We are kicking off 2021 with a Meet the PI lecture featuring the work of Elizabeth Venditti, PhD. Dr. Venditti is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and directs the University of Pittsburgh Diabetes Prevention Support Center. She is an expert in developing scalable behavioral change interventions—aligned with community health services—to prevent obesity and diabetes.

Dr. Venditti’s research concentrates on obesity, diabetes prevention and health psychology, particularly the potential to reduce the rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and to delay the burden of functional impairments and loss of independence in older adults. Among her many accomplishments is the development of a community-based intervention for weight self-management in older adults, the Group Lifestyle Balance™ Program, which is designed to help non-diabetic, overweight adults to make lifestyle choices to prevent diabetes and to prevent or treat the metabolic syndrome. Her current research addresses the reduction of cardiometabolic risk and promoting functional health in community-based elders.

Date & Time. January 8, 2021, 12:00pm to 1:30pm.

Join Us Via Zoom. Click on this link to join the lecture; Meeting ID: 974 9908 5709; Passcode: 327460.

The entirety of this program will be a lecture by the speaker(s). All individuals able to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. Registration is not required for this event. This event is free and there will be no refunds. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.

For more information. Please contact Frances Patrick (patrickfm@upmc.edu).

Continuing Education Credit:  The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.  Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  Other health care professionals are awarded .15 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.5 contact hours.  In accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interests (if any) will be included in materials which will be distributed at the time of the conference.  WPH is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. WPH maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.  This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits.

The indicated number of clock hours of continuing education is provided through UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital’s Office of Educational Resources and Planning, a PA-approved provider of social work continuing education in accordance with all the applicable educational and professional standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapist. These clock hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT renewal.  For more information, call (412) 204-9085.