocks South from the West Palm Beach Tri-Rail station.
We Are Northwell Health Formerly North Shore-LIJ Health System At Northwell Health, we re devoted to a different kind of health care. Every day, we re thinking about ways to improve your quality of life. This means we place you and your family at the center of everything we do. Committed to discovery and research, highquality patient care and training future generations of health care leaders, we are leading the country in transforming how we take care of you to keep you well. Few other organizations can offer what we can a network of 21 hospitals and more than 450 outpatient practices that touches more than eight million people in and beyond metro New York. Our 61,000 employees are not only raising our standard of health care, they re raising the standard of health care. We re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research that benefit patients in real-time throughout our network. We re training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary and the School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. We are the face of health care and are living breakthroughs for you every day. To learn more about our approach to keeping you well, visit: www.northwell.edu. For more information about our health care educational events, contact Joanne Gallagher at (516) 465-2573, jgallagher1@northwell.edu LUM NWH 3356 2015_12_10