January 14, 2003

Galveston College

Galveston College's late registration continues through Thursday, January 16, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the College's Main Campus located at 4015 Avenue Q on Galveston Island.  Call (409) 763-6551 for more information.

A Sage Source program sponsored by the UTMB Senior Services Office and the Galveston College Workforce Development and Continuing Education Division will provide a Spring Lecture Series for Senior Citizens and Winter Texans beginning Wednesday, January 15, 2003

The lectures, that feature experts in the field of health and healing, are free to the public.  The lectures will be offered Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. on the third floor of the Fort Crockett Campus at 5001 Avenue U in Galveston.

The first lecture will be held on Wednesday, January 15, 2003.  The program is "Recognizing Stroke Symptoms:  A Brain Attack" featuring speaker Lois A. Killewich, M.D., Ph.D.  Killewich is a vascular surgeon certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery.  She went to medical school at the University of Washington, received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York, performed her surgical residency program at the University of California Davis and completed her clinical vascular surgery fellowship at St. Louis University.  She was on the faculty of the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Maryland prior to joining UTMB as an Associate Professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery.

For more information, call (409) 763-6551, extension 344.