October 6, 1997

From: Office of the President
(510) 987-9320

TO: UCOP AND CAMPUS COLLEAGUES

Re: Invitation to attend Wellness Award Lectures

Please join us in October for the seventh year of Wellness Award Lectures on various campuses.

The faculty awardees were selected competitively in response to an annual call for abstracts, issued in the spring. A distinguished universitywide steering committee selects six awardees on the basis of a blind peer review of abstracts. The awardees prepare a paper and present a lecture drawn from the paper on their respective campuses each fall. The Wellness Lectures Program provides an award of $3,000 to each awardee, in addition to $1,000 for research assistance.

The Wellness Lectures are funded by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF). Created in 1992 as a private and independent foundation, TCWF's mission is to improve the health of the people of California through proactive support of health promotion and disease-prevention programs.

Each lecture will be hosted by the chancellor or provost and is free and open to the campus community and public. The lectures are followed by a reception.

Early in 1998, a bound collection of all the lectures will be mailed to policymakers, legislators, and health professionals. Videotapes and audiotapes of the lecture can also be purchased in 1998. The collection of bound lectures is free and available upon request.

Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues via e-mail.

• University of California, Santa Barbara
  Thursday, October 9
  "Beyond Choice: Myths and Facts About Adjustment to Abortion"
  Brenda Major, Ph.D., professor of psychology
  4:30-5:30 p.m. at Corwin Pavilion, University Center

• University of California, Berkeley
  Wednesday, October 15
  "Strategies for Reducing Youth Violence: Media, Community, and Policy"
  Lawrence Wallack, Dr.P.H., professor, School of Public Health
  5-6 p.m. at Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

• University of California, Davis
  Monday, October 20
  "Occupational Injury Among California Migrant Hispanic Farm Workers: Fighting the Invisible Epidemic"
  Stephen A. McCurdy, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of medicine,
  Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
  4-5 p.m. at University Club

• University of California, San Francisco
  Thursday, October 23
  "Mandatory Reporting of Domestic Violence: What Do Patients and Physicians Think?"
  Michael A. Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H., assistant clinical professor, Family and Community Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital
  noon-1 p.m. at Carr Auditorium, SFGH, Family and Community Medicine Grand Rounds

• University of California, Los Angeles
  Tuesday, October 28
  "The Relationship Between Economic Factors and Gang Violence in Los Angeles: Policy Considerations"
  Demetrios N. Kyriacou, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the NPI Auditorium, UCLA, Psychiatry Grand Rounds

• University of California, Berkeley
  Wednesday, October 29
  "Community Participation, Empowerment, and Health: Development of a Wellness Guide for California"
  S. Leonard Syme, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Epidemiology, School of Public Health,
  5-6 p.m. at Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

Irene Bronston, coordinator
Wellness Lectures Program

Zaida Ali, admin specialist
TCWF/UC Wellness Lectures Program

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