One day:  6 credit hours

Two Days: 24 credit hours

Friday Workshop:  See syllabus in linked flher

Saturday Workshop:  Case study presentations

focusing on the clinical application of the information

presented in Friday's workshop.  You will receive a

 copy of my 15 hour CD-rom recording of my 2005 PCOS

conference and will be expected to have reviewed this material before

arriving for the conference.  This preparatory work includes the following lectures:

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome:  What It Is and What It Isn't

Robert Kauffman, MD, Director of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas

Identification and Treatment of Insulin Resistance:  No Small Affair (2004 lecture)

Robert Kauffman, MD, Director of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department  of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas

Dietary Fatty Acid Content and Ovulation:  Relationships and Mechanisms

K. Shane Broughton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

Recognizing and Treating Sleep-related Eating Disorder and Nocturnal Eating Syndrome

(2004 lecture)

Carlos Schenck, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Laboratory, University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sleep and Sex:  What Can Go Wrong, What You Can Do About It

Carlos Schenck, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Laboratory, University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hormones, Anxiety, and Mood Swings (2004 lecture)

Mia Elwood, MSW, Owner, Healthy Futures, Scottsdale, Arizona

We Aren't Really Different, We Just Want Answers:  A Cyster's Perspective

Christina Davis and Erica Goble, Women With PCOS, Oxford, Mississippi and Phoenix, Arizona

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Mental Health

Marlene P. Freeman, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona

Women's Health--Opportunities for Nutritional Care, Education, and Intervention

Elisabeth Peterson, RD, Peterson Nutrition and Fitness, Richmond, Virginia.

Understanding Insulin Resistance in Children and Teens

Frank Thorp, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and the Committee on Nutrition and Nutritional Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

The Role of Food Sensitivity in Comorbid Symptoms of PCOS

Director of Medical Nutrition, Signet Diagnostic Corporation, Riviera Beach, FL. www.nowleap.com.  Also, Consultant Dietitian and Freelance Writer, who telecommutes from her office high in the central Colorado Rocky Mountains.

The Metabolic Impact of Trauma 

Lynne Smiley, Ph.D., Nutrition Therapy Consultant, Tucson, Arizona.

The Endocrinology of Obesity

Robert Kauffman, MD, Director of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department  of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas

You will also be asked to prepare a

case study from your own practice for use in the day's discussion.

Please note:  You must also complete preparatory homework in order to participate in Day Two.

If this work is not completed you will be allowed to stay in the workshop but you

WILL NOT receive continuing education credit.  You will need to do additional work in order to receive the credit.

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