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The Professional Staff Senate’s Staff Development and Services Committee will present its biannual conference, “Turning Stress Into Strength,” from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 30 in the Niagara Falls Conference Center, Old Falls Street in Niagara Falls.
The keynote speaker will be personal trainer and motivational speaker Debbie Mandel, who will present two breakout sessions: “How to Shake Off a Bad Mood” and “Changing Habits with Kaizen.”
A stress-management specialist and radio talk show host, Mandel is author of “Turn On Your Inner Light: Fitness for Body, Mind and Soul” and “Changing Habits: The Caregivers’ Total Workout.” She is the creator of an educational Web site, Turn On Your Inner Light.com.
Also speaking at the conference will be Kathie Frier, director of the Wellness and Work/Life Balance unit in Human Resource Services, who will present “Top 10 Ways to Achieve Work/Life Balance,” and Bob Orrange, associate director of career services, who will present a humor-filled “Improving Your Presentation Skills.”
Other workshop topics include “Laugh for the Health of It,” “Stress Management Through Attitude Change,” “Dressing by Objective” and “Laughter: The New Stress Buster.”
Registration is $40 for UB affiliates and $55 for non-UB affiliates before May 15. After May 15, the cost is $50 and $65. For more information, click here or call the Professional Staff Senate office at 645-2003.
Roizen to speak at Spring Clinical Day
Buffalo native Michael F. Roizen, best-selling author, cohost of “Discovery Health,” co-founder of RealAge Inc., and chairman of its scientific advisory board, will be the featured speaker at the 2008 Spring Clinical Day sponsored by the UB Medical Alumni Association.
The event will take place on Saturday in the Marriott Hotel, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst. Roizen’s lecture is titled “You: Staying Young.”
The program, which is open to the public, will begin at 10 a.m. with registration and self-administered “RealAge” quizzes, followed by Roizen’s speech at 11 a.m. and lunch at 12:15 p.m. The cost is $40 per person.
Roizen was awarded the Best Wellness Book of the Year in 1999 by Books for a Better Life for his first general audience book, “RealAge: Are You as Young as You Can Be?” which became a New York Times best-seller.
His follow-up, “The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat,” written with John La Puma, became a New York Times best-seller in 2001. His most recent books, “You: The Owner’s Manual”; “You: The Smart Patient”; and “You: On a Diet,” were written with Mehmet C. Oz. All have debuted as best-selling books.
In addition to his media career, Roizen is chair of the Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Management and Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic.
To register, contact Jennifer Lobaugh at jlobaugh@buffalo.edu or 829-2773.
Free tax prep at UB brings $235,000 back to WNY
Over the past 10 weeks, 138 IRS-certified accounting students from the School of Management brought nearly $235,000 in tax refunds back into the Buffalo community through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.
UB’s chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the national honor society for accounting and finance students, led the initiative that provided more than 1,400 hours of tax service, preparing nearly 400 individual tax returns for individuals and families with annual incomes below $40,000.
“We’re especially proud that nearly $44,000 of the total was a result of the Earned Income Credit, which targets low-income families in need of additional financial support,” said Michael Steenberge, a junior in the School of Management and co-chair of Beta Alpha Psi’s VITA committee. “It means that we helped a number of families who needed it most.”
The program was expanded this year to provide services on both the South and North campuses, resulting in a 250 percent increase over last year in the number of returns prepared.
“We could not be more proud of our students and the impact they have made on the community with this initiative,” said John M. Thomas, dean of the School of Management. “Despite their class loads and other responsibilities, these students have been working virtually every weekend since January to make this program the outstanding success that it has been.”
HSL group to sponsor lecture
John J. Halperin, a world-renowned authority on Lyme disease, will speak at the 32nd annual meeting of the Friends of the Health Sciences Library, to be held May 16 in the Health Sciences Library, Abbott Hall, South Campus.
Halperin, medical director of neuroscience for Atlantic Health System and clinical professor of neurology at New York University Medical School, will deliver the 17th annual C.K. Huang Lecture, entitled “Lyme Disease: Facts and Myths.” The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Austin Flint Main Reading Room of the HSL.
A graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School, Halperin chaired the group that authored the American Academy of Neurology guidelines for the treatment and diagnosis of Lyme disease.
The Friends of the Health Sciences Library meeting will open with a buffet dinner from 6-7 p.m. in the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection, B5 Abbott Hall. A reception for Halperin will be held in B5 Abbott immediately following his presentation.
The cost of the event is $16 for members of the Friends of the Health Sciences Library, $18 for nonmembers and $9 for students.
For more information regarding registration for the event, contact Linda Lohr at 829-3900, ext. 136, or lalohr@buffalo.edu by May 12.