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The Jewish Home's Annual Sarnat Symposium
Each year, the Sarnat Symposium brings together some of the most innovative, respected, and forward-thinking speakers to share their insight, research findings and experience with social workers and other professionals who care for the aging.
Past Sarnat Symposia have featured such prominent experts in the field of geriatrics as Dr. Fernando Torres-Gil, Dr. Gary Small, Dr. Edward Schneider, Dr. Laura Mosqueda, Dr. Merril Silverstein, W. June Simmons, Dr. Jon Pynoos and Dr. Barbara Solomon, among many others.
Noteworthy speakers and topics scheduled for the Twelfth Annual Sarnat Symposium on Wednesday, October 28, 2009, include Anita Miller on memory books and Alzheimer's disease, Virginia Green on management diversity, Carol Colleran on aging and addiction, and Laura Trejo on transforming the aging network in Los Angeles.
For more information about the Twelfth Annual Sarnat Symposium, please click here.
For additional information about the Symposium and speaking opportunities, please contact Esther Cohen at Esther.Cohen@jha.org or 818.774.3342.
The Sarnat Symposium was funded by Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat in 1998 to promote education of professionals in the field of geriatric care. Rhoda has been a clinical social worker for more than six decades, including 19-year tenure on the faculty of the USC School of Social Work where she served as Director of Field Work for six years.