An optional social hour with wine tasting and music will follow. Following the program, a sampling of nutraceuticals and healthy snacks will be offered. Schwartz, a physician and also a professor of biochemistry and medicine at the UI, will discuss cancer on a cellular level and provide an overview of current treatments and promising therapies of the future. An array of antioxidant-rich refreshments will be served at a reception after the session. New technologies looming on the horizon of medicine, including robotic surgery, virtual reality and nanotechnology, will be discussed by Dr. Rick Satava, a professor of surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Space is limited.
Richard Keen News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 807 South Wright Street.