WHEN: |
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
6-7:30 PM |
WHERE: |
Pennsylvania Hospital
Preston Building - Zubrow Auditorium
800 Spruce St.
Phila., PA 19107 |
PHILADELPHIA – This special public health seminar, being held at the nation’s first hospital (founded in 1751) invites women to discover the latest research, diagnostic and treatment strategies to help them better negotiate two of the most serious personal challenges they face throughout their lives: heart and breast health.
This informational seminar features expert clinicians from the Pennsylvania Hospital’s Women’s Cardiovascular Center, Integrated Breast Center, and Joan Karnell Cancer Center. Topics include:
Facing the Unexpected & Often Undetected – Cardiovascular Disease in Women.
Nazanin Moghbeli, MD, the director of the Women’s Cardiovascular Center at Pennsylvania Hospital, will discuss and answer questions regarding heart disease in women from motherhood through menopause.
Education & Prevention: the Way to Optimal Breast Health Care.
Dahlia M. Sataloff, MD, director of the Integrated Breast Center of the Joan Karnell Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital, will discuss and answer questions regarding what women need to know, look for and do regarding benign breast disease and breast cancer.
Free garage parking is available on Delancey St., between 7th & 8th Sts. Participation is FREE, however, registration is recommended. For specific parking locations and building locations maps, please go to: http://www.pennmedicine.org/pahosp/vi_files/.
To register to attend, please call 1.800.789.PENN (7366). To learn more about women’s health, please log onto www.PennMedicine.org/women
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.