Saturday, October 14, 2000
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Richardson Lecture Hall D1.502
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
This program will introduce cardiovascular disease, focusing on hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure, and new treatments. This will lead into our next mini-symposium on Transplantation, which will focus on the heart.
Speakers
Introduction and Hypertension
Nina Radford, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Transcriptional Analysis of Heart Disease
Ralph Shohet, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Heart Failure
Mark Drazner, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Reynolds Project
Stanley Watkins, M.D.
Reynolds Project Fellow
A light meal will be served before the evening's program. A certificate of completion will be provided for purposes of professional development credit. Please check with your school district to determine if credit will be accepted for this event.
Related Links
1) Mayo Clinic: Heart Center http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/common/htm/heartpg.htm
This informative site offers a wonderful look at the heart via the Interactive Heart Guide(http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9902/htm/heart/heart.htm), a Blood Pressure Tracker, News Briefs, a Heart Knowledge Quiz (http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/common/htm/heartquiz.htm), an Ask The Mayo Physician, and a personal story about a heart attack. The Reference Articles (http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/common/htm/heartpg2.htm) are filled with an array of informative stories and interactive guides to procedures.
2) DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company http://www.cardioliving.com/consumer/consumer_main.htm
Learn more about basic medical information, how to Check Your Pulse, The Difference in a Woman's Heart, and an interesting virtual tour inside the heart. It also has a video of how to conduct a cardiovascular exam.
3) UPMC Presbyterian: Cardiovascular Institute http://www.upmc.edu/cardiology/green/Congestive%20Heart%20Failure/chfpatienteducation.asp
Read more about the basics of Congestive Heart Failure, including causes, testing, and treatment.
4) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/index.htm
This site is a great resource for information on heart and vascular diseases, lung diseases, blood diseases, and sleep disorders for the general public and health care professionals. They are also a resource for understanding Hypertension or High Blood Pressure.
5) Eclipse Surgical Technologies http://www.eclipsesurg.com/
See and Read more about TMR (http://www.eclipsesurg.com/tmr.html) and PTMR (http://www.eclipsesurg.com/ptmr.html), surgical procedures on the heart.
6) Health Watch, UTSW Library, Heart/Circulation http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/library/consubj/cardio.htm
Read about a wide variety of information on the Heart and Circulation.
7) The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Division of Cardiology http://cardiology.swmed.edu/ryburn
Find out about current information and research being conducted by Cardiologists from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
8) The Heart: An Online Exploration http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
Lots of great materials. Includes information on development of the heart, circulation, diet, health, disease, and more. Even includes graphics and a short video clip of a heart bypass surgery. Prepared for the Franklin Institute Science Museum.
9) Body Atlas of Heart from Blue Cross / Blue Shield http://www.bluecares.com/guide/heart.html
This page has a great graphic of the heart and all its parts, with definitions.
10) National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
This website for the US Department of Health and Human Services is a wonderful starting point for searches about health information.
Classroom Activities
Activity Exchange: "Travel Brochure of the Body System" by Faye Cascio : Cooperative Learning activity in which students produce a travel brochure with a tour through each of 8 body systems. They also must choose one system to make a working model to show the class. http://www.accessexcellence.org/atg/data/released/0285-FayeCascio/description.html
Activity Exchange : "Heart Engineering Activity" by Jeff Dodds: This activity works well at the end of a human heart discovery unit. It is at the synthesis level of Bloom's cognitive hierarchy of learning. Students use their knowledge of the human heart and create a new heart with slight variations in anatomical structure. Students are given a story about an alien nation who suffer from hearts which fail early in their lives asked to design an artificial heart which will help these aliens extend their life expectancy. http://www.accessexcellence.org/atg/data/released/0495-JeffDodds/description.html
Activity Exchange: The Heart and the Circulatory System (http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/AEC/CC/heart_background.html) by Roger E. Phillips, Jr.- This page gives a great background (http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/AEC/CC/heart_background.html) of the heart and circulatory system. After the article, you can access an informative description of the anatomy (http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/AEC/CC/heart_anatomy.html), heart activities (http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/AEC/CC/heart_activities.html), and other resources (http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/AEC/CC/heart_resources.html).
NASA: The Brain in Space : A Teacher's Guide with Activities for Neuroscience This guide has a great activity and lesson for measuring blood flow in the chapter titled Autonomic Nervous System Regulation. http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Life.Science/Educator.Guides.and.Activities/The.Brain.in.Space/.index.html
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