Eisenberg Travels to UC for Lecture and Fundraising Events

The UC Center for Integrative Health and Wellness welcomes David Eisenberg, MD, associate professor at the Harvard University School of Public Health. to speak at this year's annual Sanghvi Lecture. Eisenberg will present "Nutrition and Mindfullness in an Era of Obesity and Diabetes, at noon, Friday, Sept. 23rd, in Kresge Auditorium.

Through a gift from UC cardiologist Vijay Sanghvi, MD, (1935-2015) an adjunct professor in the division of cardiovascular diseases, and his daughters, UC  created the annual endowed lectureship titled "The Dr. Khushman V. Sanghvi Memorial Lectureship on the Mind-Body Interface in Health and Healing," with the goal of exposing health care professionals and interested community members to the importance and benefit of complementary medicine.

CME credit is available. For more information on the lecture, contact Lisa Doogan,

lisa.doogan@uc.edu

Eisenberg will also speak at events celebrating the opening of Cincinnati's largest local organic farm, Turner Farms of Indian Hill, where they have installed a "teaching kitchen" for educational programs on health and good eating, in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati's Center for Integrative Health and Wellness.

The teaching kitchen will be used to teach classes and will be available to rent for events and meetings. Center personnel can also use the kitchen to teach medical students, nurses, physicians and other health professionals nutritional information, culinary skills, and self-care practices for patients and themselves.

The new kitchen will be unveiled with two dinners, and net proceeds will go to benefit the center. On Sept. 23 is the "Harvest to Healing" dinner for 50 at 5:30pm. Tickets are $500 a person. The next night is the "Seed To Soul" dinner at 5 p.m. to feature a menu by local caterer Jeff Thomas. Tickets are $250 each.

Proceeds from the event benefit the center. 


For more information or to make reservations, please call Ann Ilyinsky at 513-256-5910 or Kathy Cain at 513-924-3367.