This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served from 5:30-6:00 p.m.

Keynote presentation:

Stress Resilience for Preventing Depression: Making Stress Work for You

Keynote speaker:
Elissa Epel, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

Director
UCSF Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center

About the speaker:
Elissa Epel, PhD, is a health psychologist focusing on stress pathways. For the past 15 years, she has studied stress in the lab and in the field, using naturalistic stressors, and associations with an early aging syndrome. She examines how stress processes lead to early disease precursors, focusing on overeating, abdominal obesity, and immune cell aging. She has found that people’s propensity to be stress reactive, psychologically or in terms of cortisol reactivity, is associated with overeating, abdominal obesity, and accelerated cell aging.

Breakout sessions:
Surviving After Immigration and Managing Acculturation Stress
Sita Patel, PhD, and Joyce Chu, PhD

Mindfulness Meditation Strategies for Managing Stress
Stuart Eisendrath, MD

Coping With Stress and Depression as Age Increases and Resources Decline
Beverly Lehr, PhD

A community educational event co-sponsored by the UCSF Depression Center, Robert and Delphine Eschbach Endowment, UCSF Department of Psychiatry, and the Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

FAQs

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
In addition to private transportation options, UCSF Parnassus is served by the SF Muni 6-Haight/Parnassus bus, 43-Masonic bus, and N-Judah light rail lines.

Limited street parking is available near campus. Close-by, covered parking is available in the Millberry Union Parking Garage for an hourly rate.

Who can attend and what is the cost?
This event is free and open to the public.

Is continuing medical education credit available for attending this event?
No, CME credit is not available for this event.

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
We strongly encourage you to bring your ticket or confirmation (either printed or saved on a mobile device) to the event. Otherwise, we will have to verify your reservation manually at the door.

The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?
Yes, tickets are transferrable.

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Send us an email at psychiatryeventslectures@ucsf.edu.