CANCELED: Enhancing Health and Quality of Life through Better Sleep
press release: Dear alumni, donors, and friends,
Our highest priority is the health and well-being of our constituents, staff, and campus community. We, alongside campus leadership, have been monitoring rapidly changing conditions and new information about the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). We’ve announced some new steps that we believe are in the best interest of those we serve.
Following recent recommendations from public health officials and guidelines announced by UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank, we have decided to suspend or cancel all alumni events through April 30, 2020. Officials have recommended drastically limiting nonessential travel and suspending or canceling events. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause but are taking this proactive measure out of consideration for your health and well-being.
Consistent with recommendations from campus, our staff will also not be traveling out of Dane County for business purposes until after April 10. We value our relationship with all of our alumni and friends and certainly will continue to reach out by phone and email. Please know that we will remain available to discuss university-related opportunities and/or address any questions you may have.
We are also aware that we have alumni and friends traveling with WAA Travel. You can find more information about that here.
Finally, we have pulled together content that illustrates what UW researchers are doing to fight the virus today and to provide guidance and perspective on how we can all be best prepared. We hope you find this useful as you navigate the evolving media coverage of the virus. We will continue to update this page in the coming weeks.
Thank you for your concern and assistance, and we hope you will be well.
As scientific and clinical knowledge of sleep continues to grow, researchers now recognize that sleep is a powerful medicine that can enhance health, quality of life, and longevity. Join Barczi during this talk, when he will review some of the mechanisms for how we sleep and why we need to. He’ll discuss the interrelationship between sleep and health — with particular emphasis on why our sleep changes with aging. He will also explore evidence-based strategies and behaviors that can optimize our sleep for better health, cognition, and well-being.
The Speaker: Steven Barczi, professor, UW–Madison Department of Medicine, is a professor of medicine and the clinical codirector of the Division of Geriatrics at UW–Madison. He also is clinical director at the Madison VA Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center and the associate program director of the UW’s Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program. Barczi is nationally recognized as a medical educator, chairing the American Geriatric Society Education Committee and serving on several other committees for the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine and the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. He has received national and local awards of excellence as an educator and leads various clinical programs in geriatrics at both the UW Hospital and the Madison VA Hospital. He plays a major role at the UW in directing and advising the institution on establishing new directions in geriatric clinical models, education, and curriculum development.
Free and open to all, registration is strongly encouraged.