7th Annual Men's Health Symposium

Continuing Progress: New Gains, New Challenges

(All files in .pdf format)
 

8:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mario Motta, MD,  President, MMS
 
8:10 a.m.

Committee on Men's health: Reflection and Vision
Arnold Robbins, MD, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center
 

8:20 a.m.

The Y Chromosome: Carry at Your Own Risk (16 pages, 294 kb)
David C. Dodson, MD, Chair, MMS Committee on Men's Health
 

9:00 a.m.

Men's Health as Idiom - Understanding Community Distress in Overtown and Beyond (14 pages, 204 kb)
April M. W. Young, PhD, Director, Community Services Collins Center for Public Policy, Miami, Florida
   

9:40 a.m.Men's Health: Assessing and Addressing the Needs (21 pages, 592 kb)
John M. Auerbach, MBA, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
 
10:00 a.m. Panel Discussion
 
10:45 a.m.Everything You Must Know About Sleep but are Too Tired to Ask (13 pages, 505 kb) 
James B. Maas, PhD, Professor and past chairman, Department of Psychology, Cornell University
 
11:35 a.m.Prevention of Chronic Disease Through Diet (82 pages, 7.11 mb)
Paulette D. Chandler, MD, Associate Physician in Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
 
1:15 p.m. Prostate Cancer Screening - Risks and Benefits Across the Ages (19 pages, 124 kb)
Michael J. Barry, MD, Medical Director of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital
 
2:05 p.m.Use Of Testosterone In Men With Prostate Cancer (17 pages, 464 kb)
Abraham Morgentaler, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Urology, Harvard Medical School
 
2:50 p.m.Conference Wrap-Up

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