Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Agenda for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Colloquium

Thursday, April 13, 2006:

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

8:00 - 8:30 am - Check-in and on-site registration with continental breakfast

8:30 - 8:45 am - Opening Address - Hank Gardner, Interim Vice President for Research

8:45 - 9:00 am - Overview - Mike Pagliassotti, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, CSU

Session I: Integrative and International Research Issues and Strategies

Moderator: Tracy Nelson and Gay Israel, Department of Health and Exercise

9:00 am - Patti Davies, Department of Occupational Therapy, CSU. "Sensory processing disorders and their impact on children and Families: Diagnosis and treatment effectiveness".

9:30 am - Jennifer Anderson, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, CSU. "Strategies to improve health through nutrition education"

10:00 am - Break with light refreshments

10:15 am - Evelinn Borrayo, Department of Psychology, CSU. "Latinas' participation in breast cancer prevention and control activities".

10:45 am - Lynn Kwiatkowski, Department of Anthropology, CSU. "Wife battering, international health and cultural ideologies in Vietnam".

11:15 am - Jennifer Harman, Department of Psychology, CSU. "HIV risk within intimate relationships: Testing a health behavior change model at the dyadic level."

11:35 am - Panel Discussion

Noon - Break

12:15 pm - Lunch Presentations - Moderator Mike Pagliassotti

Don Zimmerman, Department of Journalism and Technology, CSU. "Researching Internet-based health communication, health promotion, disease and injury prevention".

Pamela Thurman, Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention, "Community Readiness".

Session II: Preventing Diseases of the Head, Heart and Liver

Moderator: Christopher Melby, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

1:15 pm - Douglas Ishii, Department of Biomedical Sciences, CSU. "Role of insulin-like factors in dementia and brain shrinkage: Implications for Alzheimer's and Diabetes"

1:45 pm - Deborah Garrity, Department of Biology, CSU. "Zebrafish: A new model organism for the study of cardiac disease"

2:15 pm - Break with light refreshments

2:30 pm - Frank Dinenno, Department of Health and Exercise Science, CSU. "Adrenergic Control of Skeletal Muscle Circulation at Rest and During Exercise in Aging Humans"

3:00 pm - Mike Pagliassotti, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, CSU. "Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A new consequence of the obesity epidemic".

3:20 pm - Panel Discussion

3:45 pm - Break

4:00 - 6:00 pm - Poster Viewing and Social

April 14, 2006:

8:00 am - 2:30 pm

8:00 - 8:45 am - Check-in and on-site registration with continental breakfast

8:45 - 9:00 am - Overview - Mike Pagliassotti

9:00 am - Keynote Address - Stephen Davis, Chief, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and Rudolph Kampmeier Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. "Clinical and research issues related to metabolic diseases".

10:15 am - Break with light refreshments

Session III: Agriculture, Technology and Beyond

Moderator:Dorian Garrick, Department of Animal Sciences

10:30 am - Sarah Ward, Department of Crops and Soil Sciences, CSU. "Quinoa: new uses of an ancient grain"

11:00 am - Henry Thompson, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, CSU. "Crops for health: Developing new approaches for the prevention of cancer"

11:30 am - Hunt Lambert, Associate Vice President, Economic Development, CSU. "Technology transfer and economic development at CSU"

Noon - Phil Ryan, Director Macromolecular Resources, "New 'omics' Technologies".

12:45 pm - Break

1:00 pm - Lunch, Awards Ceremony and Closing