to the Fall/Winter 2014 CEDHA newsletter

Volume 1, Issue 3
Fall/Winter 2014
In this issue:
P1. Meet Dr. Raj Shah
P1. World’s AIDS Day
P2. Participant
Spotlight
P2. Holiday Party
Dr. Raj C. Shah, MD
Raj C. Shah, MD is an associate professor of family
medicine with the Rush University Medical Center.
He is a principal investigator for clinical trials in
Alzheimer's disease and other common age-related
conditions. He is on the international steering
committee and is site principal investigator for the
ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly prevention
clinical trial. He also provides support for ongoing
longitudinal research and infrastructure projects on
memory and aging, including the Rush Memory and
Aging Project, the Rush Religious Orders Study, the
Rush Minority Aging and Research Study, the Rush
Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center, the Rush
Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center, the Rush
Center of Excellence on Disparities in HIV and
Aging, and the Rush Memory Clinic Data and
Specimen Data Repository.
Worlds AIDS Day
P3. Strategies to
World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe on December 1st. It
Improve Quality of Life celebrates the progress made during the epidemic and brings into focus the
P4. CEDHA overview
P4. Contact CEDHA
remaining challenges. Chicago's World AIDS Day 2014 focused on ending the
epidemic with hopes to accelerate the response to HIV and AIDS by preventing
new infections and promoting communication on all levels to ensure individuals
living with the virus will receive prompt, ongoing, and excellent care.
Capt. Jim Lando, MD, Dr. Larry Goodman,, Congressman Danny K. Davis,
Kasey Bates, Dr. Mildred Williamson, Sherman Bryant, Karen Graham,
Sanford Gaylord, Dr. David Schwartz, Kathi Braswell, Peter McLoyd
Rush Center of Excellence Newsletter
Participant Spotlight
We would like to take this time to acknowledge one of
our participants, Judy Collura, Judy has been a great
asset to our Uptown CEDHA project. Judy joined the
CEDHA study because she was wanted to learn more
about herself and changes in her cognitive ability. She
then went on to spread the word to others about her
experience as a participant. Since becoming a member
of the CEDHA advisory council in 2014, Judy has
recruited five members for the study, which
includes
her two sisters. Judy always has a fun
story to tell
about her experience as a bar tender and enjoys making
others laugh. She is always a pleasure to be around.
Thank you Judy!
Janet Fisk and Judy Collura
CEDHA Holiday Party
A very warm thank you to everyone who joined us for our annual holiday party. We had a great time
and it was wonderful to gather with friends, associates and colleagues to celebrate the season! We
would also like to take a moment to thank Tarisha Washington, David Cosey, Mattildur Kelley, Floyd
McGee and the CEDHA advisory council members, who planned and executed the event!
We hope to see you all again next year! Thank you from all of us at CEDHA!
Englewood:
Top Row: Sylvia Young, Gwendolyn Griffin,,
Bridgette Hampton, Kasey Bates, Willie Taylor,
Bottom Row: Urrainer Moffet Stephanie Pulley,
Tommie Conners, Tarisha Washington,
Floyd McGee
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Uptown:
Top Row: Sharon McNutt,, Jim Novak,
John Quirk, Willie Cunningham, Kenny
Rodgers, Betty Shad, David Cosey
Bottom Row: Janet Fisk, Judy Collura,
Marta Kelley, Tarisha Washington
Volume 1, Issue 3
Seven strategies to improve your quality of life:
Cultivate Optimism!
Be Present!
Clarify your priorities!
Connect with others!
Celebrate!
Love yourself!
Give back to others!
Written by Molly Mahar
Your body is the vehicle that carries you through your life. Love yourself by treating your body with
respect & care. Fuel it well with fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains & lean protein. Move it
daily. Don’t smoke, don’t abuse alcohol. Meditate. Help yourself age well by staying flexible,
protecting your skin from sun & exercising your mind. Sleep well. Beware the ease in which you
critique yourself & indulge in praise instead. Devise a plan to add some of these strategies to your
day, to your week, to your life. Your well being depends on it!
CEDHA CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY!
Daniel Hale Williams
Garret Morgan
Pioneer of open heart
Inventor of traffic sigsurgery
nal and gas mask
Madam C J Walker
Entrepreneur and
creator of black hair
products
Patricia Bath
Created a laser surgical
device
Achievements by Black inventors can be seen as far back as ancient Africa but much of society has
no idea that many of the products or devices that make their everyday lives more enjoyable are the
result of the hard work and ingenuity of Blacks.
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The Rush Center of Excellence on Disparities in HIV and Aging (CEDHA) is a partnership between
Rush University Medical Center, the Ruth M. Rothstein Core Center, and the Community Outreach
Intervention Projects of University of Illinois, at Chicago. Our focus is on health in older adults, including adults with HIV, and is funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of NIH.
The Center works toward eliminating health disparities in 3 ways:
1. Partnering with community organizations and older adults to foster healthy aging;
2. Training the next generation of researchers focused on health disparities; and
3. Conducting high quality research to understand the causes of health disparities among older
adults.
Look us up on the Web!
http://www.cedha.rush.edu
Rush University Medical Center | Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Rush Center of Excellence on Disparities in HIV and Aging
600 S. Paulina St., Suite 1022 Chicago, IL 60612
Phone 312-942-1509 | Email: Kasey_Bates@Rush.Edu
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