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Women's Health Symposium
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The Women’s Health Symposium Committee is proud to announce that the planning for the Spring 09 event is underway. It is titled “Wellness at Home”: This year the event will be presented as a dual track program for the public subtitled; “what every family member should know” and for the professional subtitled; “helping your patients help themselves”. The goal of the symposium is to empower women to take a more active role in the care of themselves and their loved ones by teaching them simple techniques to remedy and / or prevent specific common maladies at home.
Further, the symposium aims to educate professionals on how to interact with patients is a way that is empowering while educating them about self care and preventive measures. We believe the time is now for a new paradigm in practitioner / patient relations and that teamwork is the key. Our speakers and panel members are experts in the fields of medicine, nutrition, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine. They understand and promote the importance of patient education and accountability. The limits of good health go as far as the patient chooses. The WHS believes that together, practitioners and patients can chart a new course in healthcare.
Wellness at Home
What Every Family Member Should Know
Helping Your Patients Help Themselves |
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Mary Balliett, DC, MSACN
A 1976 graduate of Cornell University, Dr. Balliett received a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a concentration in biochemistry. While attending Cornell’s master’s program in biochemical nutrition, she left to enroll at NYCC, where she completed her Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1988. She was in private practice from 1991 to 2006 and is currently the acting dean of NYCC’s School of Applied Clinical Nutrition, where she was a member of the first graduating class in July of 2008. |
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Donna Finando, MS, LAc, LMT
Ms. Finando earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1969, her Diploma in Acupuncture from the Tri-State Institute for Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in 1991, and her Bachelor of Professional Studies/Master of Science in Acupuncture from the Tri-State College of Acupuncture in 2000. She is licensed to practice acupuncture in the state of New York, and holds licenses in massage in both New York and Florida. Ms. Finando has co-authored a number of pieces on the ancient art of Oriental healing and trigger point therapy. She has taught at Tri-State College of Acupuncture, Touro College of Health Sciences School of Physical Therapy, and Mercy College of Oriental Medicine. She also served as the dean of clinical and Oriental sciences at the New Center for Wholistic Health, Education and Research in Manhasset, N.Y. She maintains a private practice in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. |
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Natali Cher, MD, DO
Dr. Cher holds medical degrees from St. Petersburg Medical University in St. Petersburg, Russia (1993) and from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (2003). She is certified by the American Board of Osteopathic Family Practitioners and is licensed to practice medicine by the State of New York. Dr. Cher is a family practice physician in Massapequa, N.Y., was a resident at Nassau County Medical Center and has participated in a Traditional Osteopathic Internship with Massapequa General Hospital in Seaford, N.Y. Her professional affiliations include the American Osteopathic Association and the American College of Osteopathic Family Practitioners. |
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Jason Wright, MS, LAc, NCCAOM
Mr. Wright earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Oriental Medicine from Bastyr University in Seattle in 1994 and completed his Master of Science degree in Acupuncture at Bastyr in 1996. He served as Bastyr’s first-ever Acupuncture Clinical Resident from 1996-1997. He has been licensed with private practices in Seattle, Colorado, and upstate New York. Mr. Wright has served as a faculty member for Bastyr and the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine, and is an assistant professor at NYCC. |
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Robert Ruddy, BS, DC
Prior to graduation from NYCC in 1996, Dr. Ruddy earned his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Nutrition from New England College in 1980. An assistant professor at NYCC, Dr. Ruddy serves as senior clinician for the Seneca Falls Health Center, and teaches postgraduate courses in the areas of nutrition and orthopedics. |
Purpose Statement
The Women's Health Symposium (WHS) provides education in healthcare and treatment options, delivered by leading experts, in effective and enjoyable ways in order to deepen and broaden the knowledge base of women in our local community and beyond.
Vision
The WHS programs provide information on alternative health choices generally not found in a doctor’s office, hospital, or insurance brochures. Our aim is to focus the attendees' thinking on health maintenance and disease prevention. We also aspire to encourage women to take the leading role and primary responsibility for their own, as well as their families’, personal health. The WHS provides women with the tools and encouragement to assist their loved ones in making informed choices, be it in their role as mother, wife, daughter, sister, grandmother or friend.
Values
Since 1919, the mission of the New York Chiropractic has been to provide quality education and healthcare, both to students and to the community at large. The WHS is an extension of this commitment, providing valuable, quality education to our community, serving as a resource and support network, and advancing alternative and integrative healthcare in our society.
The importance of health education cannot be understated … knowledge is empowering. The WHS provides education in healthcare on a variety of topics that are most sought by women. Each year we create an event that is both educational and fun in the hope that women will achieve a new understanding and perspective of what it means to create and maintain good health. It is the goal of the New York Chiropractic College and Women’s Health Symposium Committee to help women gain a valuable experience that will serve them and their loved ones in the days and years ahead. Our mission is to:
- Provide women with dependable information on alternative health choices generally not found in a doctor's office, hospital, or insurance brochures.
- Assist women in focusing their thinking on health maintenance, disease prevention and building strong bodies.
- Encourage women to take the leading role and primary responsibility for their own and their families' personal health.
- Support women in their role as caretaker. Whether that is as mother, wife, daughter, sister, grandmother, friend, or all of these roles, the WHS provides them with the tools and encouragement to help their loved ones make informed choices and make a difference.
WHS Leadership Team
Darlene Easton M.S. L.Ac: WHS Director
Irene Millis: WHS Co-Director
Victoria Baroody: WHS Committee Member
Kathy Hadley: WHS Committee Member
Jill Henry: WHS Committee Member
Shelley Stuck: WHS Support Member
Peggy Van Kirk: WHS Committee Member
NYCC Facilities Staff: WHS Support Members
Sodexho Staff: WHS Support Members
Past WHS topics
- Strong Bones for Life (February 21, 2004)
- Nourishing Your Body, Nourishing Your Life; A Celebration of Nutritional Health (June 5, 2004)
- A Woman's Passage: A Holistic Approach for Every Age (November 6, 2004)
- Stress: Learning to Let Go (June 25, 2005)
- “Feel Great! Look Great! and… Lose Weight!” (March 25, 2006)
- Food and Mood - How Food Affects Your State of Mind (March 24, 2007)
- Supplements for Side Effects (March 29, 2008)
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