Category: Health & Fitness
State Rep. Dave Yaccarino – On Hunger, Homelessness and Early Education
[box]by State Rep. Dave Yaccarino[/box] Homelessness and hunger are struggles our society deals with every day. While many of us are fortunate to never experience this reality, it is far too convenient to forget those who …
Clinical psychologist and author Margo Maine to discuss body image as part of Quinnipiac University’s Campus Cross Talk series
Margo Maine, clinical psychologist and author, will discuss body image as part of Quinnipiac University’s Campus Cross Talk series. Maine will present the lecture “The Body Myth: Part 1,” about the obsessions people have with food and …
Quinnipiac University School of Nursing to induct more than 100 students into international honor society at March 22 ceremony
[box]Linda Honan Pellico, associate professor at the Yale School of Nursing.[/box] Linda Honan Pellico, associate professor at the Yale University School of Nursing, will discuss “The Looking is Not Seeing and Listening is Not Hearing …
ASAP Urgent Care Offers Colon Cancer Risk Assessment
One of the deadliest cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United States – depending upon where it starts, it can be referred to as …
Author of ‘Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer’ to speak at Quinnipiac University’s North Haven Campus March 18
[box]Shannon Brownlee, author of the groundbreaking book “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.”[/box] Shannon Brownlee, author of the groundbreaking book “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and …
Dr. Holly Atkinson of HealthiNation to discuss ‘Five Keys to Optimal Health’ at Quinnipiac University’s North Haven Campus April 8
[box]Dr. Holly Atkinson, medical correspondent and editor at HealthiNation, a digital health network, will speak at Quinnipiac University’s North Haven Campus, 370 Bassett Road, North Haven, on April 8.[/box] Dr. Holly Atkinson, medical correspondent and …
President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation presses for more united health care delivery and education systems during Quinnipiac University talk
[box]Dr. George Thibault, president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, discusses health care education at Quinnipiac University’s Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in North Haven. (Mark Stanczak, Quinnipiac University).[/box] Dr. George Thibault, president of the Josiah …
Gaylord Specialty Healthcare Forms Five-Year Clinical Affiliation with Quinnipiac University School of Medicine
Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, a long-term acute care hospital located in Wallingford, Conn. has formed a five-year clinical affiliation with The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. “We are honored to be part …
North Haven resident appointed clinical skills director at Quinnipiac University
Dr. Aaron Bernard, of North Haven, has been appointed clinical skills director at Quinnipiac University. In his new position, Bernard oversees Quinnipiac’s new Standardized Patient Assessment Center in the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences …
Quinnipiac University physician assistant students volunteer time, skills as urban health scholars
[box]Richard Bottner, a Quinnipiac University physician assistant student, is an urban health scholar.[/box] Eighteen Quinnipiac University students in the physician assistant program are spending the year improving the lives of the medically underserved, urban populations in Connecticut as urban …
Neurogenesis researcher to deliver keynote at NEURON Conference Feb. 23 at Quinnipiac University
[box]Amelia Eisch, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, will present the keynote address during the NEURON Conference at Quinnipiac University’s Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in North …
National and state experts to converge at Quinnipiac University for Concussion Conference Jan. 31
National and local experts on treating concussions will converge at the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences on Quinnipiac University’s North Haven Campus from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, for “The Concussion …