Lecture 29: Symptoms and Causes of Vitamin D Deficiency and Treatment Options

Date & Time: Thursday September 9, 2010 – 7:30 PM

Location: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009 ( Get Directions, Campus Map )

Speaker: Dr. Morvarid Alaghmand

Synopsis:

“Once foods were fortified with vitamin D and rickets appeared to have been conquered, many health care professionals thought the major health problems resulting from vitamin D deficiency had been resolved. However, rickets can be considered the tip of the vitamin D deficiency iceberg. In fact, vitamin D deficiency remains common in children and adults.”
Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D.

During childhood, vitamin D deficiency causes growth retardation and skeletal deformities. Vitamin D deficiency in adults can precipitate or exacerbate osteopenia and osteoporosis, can cause osteomalacia (bone softness) and muscle weakness, and increase risk of chronic disorders such as cancer.

This lecture will talk about vitamin D and its metabolism, symptoms and causes of vitamin D deficiency and treatment options.

 
About the Speaker:

Dr. Morvarid Alaghmand was graduated from National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (known as SAMPAD) in Tehran. She studied medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences from 1996 to 2003. She performed her Internal Medicine training (residency) at Interfaith Medical Center, affiliated with SUNY Downstate in New York.

Before starting residency, she was involved in research at Interventional Radiology Department in George Washington University Hospital for one year. She is one of the authors of a textbook called “Image-Guided Interventions”. She researched on bone and skeletal disorders and vitamin D deficiency on Asian population referred to Interfaith Medical Center clinic.

Dr. Alaghmand has been practicing as an Internist at Riverside Medical Group in Maryland since July of 2008. She is a diplomat of American Board of Internal Medicine, and is a member of American College of Physicians.

Fee (including dinner): $5 Students, $15 Public

 

Lecture 29: Symptoms and Causes of Vitamin D Deficiency and Treatment Options


*** Cancelled Due to Severe Weather Conditions ***

Date & Time: Thursday August 12, 2010 – 7:30 PM

Location: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009 ( Get Directions, Campus Map )

Speaker: Dr. Morvarid Alaghmand

Synopsis:

“Once foods were fortified with vitamin D and rickets appeared to have been conquered, many health care professionals thought the major health problems resulting from vitamin D deficiency had been resolved. However, rickets can be considered the tip of the vitamin D deficiency iceberg. In fact, vitamin D deficiency remains common in children and adults.”
                                               Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D. 

During childhood, vitamin D deficiency causes growth retardation and skeletal deformities. Vitamin D deficiency in adults can precipitate or exacerbate osteopenia and osteoporosis, can cause osteomalacia (bone softness) and muscle weakness, and increase risk of chronic disorders such as cancer.

This lecture will talk about vitamin D and its metabolism, symptoms and causes of vitamin D deficiency and treatment options.

 
About the Speaker:

Dr. Morvarid Alaghmand was graduated from National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (known as SAMPAD) in Tehran. She studied medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences from 1996 to 2003.  She performed her Internal Medicine training (residency) at Interfaith Medical Center, affiliated with SUNY Downstate in New York.

Before starting residency, she was involved in research at Interventional Radiology Department in George Washington University Hospital for one year. She is one of the authors of a textbook called “Image-Guided Interventions”. She researched on bone and skeletal disorders and vitamin D deficiency on Asian population referred to Interfaith Medical Center clinic.

Dr. Alaghmand has been practicing as an Internist at Riverside Medical Group in Maryland since July of 2008. She is a diplomat of American Board of Internal Medicine, and is a member of American College of Physicians.

Fee (including dinner): $5 Students, $15 Public

 

Lecture 28: Gender Equality and Economic Growth

Date & Time: Thursday July 8, 2010 – 7:30 PM

Location: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009 ( Get Directions, Campus Map )

Speaker: Ms. Nadereh Chamlou

Synopsis:

Gender equality is often advocated from a rights-based approach, leaving many with the perception that it gender equality is for the sake of being nice to women. But, gender equality is far more important for higher and more sustainable economic growth, which is what every nation needs. Advancing gender equality is more urgent and for business reasons and any other consideration. In this presentation will present some recent research and where Iran stands vis-a-vis peer countries.

About the Speaker:

Nadereh Chamlou is Senior Advisor to the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. In her 29 years with the World Bank, she has worked in technical, advisory, and managerial positions across the organization in such areas as economic management, private and financial sector development, infrastructure and environment, corporate governance, and the knowledge economy. Her experience also extends to Latin America, East Asia and Pacific, and Eastern Europe. She co-authored a World Bank flagship report, “Corporate Governance: A Framework for Implementation,” in 1999, and was co-founder of the World Bank/OECD-sponsored Global Corporate Governance Forum, which she headed from 1998 to 2000. She was the principal author of “Gender and Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region–Women in the Public Sphere” in 2003, and of “The Environment for Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa Region” in 2008.

She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tunis-based Center for Arab Women’s Training and Research (CAWTAR); a founding member of the Steering Committee and the Advisory Committee of the Gender Economic Research and Policy Analysis (GERPA) initiative and Chair of the Friends of the Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund, a scholarship fund for women from developing countries.  She is Adjust Professor at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Policy and a member of the International Steering Committee of Nyenrode, The Netherlands Business University.  She was a member of the scientific committee of the Dutch Gender Task Force–24orMore.  She is a graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and the Graduate School for Economics.

Fee (including dinner): $5 Students, $15 Public

Nadereh Chamlou