Darwin Labarthe Lecture: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Next up from the Penn Positive Health Lecture Series is a talk by Dr. Darwin Labarthe on cardiovascular disease prevention. As part of his lecture, Dr. Labarthe will explore the contributions that new prevention strategies, social determinants of health and positive health may play in cardiovascular disease prevention.

Dr. Labarthe is the Director of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the CDC. The second edition of is text, Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Global Challenge, will be released in March 2010.

The lecture series is part of the Positive Health project which is funded by the Pioneer Portfolio and led by Dr. Martin Seligman of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

If you have the opportunity to attend we'd love for you to share your thoughts.

Here are the details

Date - Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Time - 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Location - Dunlop Auditorium, which is in Stemmler Hall at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia

Free and Open to the Public