This Week's Topics
- Translating Identity Conference
- Family Medicine Grand Rounds: High-Yield Cognitive Behavior Therapy Methods for Primary Care
- Transgender Voice Orientation
- Laura Mann Integrative Healthcare Lecture: Opioids and Chronic Pain
- Open House for Prospective Graduate Students
- Flu Vaccine Clinics
- Committee on Inclusive Excellence Call for Membership
- PCA Opportunities
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Further Details
Translating Identity Conference
The Translating Identity Conference (TIC) explores topics in discourses regarding gender and transgender identities, expressions, communities, and intersections. The largest conference of its kind in New England, TIC is a free, student organized, non-profit conference that seeks to reach not only the University of Vermont and the Burlington community, but the nation as a whole. Saturday, Oct. 14, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Dudley H. Davis Center. Learn more >>
Family Medicine Grand Rounds: High-Yield Cognitive Behavior Therapy Methods for Primary Care
With Jesse H, Wright, M.D., Ph.D., principal author of eight books and the first multimedia computer program for treatment of depression. Dr. Wright is the Kolb Endowed Chair in Outpatient Psychiatry and Director of the Depression Center at the University of Louisville. Monday, Oct. 16, 8-9 a.m., Davis Auditorium. Learn more >>
Transgender Voice Orientation
Dr. Nancy Gauvin hosts Dr. Jack Pickering, co-director of the Transgender Voice and Communication Program at the College of St. Rose, in an orientation to UVM's transgender voice therapy group. The event is free and open to the public. Health care providers and members of the transgender community and their families are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Friday, Oct. 27, 6-8 p.m., Chittenden Bank Room, Dudley H. Davis Center. Learn more >>
Laura Mann Integrative Healthcare Lecture: Opioids and Chronic Pain - Cultural Myopia and the Big Picture
Tracy Jackson, M.D., associate professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Pain Medicine of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, describes the risk factors for the development of chronic pain from childhood onward in the context of the current opioid epidemic. Monday, Oct. 30, 8-9 a.m., Davis Auditorium. Learn more >>
Open House for Prospective Graduate Students
Learn about CNHS graduate programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Medical Laboratory Science, Nursing, Physical Therapy and Human Functioning and Rehabilitation Science. November 3. RSVP requested. Learn more >>
Flu Vaccine Clinics
Walk-in flu vaccine clinics for students will be held at Living Well in the Davis Center on November 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Cost is $21, which willl be billed to your UVM account. Learn more >>
Committee on Inclusive Excellence Call for Membership
The CNHS Committee on Inclusive Excellence applies the tenets in UVM’s Our Common Ground for diversity engagement across the College and identifies and recommends best practices to enhance inclusive excellence in teaching. If you are interested in or have questions about topics of racial/ethnic diversity, disability/ability, white privilege, and/or gender identity and sexual orientation, please join the committee. Contact Vanessa Santos Eugenio: veugenio@uvm.edu.
PCA Opportunities
The College of Nursing and Health Sciences posts PCA opportunities on behalf of members of the local community.