Houston
Cancer Institute, PA
Dr. James E. Dowd is coming to Houston!
Speaker
James E Dowd, MD, FACR
Contact: Lena Rogers, RN
281-558-1171
What’s the connection between low vitamin D levels
and a higher risk of Autoimmunity, Bone Disease, and Cancer?
James E. Dowd, MD,
FACR, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Michigan State
University and the founder and director of the Arthritis Institute of
Michigan, will be the featured guest speaker for an upcoming educational
program.
Dr. Dowd has been widely published and recognized in the professional
literature as the author of The Vitamin D Cure. This program is
sponsored and hosted by the Jabboury Foundation for Cancer Research and
the Houston Cancer Institute, so all physicians and nurses are invited
as complimentary guests. The program has been approved for 1 AMA/PRA
Category 1 Credit.™
There will be two professional educational programs for physicians and nurses:
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:00 P.M. at The Village at Gleannloch Farms, 9505 Northpointe Boulevard, Spring, Texas 77379. |
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Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 7:00 P.M. at The Buckingham, 8580 Woodway, Houston, Texas 77063. |
Dinner will be provided, courtesy of “The Village at Gleannloch Farms
and The Buckingham.” To RSVP for the program, please call the Jabboury
Foundation at 281-558-1171 or The Houston Cancer Institute at
713-464-9559 or e-mail your reservation to info@jabboury.org. You may
also print out the invitation at www.jabboury.org and fax.
Seating is limited, so reservations will be necessary and accepted on a
first-come basis.
R.S.V.P.
RSVP@houstoncancerinstitute.com
713.464.9559
281.558.1171
James E. Dowd, M.D., FACRDr. Dowd is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and director of the Arthritis Institute of Michigan and the Michigan Arthritis Research Center. He did his undergraduate work at Texas A&M University and received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He completed a residency in combined internal medicine and pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he served as chief medical resident at Erie County Medical. He completed a four-year fellowship in combined adult and pediatric rheumatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He received a Physician-Scientist Development Award given by the American College of Rheumatology for research on superantigens. He is board-certified in general internal medicine, adult rheumatology, and pediatric rheumatology. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Michigan Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. He has authored several scientific papers as well as a book, The Vitamin D Cure published by John Wiley & Sons in 2008. |