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WesternYOU Webinars

Come join the WesternU community in learning from fellow WesternU Faculty and Alumni. Discover and renew knowledge from the nonpharmacological treatment of headaches, maintaining a healthy home office, and much more. Below you will find the recordings to all WesternYOU webinars to date. If you would like to be featured as a webinar speaker, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at alumni@westernu.edu. 


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WesternYOU Webinar: Introduction to Diabetes

Webinar#18 Introduction to Diabetes

This bilingual (English/Spanish) diabetes webinar will provide an effective diabetes education session meant to empower individuals in managing or preventing diabetes, and ultimately improve their health and well-being. El curso también será ofrecido en español.
 
Featuring WesternU Staff:
Melanie Barbee, MS, RDN, CDCES, DipACLM | Registered Dietitian Nurtrionist

 

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WesternYOU Webinar: The Fentanyl Crisis: A Pharmacist's Perspective

Webinar#17 The Fentanyl Crisis: A Pharmacist's Perspective

This webinar will be an overview of the fentanyl crisis and expand on overdose prevention awareness. Currently, the unintended use of fentanyl by individuals has led to a spike in drug overdose deaths around the country leading to a national emergency. Attendees will better understand strategies to educate our communities on harm reduction and how to best support the well being of people who use drugs, connecting them to various services.
 
Featuring WesternU Friend:
Monica Vera-Schubert, PharmD | Community Pharmacist

 

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WesternYOU Webinar – Diabetes and Eye Health: A Guide for Primary Care

Webinar#16 Diabetes and Eye Health: A Guide for Primary Care

This free one-hour webinar will highlight the importance of annual eye exams for patients living with and at risk for diabetes, as well as the need for fostering multidisciplinary collaborative care. In addition, it will discuss how a patient-centered approach to diabetes care includes not only medical care, but also patient education on how diabetes will affect patients’ health, including their eye health and vision. 
 
Featuring WesternU Friend:
Jeffry Gerson, OD, FAAO | Optometrist at Private Practice

 

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WesternYOU Webinar Optimal Oral Health Through Orthodontics

Webinar#15 Optimal Oral Health Through Orthodontics

Celebrate National Orthodontic Health Month! Learn about the benefits of orthodontics, the evolution of digital orthodontics, why dentists should refer at age 7 for orthodontic work, and more!
 
Featuring WesternU Alumnus:
C. Colby Gage, DMD '13 | Owner at LevelUp Orthodontics

 

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Webinar#14 The Greatest Practice Management Tool

What is the greatest practice management tool? Join us to find out how to protect your practice, income, investments and family. 
 
Featuring WesternU Friends:
Dr. David Krasnow and Barbara James

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Webinar#13 Fun Conversations around the Holidays

Recipes go hand in hand with the Holidays. Let's have a fun game to relieve stress and stimulate healthy conversations among friends and colleagues. Bring your creativity and laughter!
 
Featuring WesternU Faculty:
Gail Evans Grayson, EdD | Department Chair, Assistant Professor
Rosana Leos Bravo, PhD, MPH | Assistant Professor
Jeanine Borland Mann, MPH | Associate Professor
 

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Library Webinar

Webinar#12 Library Benefits for Alumni?

Join us to learn about alumni resources at the Harriet K. and Philip Pumerantz Library including research guides, database training, literature search assistance, book check out, document delivery, interlibrary loan, library tutorials, on-campus access to electronic resources, and university archives digital collections.
 

Featuring WesternU Staff:
Karoline Almanzar | Director of the Pumerantz Library
Rudy Barreras | Assessment & Public Relations Librarian
Olivia Solis | University Archivist

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Telehealth - A Blessing in Disguise

Webinar#11 Telehealth - A Blessing in Disguise?

Is Telehealth a silver lining in the era of COVID-19? Follow along here to find out!

Featuring WesternU Alumna:
Esther Behmanesh, DO '10 | Family Physician at UCLA Student Health Center

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Webinar#10 Nurse Coaching A Patient-Centered Approach


Nurse coaches facilitate patients in achieving their health goals. Various modalities are used in this process. During the webinar, an overview of nurse coaching will be discussed with the primary focus on the technique of motivational interviewing.

Featuring WesternU Alumna:
Wendi M. Swanson, DNP '15, RN, FNP-C, NC-BC | Associate Professor at the College of Graduate Nursing at Western University of Health Sciences

 

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Webinar #9 Non-Pharmacological Approach to the Treatment of Headaches


Virtual attendees will learn:
1. Some effective approaches to the treatment of tension headaches
2. Exercises that patients can do for themselves to treat their headaches
3. Two simple massage techniques on head and hands to treat headaches

Featuring WesternU Alumnus:
David Redding, DO '93, NMM/OMM, MSHPE '96 | Associate Professor of NMM/OMM and Family Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences

 

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Webinar #8 Resilience: Strategies for Today that Can Change Your Tomorrow


Resilience, the ability to “bounce back” after times of stress and adversity, is an important skill for everyone. During this webinar, the concept of resilience will be discussed and how strategies implemented today can enhance your personal and professional resilience in the days to come.

Featuring WesternU Student:
Melanie Schock, MS, RN, CNE | Current Doctor of Nursing Practice Student

 

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Webinar #7 Surviving COVID-19: A Lived Experience


Shara shares the mental health impact of surviving COVID-19 while balancing professional and academic demands. Furthermore, Shara reviews managing demands she has of herself, while ill.

Featuring WesternU Student:
Shara Ally, MBA, MN, RN | Current Doctor of Nursing Practice Student

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Webinar #6 COVID-19 - Yet Another Zoonotic Threat


Once again, our nation is battling a novel zoonotic threat. There are many parallels between COVID-19 and the West Nile Virus outbreak of 1999 and we face the same challenges as we did then. COVID-19 is a clarion call for the need to embrace a One Health approach to diseases that jump species and threaten us all.

Featuring WesternU Faculty:
Tracey McNamara, DVM, DACVP | Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine

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Webinar #5 Wellness with Health Sciences: Composting during COVID-19


Join Health Sciences in learning how to compost with worms. This activity is a wonderful way to bring healthy gardening to your life by using existing items in your home to create organic dirt. Let's make dirt together!

Featuring WesternU Faculty:
Gail Evans Grayson, EdD | Department Chair, Assistant Professor
Rosana Leos Bravo, PhD, MPH | Assistant Professor
Jeanine Borland Mann, MPH | Associate Professor

 

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Webinar #4 Coping with COVID-19


The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent responses have affected us all in different ways and many have been presented with new and challenging situations. In this webinar, we will learn more about what some of those challenges are along with potential strategies for coping.

Featuring WesternU Faculty:
Benjamin Malcolm, PharmD, MPH, BCPP | Assistant Professor for the College of Pharmacy

 

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Webinar #3 Staying Healthy with a Home Office


We will be discussing proper body mechanics while working from home, workspace set up tips and tricks and sharing stretching activities to help promote mobility and ward off injury.

Featuring WesternU Faculty:
Grant Hirayama, PT, DPT ’13, OCS | Instructor/Clinical Faculty, College of Health Sciences

Lindsey Liggan, PT, DPT ’13, WCS, PRPC | Assistant Professor, College of Health Sciences

Chad Lairamore, PT, PhD, GCS, NCS, FNAP | College of Health Sciences

 

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Webinar #2 Nutrition for Better Mental Health


We know that medications and psychotherapy can be used to treat psychiatric issues, but did you know the foods we eat can have an impact on our mental health as well? Learn how nutrition can influence our mood, anxiety, and cognition.

Featuring WesternU Alumna:
Vania Manipod, DO ’08 | Psychiatrist, Private Practice

 

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Webinar #1 Red Eyes in a Time of Emergency

Many red eyes can present with overlapping signs and symptoms. Learn how to triage red eyes as it relates to allergic, bacterial, or viral involvement. This webinar will include updates of COVID-19 in ocular secretions.

Featuring WesternU Faculty:
Christine Pham, OD ’13 | Assistant Professor for the College of Optometry

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