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UCONN HEALTH CENTER UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Infectious Diseases Intercity Grand Rounds

  • Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Health Center, Immunology Conference Room, L3094 Presentation: Global Medicine - Guest Speaker: Kevin Dieckhaus, MD, FIDSA, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Associate Professor of Medicine. This presentation will be of interest to a broad audience (students, researchers, and other health professionals).

  • Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes

  • Saturday, October 1, 2011 Bristol, CT Did you know that 1 in 3 children in the United States face a future with diabetes? The Association works everyday to change the frightening future that diabetes has in store, but we need your help. Please make a donation or join our team.

  • National Primary Care Week - Retreat

  • Saturday, October 15, 2011 from 3pm - 9pm Dr. Gould's cabin in the Berkshire mountains Kickoff National Primary Care Week with a retreat to the Berkshire mountains. More information available at: http://publichealth.uconn.edu/npcw.php or e-mail Shannon McClure @ smcclure@uchc.edu

  • Health Center Library Open House

  • Thursday, October 20, 2011 from 12pm - 3pm Greater Hartford Campus, Health Center - LMS Library Come visit the Lym Maynard Stowe Library at the University of Connecticut Health Center and see what the library can offer you. We will have vendor representatives to answer your questions about specific databases, a tour of the newly renovated study space in the library, food, fun and raffle prizes.

  • 2011 Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Public Health Association

  • Friday, October 21, 2011 from 8am - 4pm The Aqua Turf Club Admission Fee = $100 The mission of the Connecticut Public Health Association (CPHA) is to represent and unite the diverse expertise of Connecticut's public health professionals, to ameliorate the most pressing public health issues in the state, and to promote health and safe living for the people of Connecticut. CPHA works to promote and protect the public's health through advocacy; education; program,...

  • 2011 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

  • Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011 at 11am Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is more than just the name of a walk; it describes the progress we're making together to end breast cancer. However, nothing can describe the hope inspired by walking with hundreds or thousands of others who share a passion for ending this disease. Because nearly everyone has been touched by breast cancer in some way, we've decided to make a difference by walking and raising money as a...

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