Covid and Chronic Stress
Healthy Coping With Long-Term Pandemic Impacts
ROBERT SAPOLSKY, PhD
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NADINE BURKE HARRIS, MD, MPH
California Surgeon General
Moderated by
FUMIKO HOEFT, MD, PhD
Thurs Mar 18, 7pm-8:15pm PT
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Registration closes 24 HOURS before this event or
sooner if maximum capacity is reached
Free for member school parents and for educators.
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As we mark the first year anniversary of the pandemic, we’re asking what the long-term effects of coping with Covid will be. Social isolation, illness, delayed or distanced education and prolonged uncertainty create havoc on the mind and body.
Three of the nation’s leading experts on chronic stress and brain development come together to discuss the pandemic’s consequences and how families can mediate them.
Prof. Robert M. Sapolsky, Stanford neuroscientist and the country’s foremost expert on chronic stress, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California's Surgeon General who studies the biology of childhood adversity, and moderator Dr. Fumiko Hoeft, a physician and researcher on learning and the brain, will help us understand the effects of acute and chronic stress of the pandemic and quarantine.
They will share the research on brain-body stress response and offer important steps that we can take to limit the adverse impacts of the pandemic and boost our own and our children’s resilience to stress.
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About the Speakers
Robert M. Sapolsky, PhD, is a Professor of Biology, Neurology and Neurosurgery at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Museum of Kenya. He is the author of several books including, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst; Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers; and The Trouble with Testosterone. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Science, Scientific American, Harper's, and The New Yorker. His 2008 National Geographic special on stress, and his on-line lectures about human behavioral biology, have been watched tens of millions of times.
Nadine Burke Harris, MD, MPH is California’s first Surgeon General. A pediatrician, Burke Harris founded San Francisco’s Bayview Child Health Center to bring equity to children’s healthcare. Her research and practice focus on toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their lifelong effects. As founder of the Center for Youth Wellness she pushed to create a clinical model that recognizes and treats toxic stress in children. Her TEDMED talk, viewed over 7 million times, is used actively in trainings and college curricula to raise awareness of the physiologic impact of stress. She is the author of The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity.
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Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD (moderator) is a psychiatrist, neurophysiologist and cognitive neuroscientist. She is Director of BrainLENS at UConn and UCSF; Professor of Psychological Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, and the Director of the Brain Imaging Research Center at UConn; and Adjunct Professor at UCSF. For over 17 years, Hoeft has conducted research on learning and brain development, with focus on literacy and dyslexia, as well as the science of resilience. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, NPR, CNN, The New Yorker, and Scientific American.
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