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Physician, researcher Dr. David Barker
speaks at George Fox Feb. 21
NEWBERG, Ore. (Jan. 24, 2008) - George Fox University and Providence Newberg Medical Center will host a public health forum featuring Dr. David Barker - a physician and researcher who discovered the relationship between birth weight and the risk of coronary heart disease - from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in Wood-Mar Auditorium on the university's Newberg campus.
Barker, a physician and professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Southampton in England and a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Heart Research Center at Oregon Health and Science University, will speak on "Halting the Epidemic of Diabetes and Heart Disease."
The forum is free and open to the public. In addition to seating in Wood-Mar Auditorium, a live feed of the presentation will be available in Room 105 of the university's Hoover Academic Building.
Barker, M.D., Ph.D., is internationally renowned for what was named the "Barker Hypothesis" by the British Medical Journal in 1995. In 1989, with University of Southampton colleagues, he showed for the first time that people who had low birth weight are at greater risk of developing coronary heart disease. His theory is now widely accepted in the medical community.
Later studies he conducted showed that low birth weight also is associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes. In all, Barker has published more than 200 papers and written or edited five books about the developmental origins of chronic disease.
His Oregon connection began in 2003, when he joined the faculty at the Heart Research Center at OHSU to study how nutrition and growth before birth and during early childhood alter the development of the heart. He is a research partner with Dr. Kent Thornburg, a member of the George Fox Board of Trustees and a 1967 George Fox graduate. Thornburg helped arrange the forum.
For more information, contact Sharon Pilon, executive assistant in the university's Office of Development, at 503-554-2115, or Mike Antrim, senior public affairs and marketing coordinator at Providence Newberg Medical Center, at 503-537-1699.
George Fox University is the only evangelical Christian university in the Pacific Northwest classified by U.S. News & World Report as a national university. More than 3,200 students attend classes on the university's campus in Newberg, Ore., and at teaching centers in Portland, Salem, and Redmond Ore., and Boise, Idaho. George Fox offers bachelor's degrees in more than 40 majors, degree-completion programs for working adults, five seminary degrees, and 12 master's and doctoral degrees.
Providence Newberg Medical Center, a part of Providence Health & Services, provides complete health care peace of mind through a network of hospitals, clinics, health plans and home services.
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