Chautauqua Morning Lecture Series To End With Dr. Ruth
8/19/2007 - CHAUTAUQUA — Dr. Ruth Westheimer will be the final morning lecturer for the 2007 season at Chautauqua Institution at 10:45 a.m. Friday in the Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater.
Starting Monday, morning speakers will focus on Healing and Healthy Aging: Nurture and Nature.
Dr. Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who helped to pioneer the field of media psychology with her radio program, ''Sexually Speaking.'' What began in 1980 as a 15-minute taped show that aired after midnight soon became part of a network, which has included television, books, newspapers, games, home video and computer software. Dr. Westheimer is an adjunct professor at N.Y.U., an associate fellow of Calhoun College at Yale University, and a fellow of Butler College at Princeton University. She is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and in addition to having her own private practice, she frequently lectures at universities across the country and has twice been named ''College Lecturer of the Year.''
Dr. Westheimer has been celebrated with numerous awards for educational programming on television and cable. She has received three honorary doctorate degrees, and People Magazine included her in their list of the ''Most Intriguing People of the Century.'' In 2002 she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and in June of 2006, Columbia University's Teacher's College awarded her their Medal for Distinguished Services.
Also on Friday, Neil Sedaka will perform 8:15 p.m. in the Amphitheater. Sedaka had eight Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1962, including ''Oh! Carol'' ''Calendar Girl'' ''Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen'' and ''Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.''
The Amphitheater scheduled closes at 8:15 p.m. Saturday with Michael Bolton, who has sold more than 53 million records, won multiple Grammy trophies for Best Male Vocalist and countless other honors, earned a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and sold out arenas worldwide. Bolton has also sung with Luciano Pavarotti and Ray Charles, written songs with Bob Dylan, penned hits for Barbra Streisand and KISS, played guitar with B.B. King and been sampled on a track by hip-hop superstar Kanye West.
Other speakers speaking during 10:45 a.m. sessions in the institution's Amphitheater this week are:
On Monday, Donald Barlett and James Steele will be the featured speakers. They have been working as an investigative reporting team since 1971, first at the Philadelphia Inquirer until 1997 an then as editors-at-large at Time Inc. from 1997 to 2006 before becoming contributing editors at Vanity Fair since 2006. Their specialty is researching, analyzing and writing about the complex issues and institutions that profoundly affect American life. Their most recent book, entitled ''Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine,'' was described as ''a devastating indictment, supported by excellent research,'' by Publishers Weekly.
Their previous books include ''Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America;'' ''America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?;'' and ''America: Who Stole the Dream?''
Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa, one of the world's leading experts in integrative or complementary medicine, Alzheimer's disease and memory loss, will speak Tuesday. His groundbreaking holistic medicine program for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and memory loss, for which he is most widely known, was shared with the public in 1997 through the acclaimed international best-seller, Brain Longevity.
For close to 15 years, Dr. Khalsa has also served as President and Medical Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation. In this capacity he testified before Congress about his work in the area of lifestyle influence on Alzheimer's disease. Recently, Khalsa was named Associate Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Center for Spirituality and the Mind, where he is conducing a breakthrough research project in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Medical School to examine the effectiveness of meditation on early cognitive impairment.
As a literary journalist, Gail Sheehy, who will speak Wednesday, was one of the original contributors to New York magazine. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984, she won the Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America for her in-depth character portraits of national and world leaders, including both Presidents Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Sheehy is a seven-time recipient of the New York Newswomen's Club Front Page Award for distinguished journalism, most recently for her Vanity Fair article ''September Widows.'' Other honors include the National Magazine Award, the Penny-Missouri Journalism Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations for her book, Spirit of Survival. She is one of the founders of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women.
Christina Economos, an assistant professor of nutrition at Tufts University's School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a research scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, will be Thursday's featured speaker. Her research efforts are focused on the interaction between diet, exercise, body composition, and aging, with an emphasis on techniques that develop and preserve skeletal muscle and bone mass throughout the lifespan.
Dr. Economos is dedicated to communication strategies and public health policies that deal with the complex relationships between nutrition, health, disease and human performance. She directed the country's largest statewide osteoporosis prevention initiative for two years prior to joining Tufts. In addition to her teaching and research, she serves on the Massachusetts Osteoporosis Awareness Program Advisory Committee, is an appointed member of the Massachusetts Governor's Committee on Physical Fitness and Sports, and is Vice President of the National Association of Governor's Councils on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Starting Monday, morning speakers will focus on Healing and Healthy Aging: Nurture and Nature.
Dr. Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who helped to pioneer the field of media psychology with her radio program, ''Sexually Speaking.'' What began in 1980 as a 15-minute taped show that aired after midnight soon became part of a network, which has included television, books, newspapers, games, home video and computer software. Dr. Westheimer is an adjunct professor at N.Y.U., an associate fellow of Calhoun College at Yale University, and a fellow of Butler College at Princeton University. She is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and in addition to having her own private practice, she frequently lectures at universities across the country and has twice been named ''College Lecturer of the Year.''
Dr. Westheimer has been celebrated with numerous awards for educational programming on television and cable. She has received three honorary doctorate degrees, and People Magazine included her in their list of the ''Most Intriguing People of the Century.'' In 2002 she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and in June of 2006, Columbia University's Teacher's College awarded her their Medal for Distinguished Services.
Also on Friday, Neil Sedaka will perform 8:15 p.m. in the Amphitheater. Sedaka had eight Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1962, including ''Oh! Carol'' ''Calendar Girl'' ''Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen'' and ''Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.''
The Amphitheater scheduled closes at 8:15 p.m. Saturday with Michael Bolton, who has sold more than 53 million records, won multiple Grammy trophies for Best Male Vocalist and countless other honors, earned a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and sold out arenas worldwide. Bolton has also sung with Luciano Pavarotti and Ray Charles, written songs with Bob Dylan, penned hits for Barbra Streisand and KISS, played guitar with B.B. King and been sampled on a track by hip-hop superstar Kanye West.
Other speakers speaking during 10:45 a.m. sessions in the institution's Amphitheater this week are:
On Monday, Donald Barlett and James Steele will be the featured speakers. They have been working as an investigative reporting team since 1971, first at the Philadelphia Inquirer until 1997 an then as editors-at-large at Time Inc. from 1997 to 2006 before becoming contributing editors at Vanity Fair since 2006. Their specialty is researching, analyzing and writing about the complex issues and institutions that profoundly affect American life. Their most recent book, entitled ''Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine,'' was described as ''a devastating indictment, supported by excellent research,'' by Publishers Weekly.
Their previous books include ''Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America;'' ''America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?;'' and ''America: Who Stole the Dream?''
Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa, one of the world's leading experts in integrative or complementary medicine, Alzheimer's disease and memory loss, will speak Tuesday. His groundbreaking holistic medicine program for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and memory loss, for which he is most widely known, was shared with the public in 1997 through the acclaimed international best-seller, Brain Longevity.
For close to 15 years, Dr. Khalsa has also served as President and Medical Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation. In this capacity he testified before Congress about his work in the area of lifestyle influence on Alzheimer's disease. Recently, Khalsa was named Associate Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Center for Spirituality and the Mind, where he is conducing a breakthrough research project in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Medical School to examine the effectiveness of meditation on early cognitive impairment.
As a literary journalist, Gail Sheehy, who will speak Wednesday, was one of the original contributors to New York magazine. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984, she won the Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America for her in-depth character portraits of national and world leaders, including both Presidents Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Sheehy is a seven-time recipient of the New York Newswomen's Club Front Page Award for distinguished journalism, most recently for her Vanity Fair article ''September Widows.'' Other honors include the National Magazine Award, the Penny-Missouri Journalism Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations for her book, Spirit of Survival. She is one of the founders of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women.
Christina Economos, an assistant professor of nutrition at Tufts University's School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a research scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, will be Thursday's featured speaker. Her research efforts are focused on the interaction between diet, exercise, body composition, and aging, with an emphasis on techniques that develop and preserve skeletal muscle and bone mass throughout the lifespan.
Dr. Economos is dedicated to communication strategies and public health policies that deal with the complex relationships between nutrition, health, disease and human performance. She directed the country's largest statewide osteoporosis prevention initiative for two years prior to joining Tufts. In addition to her teaching and research, she serves on the Massachusetts Osteoporosis Awareness Program Advisory Committee, is an appointed member of the Massachusetts Governor's Committee on Physical Fitness and Sports, and is Vice President of the National Association of Governor's Councils on Physical Fitness and Sports.
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