Alzheimers Workshop

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WyGEC Education and Training Resources and News

The Wyoming Geriatric Education Center (WyGEC) provides educational opportunities for Wyoming health care professionals who serve an aging population. We offer resources in gerontology education and interdisciplinary geriatric training via lectures, conferences, newsletters and links to other information. These resources will help continue your gerontology training and aging education.

Jeffery Cummings, M.D., leading Alzheimers specialist from Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain in Las Vegas, Nevada, spoke to a large group of students and faculty in October about research in Alzheimers and the disease itself. He will be returning to Wyoming again June 7, 2012 for a workshop from 1 pm to 5 pm at the Snow King Resort in Jackson. Information about stipends for UW students to attend the workshop is forthcoming.The following day, June 8, 2011, Dr. Cummings will be speaking to the Wyoming Medical Society meeting at Jackson Lake Lodge. For more information, call Jenny at 307-766-2829.

Stipends for students: Travel stipends for 20 students will be available. Priority will given to students registered for corresponding 1 credit hour class. However, other interested students may also apply. Application form will be available soon.

For more information about Jeffery Cummings, M.D., click here.

For a bibliography of articles written by Dr. Cummings, click here. (To limit to those available in free full text, in the upper right hand corner of the list of articles, under Filter your results, click on Free Full Text.

For more information about the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain, click here. For more photos of the Lou Ruvo buiding and information about the architect, Frank Gehry, click here.

WyGEC Speakers Bureau

Online forms for speaker suggestions and applications. These forms are designed to assist healthcare institutions in Wyoming with finding a speaker to talk about topics related to geriatrics at their workshops, conferences, seminars, or other events of educational nature. Or apply to be a speaker. Once the request is received, WyGEC will review and work on matching it with an appropriate speaker.

Click for the speakers bureau forms

Funding/Sponsors

  

• Grant UB4HP19198

Contact information

Wyoming Geriatric Education Center
Department 3432
1000 University Avenue
Laramie, Wyoming 82071

(307) 766-2829
Fax: (307) 766-2763
Email: wygec@uwyo.edu