Men and their loved ones are invited to attend a seminar on how to improve their health and lifestyle by attending NYU Winthrop Hospital’s 2017 Men’s Health Seminar on Saturday, June 17. The event will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Garden City Hotel (45 7th Street, Garden City).
The seminar will include a number of lectures and workshops for men and women, addressing conditions such as prostate cancer, prevention of heart disease, stroke and cancer, sexual dysfunction, diabetes and high blood pressure and more. Parallel tracks of workshops are being offered in the afternoon, with an opportunity for attendees to choose which sessions they would like to attend. Participants will also be encouraged to engage in interactive “Ask the Doctor” sessions.
The keynote speaker is Joel Fuhrman, MD, board-certified family physician, six-time New York Times best-selling author and president of the Nutritional Research Foundation, who will explain the benefits of good nutrition during the morning session. Fuhrman is an expert on nutrition and natural healing, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional methods. Some of his books include The End of Dieting, How to Live for Life, Eat to Live Cookbook and The End of Diabetes.
The course director for the event is Aaron E. Katz, MD, chairman of the department of urology at NYU Winthrop Hospital. In addition to hosting “Katz’s Corner” a weekly call-in radio show which focuses on men’s health, broadcast on Sundays at 7 a.m. on 77 WABC radio, Katz is a leader in the field of minimally invasive therapies for prostate cancer. He is an advocate of, and practices, integrative medicine, which combines the scientific advances of conventional medicine with traditional and scientifically validated alternative therapies. Katz will be joined by a panel of experts to offer an informative, interactive seminar for the community.
The fee for the event is $50 per attendee and includes a continental breakfast, lunch and two refreshment breaks. Visit www.menshealthseminar.com to view the agenda and to register.
