Dr. Lawrence Kushi Makes the Connection Between Food and Cancer (PR)

Dear Dr. roberts,

Please join PCRM’s continuing education seminar, Vital Signs: Plant-Based Diets in Clinical Practice, in Southern California on April 10 and hear Lawrence Kushi, Sc.D., present his latest information on Food and Nutrition Recommendations for the Prevention of Cancer.

Dr. Kushi will help attendees:

	Identify current guidelines for cancer prevention
	Give evidence supporting or extending one of the main guidelines
	Identify one area in which current research may modify guidelines
	Highlight practical aspects of guidelines

Dr. Kushi is the associate director for etiology and prevention research, division of research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California. His research interests have focused on the role of food and nutrition in the development, prevention, and prognosis of chronic diseases, including breast and other cancers. Dr. Kushi has served on American Cancer Society committees to develop guidelines for the dietary prevention and management of cancer, and was external chair of the 2006 committees that published their most recent statements on these topics. Learn more about Dr. Kushi > 

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and The George Washington University are pleased to sponsor this continuing education program featuring some of the top researchers in the field:

• Dean Ornish, M.D., Preventive Medicine Research Institute
• Neal Barnard, M.D., Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
• Lawrence H. Kushi, Sc.D., Kaiser Permanente
• John McDougall, M.D., The McDougall Clinic
• Mark Messina, Ph.D., M.S., Nutrition Matters Inc. and Soy Nutrition Institute

Come learn lifesaving information that you can easily incorporate into you clinical practice.

For more information about the Vital Signs program, visit www.PCRM.org/VitalSigns.

I encourage you to forward this announcement to other health care professionals you think would benefit from learning more about using nutrition as a key component in staying healthy and treating disease.

Regards,

Susan Levin, M.S., R.D.
Director of Nutrition Education