What: Doctors Speak Out, a series of conversations with leading Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) physicians on current health issues. The first talk Stress Less, Live Well, will explore the link between stress and obesity and hypertension as well as strategies to help fight these chronic conditions which have reached epidemic proportions in Americans.
When: Monday, September 21, 2009
12:00pm-2:00pm: Doctors Speak Out
2:00pm-3:00pm: GUMC physicians will be available for one-on-one media interviews
Note: This event is closed to the public; Media must RSVP by 10:00am, September 20, 2009
Where: Georgetown Marriott Conference Center (On Georgetown University campus)
3800 Reservoir Road, NW
Washington, DC 20057
*Media parking is available at Georgetown Marriott Parking Garage
Who: GUMC physicians in the field of hypertension, stress, kidney and vascular disease. They include:
Zofia Zukowska, MD, PhD, director of the Stress Physiology Research Center, has pioneered research on how chronic stress affects appetite, body weight, the heart, hypertension and anxiety. Her work sheds new light on how stress related hormones impacts many cardiovascular activities and contributes to atherosclerosis and metabolic disorders. Zukowska, chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, recently was awarded the highly competitive MERIT Award from the NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Christopher S. Wilcox, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, is a leading expert on the underlying causes of hypertension. Historically, hypertension, kidney and vascular diseases have been studied and treated separately. Yet Wilcox and colleagues have determined that these diseases may be caused by oxidative stress, an imbalance in the use of oxygen in cells. Wilcox was recently awarded the prestigious American Heart Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through Georgetown’s affiliation with MedStar Health). GUMC’s mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies, both nationally ranked, the world-renowned Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), home to 60 percent of the university’s sponsored research funding.
###
|
