Drs. Hani El-Gabalawy and David Robinson invite you to attend the 34th annual Metro Ogryzlo Memorial Lecture scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, 2013 in the Frederic Gaspard Theatre of the Basic Medical Sciences Building at 8 – 9 a.m. This presentation will be linked to St. Boniface Hospital in room NG002, and via Manitoba TeleHealth to Victoria Hospital (4th floor CTU room), Grace Hospital (Lecture Room B), and Riverview Health Centre (Classroom B).
Our dynamic and inspiring speaker, Dr. Esther M. Sternberg is internationally recognized for her discoveries in brain-immune interactions and the effects of the brain’s stress response on health and illness: the science of the mind-body connection.
Physician and Medical Researcher, Dr. Sternberg’s discoveries have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. She has found that “the brain’s hormonal response to stress plays a role in the body’s susceptibility to autoimmune inflammatory disease, and to how severe it becomes”.
Dr. Sternberg received her MD and training in Rheumatology at McGill University. She was on faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo, (1980-86); Senior Scientist in the National Institutes of Health in Maryland (1986-2012) and is Research Professor at American University in Washington, D.C. She recently joined the University of Arizona’s Center for Integrative Medicine as the first Director of Research at the Integrative Medicine Center in Tucson.
Author of numerous original scientific and review articles published in leading scientific journals including Nature Medicine, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Scientific American, J. Clinical Investigation and Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sternberg is also a reviewer, editorial board member for many scientific journals, editor of several books, author of two best-selling popular books about her research “The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Heath” and “Emotions and Healing Spaces: the Science of Place and Well-being” and host of the PBS special “The Science of Healing”.
The National Library of Medicine has named Dr. Sternberg one of 300 female physicians who have changed the face of medicine.
Karen Kiel
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