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TWU’s Houston campus presents nursing lecture March
9
2/20/06
HOUSTON —Texas
Woman’s University will present “Alternative Medicine
and Women’s Health: Choices and Consequences”
on Thursday, March 9 on TWU’s Houston campus.
The event is part
of the Parry Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by TWU
Houston’s Stark College of Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau
International, Beta Beta Houston. The presentation is scheduled
from 9 a.m. to noon in room MGJ 724 of TWU’s Houston
campus, located at 1130 John Freeman Blvd. in the Texas Medical
Center. The lecture is free and participants are responsible
for their own parking fees. For more information or to register,
call (713) 794-2100 by March 2.
TWU has requested
3.0 CNE Type 1 contact hours from the Texas Nursing Association
for the event.
Dr. Kellie F. Flood-Shaffer,
associate professor and residency program director for the
Health Sciences Center at Texas Tech University, will lead
the presentation. The lecture will focus on the application
of alternative medicine to women’s health and include
a discussion on the use of herbal preparation by women. An
in-depth listing of the intended uses and the possible benefits
and risks of botanical medicinal preparations to the female
patients also will be presented.
Dr. Flood-Shaffer
is also medical director of Women’s Health Care-“Dimensions,”
a Board member of the National and Texas Perinatal Association
and also serves on the Executive Council for the Texas Association
of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She completed her residency
training at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
in 1991. From 1997 to 2001, she was in private practice in
Riverside, Ill., and held a clinical faculty position with
the University of Chicago. Dr. Flood-Shaffer is board certified
by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has
received numerous teaching awards as well as the prestigious
“Best Doctors in America” award.
TWU has the largest
college of nursing in Texas and produces more new nurses than
any other program in the state. More than 750 undergraduate
and graduate nursing students are currently enrolled in the
Stark College of Nursing at TWU’s Houston campus in
the Texas Medical Center. Construction is currently under
way on a new TWU Institute for Health Sciences - Houston Center
scheduled to open in fall 2006. The new, state-of-the-art
facility will be located at the southern gateway of the Texas
Medical Center and will allow TWU to eventually to more than
double its Houston enrollment. For more information visit
www.twu.edu.
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