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Education Day Schedule of Events

Puttin’ on the Pink Education Day
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012
LaSells Stewart Center
7:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.

7:45 a.m. – Registration & Refreshments
8 a.m. – Yoga with Live Well Studio
8:45 a.m. – Welcome, Sandy Perry, Chair, Puttin’ on the Pink Education Day
9 a.m. – Keynote Speaker Catharine H. Powers, MS, RD, LD, Culinary Nutrition Associates
10:30 a.m. – Break Out Sessions*
11:30 a.m. – Free Healthy Lunch
1 p.m. – Break Out Sessions*
2:15 p.m. Yoga with Live Well Studio
6 p.m. Evening Event at Corvallis Public Library
Featuring Keynote Speaker, Catharine H. Powers, MS, RD, LD, Culinary Nutrition Associates

Keynote Speaker
Catharine H. Powers, MS, RD, LD, Culinary Nutrition Associates, a visionary thinker, innovative communicator and engaging trainer, works with food manufacturers, and distributors and with foodservice operators to leverage nutrition in marketing, menu development, and sales. Inspired by a passion for making healthy foods taste good and good foods healthy, She has extensive experience developing innovative training and curricular materials for chefs, dietitians and others in the foodservice industry.

Ms. Powers spent nearly 15 years at the world’s most prominent culinary education facility, The Culinary Institute of America (CIA). She was instrumental in developing the Institute’s cutting-edge nutrition program, including the award-winning St. Andrew’s Café. This program not only sparked national interest in culinary nutrition but also serves as model for culinary schools across the country.

Breakout Session 1 options:
Power of Acupuncture
Bonnie Lorenz, LAc
Find stress relief through the power of acupuncture. This alternative treatment can help you find reprieve from physical symptoms, such as tense muscles, muscular pains, high blood pressure, or cancer symptoms, such as nausea, pain and depression.

Self-Breast Exam Class
Learn advanced techniques proven to be more effective for self-breast exam. Our MammaCare class is taught by Joann Stutzman and Susan Merrill, registered nurses and certified MammaCare specialists.

It’s All Natural
Tina Kaczor, ND
Find out more about Naturopathic Medicine and cancer. Naturopathic methods have been shown to help in prevention and symptom management.

Breakout Session 2 options:
Q&A with Catharine H. Powers
Learn more about eating for a cancer-free life from keynote speaker Catharine Powers, MS, RD, LD. Get the answers to the questions that you didn’t get to ask in the morning.

Self-Breast Exam Class
Learn advanced techniques proven to be more effective for self-breast exam. Our MammaCare class is taught by Joann Stutzman and Susan Merrill, registered nurses and certified Mammacare specialists.

Physician Panel, Lamia Boric, M.D., Oncologist; Christopher Bombeck, M.D., Surgeon; Tina Kaczor, ND, Naturopathic Physician; and Kevin Day, M.D., Plastic Surgeon
Learn more from this cancer-caring panel of physicians. A Q & A session will provide time to ask the physicians the latest on treatments, research and optimizing care.