The Living Healthy With Arthritis community outreach and public education program focuses on healthy lifestyle education and patient empowerment while living with arthritis. The lecture series features a wide range of topics utilizing both community speakers and medical and health professionals from the University of Arizona.
Monthly lectures are free and open to the public. Prior registration is required. Lectures are held from 6:00 – 7:15 p.m., in the DuVal Auditorium (room 2600) at Banner - University Medical Center Tucson, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., unless otherwise noted. The DuVal Auditorium is located on the hospital's main level, just right of the main lobby. Lectures are held on the first Wednesday of the following months: September, October, November, March, April and May. For more information, please email livinghealthy@arthritis.arizona.edu or call (520) 626-5040. These programs are supported by the Susan and Saul Tobin Endowment for Research and Education in Rheumatology.
Thank you to all who joined us for the Fall/Winter 2018 Living Healthy With Arthritis Lecture Series.
The next event offered in the Living Healthy With Arthritis series is the
2019 LHWA Annual Conference on Saturday, February, 16, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
at Banner - University Medical Center, Tucson
For more information, please click here.
Spring 2019 Living Healthy With Arthritis Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson
DuVal Auditorium
The Future of Bone and Cartilage Regeneration
John Szivek, PhD
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, UA College of Medicine - Tucson
William and Sylvia Rubin Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Research
Director, Robert G. Volz, MD, Orthpaedic Research Laboratory
David S. Margolis, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, UA College of Medicine - Tucson
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson
DuVal Auditorium
Inflammation Nation
Floyd H. (Ski) Chilton, PhD
Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Director, Precision Wellness Initiative
Associate Director, The BIO5 Institute
The University of Arizona
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
Location TBA
Keeping Joint Pain at Bay
An Orthopaedic Surgeon's Inside Look at Knee, Hip and Shoulder Pain
Michael D. Feldman, MD
Director, Sports Medicine, UA Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson