Women in Leadership - 2009 Jun
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Wednesday Jun 3, 2009
11:15 AM - 1:15 PM CDT
Starts: 1115am
Ends: 0115pm
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"Building Brainhealth: Your Most Important Asset"
Featuring Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D. Chief Director for BrainHealth, University of Texas at Dallas
About the Program
More can be done to keep our brain healthy than any other part of the body, yet our idea of fitness stops at the neck. Advances at UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth are revealing how the brain best learns, critically reasons, and retrieves information in a timely manner as well as what interferes with or enhances our performance in the work place. Today, we are working longer hours, reading more, getting input from vast resources, doing more at the same time - but is it making us work smarter and building a healthier brain? Come learn about three pivotal brain functions that can make or break your productivity in the hectic day-to-day operations of the business world.
About the Speaker
Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman (Ph.D. '86) is founder and director of the {C}
"Every single day, we give hope to someone suffering from a brain disorder or injury," says Dr. Chapman, who is a major force behind the movement to make "brain physicals" a regular part of health care check-ups. "Our brain is the most important organ and its health makes everything else we attempt possible."
Dr. Chapman's mentor at UT Dallas during her doctoral studies was Dr. Hanna Ulatowska, whom Dr. Chapman describes as "a true genius, extraordinarily funny, a humanitarian with those that cross her path daily, and a real task master of keen intellectual thought. To have a class with her is to stretch to new depths of reasoning and creating novel ideas."
Dr. Chapman credits UT Dallas with influencing her to "think in new ways and to pave uncharted territory that will make a difference in lives today, not 20 or 30 years from now, as occurs in most scientific discovery."
Through her work with the center, Dr. Chapman has had some incredible professional experiences, including hosting three international symposiums on Reprogramming the Human Brain at the Center for BrainHealth. Some of the special guests for the events included Nobel laureates and the world's leading brain scientists.
While making a difference in lives today is exhilarating, Dr. Chapman also has great plans for the future. Her vision is that the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth will become the leading institute in the world in cognitive brain discovery and brain health in the next 10 years. She plans to bring improved brain health solutions to people all around the world.
"Brain health is one of the most pressing public health issues of a global nature," Dr. Chapman says. "More can be done to build a healthy brain for the future than any other part of our body."
