Past Events
Okanagan Health Forum - 2007
The Okanagan Health Forum (OHF) - 2007 featured three highly acclaimed speakers who shared their knowledge and cutting edge research in lifestyle medicine. OHF 2007 featured events for physicians, health professionals, and the general public.
Speakers
Dr. David Jenkins, founder of the Glycemic Index and the Portfolio Diet, is one of the world's leading experts on the topic of nutrition and chronic disease. As Canadian Research Chair in Metabolism and Nutrition at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital, he has published numerous peer reviewed research articles which have proven the efficacy of plant-based diets in the prevention and reversal of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, author, and one of North America's leading experts on nutritional medicine. He addresses the general public, other physicians, and has lectured for the American Heart Association and the U.S. Olympic Team. He has appeared in hundreds of magazines, radio, and television shows including: Good Morning America, The Today Show and the Discovery Channel. His best-selling book, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss has gone through 17 printings and several foreign language translations. His recent works include Disease Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right and the newly released Cholesterol Protection for Life.
Brenda Davis, Registered Dietitian, is an internationally acclaimed speaker and clinical nutrition specialist, best-selling author of five books, including Defeating Diabetes, and past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association. Ms. Davis is currently working as the Nutrition Director and Health Educator of a diabetes research intervention project in the Marshall Islands. Preliminary results have clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of lifestyle medicine for the treatment and reversal of type 2 diabetes---a disease affecting close to 40% of the adult Marshallese population. Brenda Davis will be speaking at the Health Professionals' Forums only.
Events
Okanagan Health Forum - 2007 featured three highly acclaimed speakers, who shared their knowledge and cutting edge research with local physicians, dietitians, nurses and other health professionals in February, 2007. Okanagan Health Forum public presentations were offered in Kelowna and Penticton.
Physician Grand Rounds
Penticton Regional Hospital & Kelowna General Hospital
- Dr. David Jenkins
Clinical Implications of Low Glycemic Index Diets in the Treatment of Diabetes and Chronic Disease
Family Practice Physician Rounds
Kelowna Regional Hospital
- Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Disease-Proofing Children
Health Professionals' Forums
Penticton Health Centre and Kelowna General Hospital,
- Dr. David Jenkins
The Portfolio Diet: Implications for the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease - Brenda Davis
Defeating Diabetes: Lessons from the Marshall Islands - Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Disease-Proofing Children
Okanagan Health Forum - Public Events
Community Centre Cleland Theatre, Penticton and Kelowna Community Theatre, Kelowna
- Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Eat to Live: Achieve Superior Health & Longevity, Lose Weight, Prevent and Reverse Disease! - Dr. David Jenkins
The Portfolio Diet: The Drug-like Power of Lifestyle to Reduce Heart Disease
Presentation for Presenting/Platinum Sponsors
Kelowna General Hospital
- Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Nutritional Excellence: The Solution to Rising Healthcare Costs!
