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OHSU Teacher Training Workshop!
April 16, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
What:
Brain Awareness Teacher Workshop
Where:
Collaborative Life Sciences Building
Atrium and 1st Floor Lecture Hall
2730 SW Moody, Portland, OR 97201
When:
Saturday April 16th, 9-3
We’ll have a table at this event similar to what we had at the OMSI brain fair. Everyone who comes will also be able to attend the lectures and presentations at the event. Limited to 15 volunteers so let us know if you’re interested as soon as you can…
Brain Awareness Teacher Workshop
Sponsored by OHSU’s Office of Science Education Opportunities, The Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness and the OHSU Brain Institute
A special day for classroom teachers featuring presentations on the adolescent brain and early-life nutrition and a highly interactive resource fair.
2016 Brain Awareness Lecture Series Healthy Pleasures, Unhealthy Habits
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Collaborative Life Sciences Building
Atrium and 1st Floor Lecture Hall
2730 SW Moody, Portland, OR 97201
The theme for Brain Awareness Season 2016 revolves around “Healthy Pleasures, Unhealthy Habits,” and both Teacher Workshop speakers will touch on how addiction manifests itself in the brains of youth, among other telling research.
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Registration, Networking, Resource Fair, Continental Breakfast
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
The Adolescent Brain
Bonnie Nagel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Oregon Health & Science University
Learn about the field of biological psychology from Dr. Nagel
11:00 – 12:00
Questions and Answers
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Resource Fair
Organizations will present information and opportunities relevant to teachers’ needs in the classroom and beyond. Previous participants included Bob’s Red Mill, NW Noggin, March of Dimes, Brain-in-a-Box curriculum, and Nutrition-in-a-box curriculum. Local venues to purchase lunch include Lovejoy Bakers, Cha Cha Cha, and The Gantry food cart pod.
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
How Early-Life Nutrition Feeds the Obesity Epidemic in Children and Adolescents
Susan P. Bagby, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Nephrology
Division Chair, Community Education & Outreach Committee, Bob and Charlee Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness
Oregon Health & Science University
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Questions and Answers