"HealthMatters"
The UTMB Speakers' Bureau
The UTMB Speakers' Bureau is one of the many ways members of
the university serve the community. Our experts share their expertise on a wide
range of health-related topics for community organizations and schools.
Since 2003, UTMB speakers have presented more than 200
public talks through the program. There are more than 150 speakers enrolled in
the bureau.
Service
to the community is a core value for UTMB, and this program supports that value
by freely making available important information about:
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the changes taking place in health
care,
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medical advances and staying
healthy,
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making difficult
choices, and
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a variety of other topics near and dear to the hearts of our
faculty and professional staff.
The UTMB Speakers' Bureau is a volunteer organization and is
offered free of charge. Requests for speakers should be made at least six weeks
in advance. Speakers may be available days or evenings for groups of at least 20
people.
Note: The UTMB Speakers' Bureau presentations are not
specifically accredited for Continuing Medical Education. If you are interested
in accredited Continuing Medical Education for physicians please contact UTMB's
Office of Continuing Education, a program of the Office of Community Outreach at
http://www.utmb.edu/oce/.
To find out more about this program, to schedule a UTMB Speakers' Bureau
representative for your group, or to inquire about becoming a speaker, please
call the UTMB Community/School Connection at (409) 772-4100.
Here are some
sample topics:
Understanding Emerging
Threats to Global Health
We
live in a complicated world full of mind-boggling technology and scientific
know-how. We have cured diseases, defied the elements and shrunk the globebut
at a price. Our relatively new ability to travel the world has allowed
once-isolated diseases to jump geographical boundaries into our own backyard.
And the technology that provides our modern standard of living can also poison
our nest. Emerging threats to human health may be organic, such as the Ebola
virus or dengue fever. They may be environmental, such as lead in the water
supply or improper disposal of hazardous waste. As home to the World Health
Organization Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases and the Centennial
Center for Environmental Toxicology, UTMB is uniquely qualified to address these
and related issues, such as
:
Bioterrorism
Tropical
Diseases
Environmental
Contaminants and Safety
Infectious
Diseases
Travel
Medicine
Lead
Poisoning
Good Health: How to Get It--How
to Keep It
Achieving
and maintaining good mental and physical health is a goal of most Americans, but
an apple a day may not be enough to keep the doctor away. Proper diet and
exercise, a positive outlook on life, and an ounce of prevention are components
of a healthy lifestyle. Learn how to hitch a ride on the road to good health.
The following is just a handful of the myriad topics UTMB’s experts are
willing and eminently able to speak about.
Prenatal
Care
Stress
Reduction
Infant
Nutrition
Skin
Health and Care
Men’s
Health Issues
Exercise
Training
Speech
and Hearing
Sexually
Transmitted Diseases
Women’s
Health Issues
Cardiovascular
Disease
Geriatric
Health Issues
Doing the “Right” Thing
In
health care, the “right” answer can be difficult to find. That is
particularly true when individual, professional, societal and institutional
values collide. The medical advances that can allow us to live even in times of
severe illness or injury also present us with hard ethical questions. How much
medical intervention is too much? How can we communicate our wishes in the event
we can’t speak for ourselves? How do we reconcile quantity of life versus
quality of life? UTMB speakers, including those on the faculty of the
university’s Institute for the Medical Humanities, can provide information on
finding the “right” answer about a wide variety of issues, including:
End-of-Life
Decision Making
Medical
Ethics
Telling
the Truth
Keeping
Confidences
Recent
Developments in Health Care Reform
Preventing, Treating and
Coping with Chronic Illness
Modern
medicine has transformed how we think abou--and
live with--certain
illnesses. Once thought of as imminent death sentences, conditions such as
cancer, heart disease and AIDS have for many people become chronic diseases.
Still, they exact a heavy toll on society: money spent on tests and years’
worth of medicines; lost productivity in the workplace; stress and anxiety for
patients and their families alike. Our experts have valuable information to
share about the prevention of disease and living a full life with chronic
illness if it does occur. Following is just a partial list.
AIDS
Epilepsy
Alzheimer’s
Disease
Osteoporosis
Cancer
Attention
Deficit Disorders
Arthritis
Depression
and Anxiety
Diabetes
Preventing, Treating and Coping with
Chronic Disease
Advancing the Practice of
Medicine
Medical
advances run the gamut from astonishing breakthroughs that make the evening news
to more low-key changes that make day-to-day life easier for patients. Take a
telemedicine system that allows physicians to cost-effectively treat patients at
distant sites, patients who otherwise would have limited access to high-quality
care. Or, a new medicine that cuts in half the time it takes wounds to heal. Or
even the discovery that a comforting session in a rocking chair can also reduce
postoperative bowel troubles for hysterectomy and C-section patients. From the
laboratory bench to the bedside, UTMB researchers and clinicians are at the
forefront of a medical revolution¾one
that takes place every minute of every day. Our experts can talk about a wide
range of advances, including:
Imaging
Technology and Advances
Laser
Technology
Telemedicine
Technology
Transfer
Distance
Learning
Oslerian
Medicine
Navigating Today’s Health
Care Environment
While
the promise of sweeping, legislated health care reform has yet to materialize,
forces operating in today’s health care market have brought continuous change
to the medical environment. The days of house calls and fee-for-service
treatments have given way to the gatekeepers of managed care. Understanding
these changes can provide greater access to the care you and your family desire
and deserve. Our knowledgeable speakers can help you navigate this medical maze
with educational presentations about a number of topics, such as:
UTMB Overview
Managed Care in the
Correctional Setting
Medicare and Medicaid Issues
Strategic Planning in Health
Care
Managed Care Products and
Partnerships
A reminder: If you don’t see a
preferred topic in the list that follows, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
With more than 13,000 faculty and staff in the UTMB community, listing all of
the topics they can and do speak about would be a difficult task. Just call the
Community/School Connection at (409) 772-4100 and we’ll put you in touch with
one of our many experts.
Attention Deficit Disorders
Anger, Aggression and Violence
AIDS
Alzheimer’s Disease
Arthritis
Biomedical Engineering
Breast-Feeding
Cancer
Cardiovascular Health
Children
Childhood Development
Daycare Health and Safety
Infant Nutrition
Depression and Anxiety
Diabetes
Dyslexia
Environmental Contaminants and Safety
Epilepsy
Gastrointestinal Health
Gene Cloning and Medicine
Genes and Your Health
Genetic Disorders
Health and Wellness
Exercise Training
Nutrition
Stress Reduction
Hospice Care
Human Genetics
Imaging Technology and Advances
Infectious Diseases
Interferons
Laser Technology
Lead Poisoning
Medical Ethics
End-of-Life Decision Making
Keeping Confidences
Recent Developments in Health Care Reform
Telling the Truth
Men’s Health Issues
Mental Health
Molecular Biology
Neurological Disorders
Osteoporosis
Prenatal Care
Rural Health Care
Safety Issues
School Health Education
Seniors’ Health Issues
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Skin Health and Care
Speech and Hearing
Sports Medicine
Stroke
Technology and Medicine
Telemedicine
Toxicology
Travel Medicine
Tropical Diseases
Wellness and Preventive Medicine
Women’s Health Issues
Wounds and Healing
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