UF College of Medicine Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds
Where: Shands Jacksonville, LRC Auditorium, Health Science Building When: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Speaker: Lawrence H. Kushi, ScD, Kaiser Permanente
Lawrence H. Kushi, ScD, associate director for etiology and prevention research at Kaiser Permanente, is internationally recognized for his expertise in nutritional epidemiology. His research interests have focused on the role of diet and nutrition in the etiology of coronary artery disease and breast and other cancers.
He has served on various review committees, including the Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section of the National Institutes of Health and the Integration Panel of the Breast Cancer Research Program of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. Kushi is part of a grant review committee for the American Cancer Society and has also served on other ACS committees to develop guidelines for the dietary prevention and management of cancer. He was formerly the chair of the Food and Nutrition Section of the American Public Health Association and was on the executive committee of the American Society of Preventive Oncology.
Kushi graduated from Amherst College and the Harvard School of Public Health. Before joining Kaiser Permanente, he served as the Ella McCollum Vahlteich Chair in Human Nutrition in the Department of Health and Behavior Studies at Columbia University and was a member of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
The learning objectives for this grand rounds session are as follows:
- Understand the role of epidemiologic studies in investigating diet-cancer relationships
- Understand current efforts at development or revision for dietary guidelines for cancer prevention or survival
- Know basis for current guidelines for diet and cancer prevention
- Appreciate interests in complementary and alternative diet and nutrition approaches to cancer such as macrobiotics
The UF College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Florida College of Medicine designates this education activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.