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Women's Health Today Women's Health Today is a series of talks on contemporary topics in women's health. Programs are webcast live and audience members (on-line and in person) are invited to submit questions to speakers. In addition, talks are available for future online viewing or as podcasts.
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Positive Emotion in the Midst of Stress: It’s not Crazy, It’s Adaptive! Stress is ubiquitous and a fact of life we can’t avoid. Not surprisingly, research and practice has focused almost exclusively on the negative emotional and physical consequences of stress. It may seem that there is nothing you can do about the tensions in your life! However, the good news is that recent work points to the unique importance of positive emotions in coping with stress and reducing the toll it has on our psychological and physical well being. Dr. Moskowitz will identify the beneficial effects of positive emotion and suggest empirically supported ways to increase positive emotion, and, as a result, assist you to cope better with the anxiety and strains of daily life and work. Judith Moskowitz, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of Medicine and the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Dartmouth, and her MPH in Epidemiology from UC Berkeley. Her research, funded by NIH, is focused on coping and emotion in the context of chronic stress. In particular, she studies the impact of positive emotion on psychological and physical adjustment to serious illness. Co-sponsored by Student Health and Counseling Services When Bad Things Happen to Good Patients: Protect Yourself and Prevent Medical Errors! Did you know that medical errors are one of the Nation's leading causes of death and injury? The most important way you can protect yourself is to be an active participant in your health care team. Learn the top five things you need to know before you go into the hospital - from the perspective of someone in the trenches – a bedside nurse! Join us for an update on medical errors including regulations, national patient safety goals and how to empower yourself. Kathleen Burke, RN-BC, BSN, is a registered nurse at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco. She holds a BS degree in Nursing from the University of San Francisco and is ANCC board-certified in Pain Management. Her clinical experience spans over 13 years at UCSF and includes bedside nurse, charge nurse, preceptor, case manager, student health nurse, and nurse educator. In addition to her duties at the bedside, she serves as a member and Chair of the UCSF Patient Safety Fellows, a group of bedside nurses and their collaborative colleagues committed to identifying, reporting, and helping to resolve patient safety concerns at UCSF. She considers her patients and their families an essential voice and partner in bringing real change to the safety culture of the current healthcare system. In 2007, she received the UCSF Dept of Nursing award for Excellence in Patient Safety. She is also a graduate of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Integrated Nurse Leadership Program. Weight Loss Dietary Supplements: Truth or Consequences? Women in America are flooded every day with mixed media messages concerning body weight. Amidst fast food advertisements offering convenient and affordable yet unhealthy meals there are commercials highlighting underweight women as the beauty ideal. Women wishing to lose weight are typically faced with hunger and frustration from failed dieting attempts while advertisements about dietary supplements that allow you to eat anything you want and lose weight offer a quick fix. Though society pressures women to conform to an unrealistic body size, maintaining a healthy weight is crucial for optimal health and well-being. This program will review the clinical evidence behind the most popular weight loss ingredients and combinations sold to US consumers and inform you about the risks and benefits. Candy Tsourounis, PharmD, is Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. Her area of research interest involves Dietary Supplements and she has been involved in the field since 1994. She is very passionate about educating the scientific community and the public about dietary supplements. She has authored numerous articles, has contributed meaningful research in this field. Her current research focus is in assessing dietary supplement drug interactions that involve the liver and the cytochrome P450 enzyme system. Recently, Dr. Tsourounis was invited to attend the National Institutes of Health, Dietary Supplement Research Practicum and had the opportunity to share her experiences and opinions with legislators, regulators and the industry. She has established a strong reputation in this area and has been asked to speak on this topic at local, statewide and national educational programs. Co-sponsored by the Student Enrichment Series Generations at Risk? Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health A rapidly expanding body of research indicates that many reproductive health problems may be caused by exposure to chemicals that are widely dispersed in our environment and with which we come into contact on a daily basis. These problems include infertility, miscarriage, poor pregnancy outcomes, abnormal fetal development, early puberty, endometriosis, and diseases and cancers of reproductive organs. Phthalates, Bisphenol A, Teflon, and pesticides are a few of the chemicals that are highlighted in media stories and public policy debates due to increasing evidence of ubiquitous exposures in the population and potential health risks, particularly when exposures occur during vulnerable periods of development. Join Dr. Woodruff for an information discussion of the latest science and how you might be affected. Tracey J. Woodruff, Ph.D., M.P.H. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF and the Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. She has done extensive research and policy development on environmental health issues, with a particular emphasis on early-life development. Her research areas include perinatal health effects from air pollution, developing the first national characterization of air toxics across the US, children’s health risks, and environmental health indicators. She has authored numerous scientific publications and was previously at the US EPA, where she was a senior scientist and policy advisor in the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation. She is an Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Health Perspectives. Dr. Woodruff received her Ph.D. and M.P.H. in the environmental health sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and completed a Pew Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies. Co-sponsored by the Student Enrichment Series and Student Health and Counseling Services How Do I Love Thee? Traditionally, sexual orientation has been seen as a stable and fixed trait, and male and female sexual orientations have been viewed as “two sides of the same coin.” In this talk, Lisa Diamond will challenge these views, on the basis of her ongoing 14-year longitudinal study of female sexuality. The findings provide powerful evidence that female sexuality may be distinct from male sexuality in its capacity for fluidity over time and across different situations and relationships Specifically, women are more likely to experience attractions to both sexes than exclusive same-sex attractions; women often undergo unexpected changes in their sexual urges and feelings of affection over time; and the process of falling in love can prompt some women to develop new desires that contradict their overall sexual orientation. These findings suggest provocative new understandings of female sexual orientation in particular, but also human sexuality more generally. Lisa M. Diamond is Associate Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah and received her Ph.D. in Human Development from Cornell University in 1999. Her research interests fall into two areas: (1) adolescent and young adult social and sexual development, particularly the development of female sexual identity and orientation over the life course; (2) the formation, functioning, and psychobiology of adolescent and adult attachment relationships, with special attention to the health-protective and emotion-regulating functions of these relationships, as well as dynamic systems models of coregulatory processes in such relationships. She is the recipient of grants from the W.T. Grant Foundation, the National Institutes of Mental Health, the Wayne F. Placek Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Her 2008 book, Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire, published by Harvard University Press, was awarded an Independent Publishers Book Award, as well as the Distinguished Book award from the American Psychological Association’s Society for the Study of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered Issues. Co-sponsored by the LGBT Resource Center and Student Enrichment Series
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