Kate Lorig, R.N., Dr.P.H.
will be our guest speaker for the
Spring 2008 Kirkpatrick Lecture Series

Thursday, April 10, 2008
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Alumni Center
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Chronic Disease Self Management:
Real World Experience and Outcome

Kate Lorig is a Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center.  She has a masters in nursing and a doctorate in public health with a specialty in health education.

For more than two decades, using a public health approach, she has developed and evaluated community-based patient education programs for people with chronic conditions including arthritis, heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, and AIDS.  In recent years this work has been extended to the Spanish Speaking community.

Her present research included an Internet based Diabetes Self-Management as well as small group interventions in Diabetes and Arthritis for English and Spanish speakers.

Organizations and communities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Australia, China, and South Africa are using her work.

Please call the Community Center for Vital Aging at
(765)-289-4541 for more information. This event is FREE and open to the public.  Parking is available in the lot behind the Alumni Center off of Bethel Avenue.

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The Kirkpatrick Lecture Series is made possible each year by an endowment that underwrites the costs.  The family of
J. Walter and Arrena I. Kirkpatrick donated the proceeds from the sale of their home, to Ball State University as a memorial to continue their community interests.  Their daughter, Nila Kirkpatrick Covalt, decided that gerontology workshops would be an appropriate memorial and upon her death, bequeathed additional funds to this endowment. This funding allows the Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology to continue providing these lectures free to the public.