2023 Community Lecture Series: Dry Eyes

UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute
Feb. 7
7–8 p.m.

Learn about the latest treatment updates in dry eye management with Dr. Marjan Farid. Our free community lecture series is where you can learn about the causes, symptoms and treatment of eye-related conditions.

Acupressure for Labor Pain and After-Delivery Care

UCI Health
Feb. 8
7–8 p.m.

Learn how you can use acupressure to reduce pain during labor as well as after delivery for breastfeeding. In this 60-minute Zoom class, pregnant mothers and their labor partner(s) will learn how to apply acupressure during labor and after delivery, as well as the benefits for your overall health and wellness during the first days after your baby's birth.

Advanced Heart Failure and VAD Support Group

UCI Health
Feb. 9
3:30–4:30 p.m.

UCI Health offers a monthly support group for people with advanced heart failure, those who have ventricular assist device (VAD) implants or those who are in need of one.

"Anti-Sisyphus, or Anti-Blackness and Suicide: Outline of An Afropessimist Thanatology"

UCI Center for Medical Humanities
Feb. 9
5 p.m.

This Work-In-Progress Series with Ph.D. candidate, John Gillespie, presents an outline of an Afropessimist thanatology that interrogates the assumptive logics of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis (reason, bio-centricity, subjectivity, respectively) as well as the regime-of-truth grounding the field of sociological suicidology (mathematization and vitalism) by expressing and analyzing the anxiety of antagonism presented by the figural positionality of the suicidal Black Slave.

Online LASIK Surgery Seminar

UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute 
Feb. 9
6:30 p.m.

If you are tired of wearing glasses or contact lenses, LASIK surgery may be right for you. Join us for a free informational seminar to learn about LASIK surgery, including whether you might be a candidate for the procedure.

Quick Bites: Healing Your Relationship with Food

UCI Center for Student Wellness & Health Promotion
Feb. 13
12:30–1 p.m.

Come discover how the language we use about food is connected to our relationship to diet culture and how to improve it. Quick Bites is a brief, virtual lunch and learn series on Zoom with our registered dietician nutritionist, Jody Margolis, who will cover various nutrition hot topics. You’ll have the opportunity to ask the expert and expand your nutritional knowledge.

Campus Blood Drive

UCI Health
Feb. 14–16

Feb. 14 and 16: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Feb. 15: 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

Campus Blood Donor Center is having a 3-day blood drive Feb. 14–16. All who donate will receive a Jamba Juice voucher and a Petr sticker. Blood donations may save a family, friend or your own life!

Culinary Health: Herbs for Reflux Relief with Sanaz Demehry, MS, PA-C

Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute
Feb. 17
12–12:50 p.m.

UCI Samueli Institute Culinary Health is a 50-minute workshop based on the UCI School of Medicine Culinary Medicine curriculum. Each class is led by a UCI Health SSIHI provider and includes a demonstration from UCI SSIHI Executive Chef Jessica VanRoo on a relevant daily meal plan consisting of breakfast, lunch and/or dinner dishes. Previously recorded classes, presentations and recipes are available.

Blood Drive at the Honda Center

UCI Health 
Feb. 22
9 a.m.–3 p.m.

UCI Health and the Anaheim Ducks are partnering for a blood drive on Wednesday, Feb. 22. Everyone who donates will receive a Troy Terry bobblehead, choice of gift card to Target, In-N-Out or Starbucks, and entry into a drawing for an autographed Anaheim Ducks jersey, all courtesy of UCI Health.

Medicine in Our Backyard with Dr. Lombardo 

UCI Health and Newport Beach Public Library Foundation 
Feb. 27
7 p.m.

How do I know if my heart is failing? The Heart Failure Society of America estimates that nearly 6.5 million Americans over the age of 20 have heart failure, yet an estimated 80% of cardiovascular disease is preventable. Dr. Dawn Lombardo, director of the heart failure program at UCI Health, will discuss how lifestyle plays the most important role in preventing heart disease, as well as tips on how we can make a positive impact on our own health and wellbeing.

Advance Directives

UCI Health 
March 2
Noon–1:30 p.m.

Who will speak for you and your healthcare if you can't speak for yourself? An advance healthcare directive does just that — it tells your healthcare providers what you want to have done (and not done) when you can't speak for yourself. In this 90-minute class, a doctor and social worker will explain what a healthcare directive form is and how they are used.

Healthy Happenings is a monthly email that includes a six-week calendar of healthy news and events. To be included, events must be open to the public, health-related, and hosted or co-hosted by a UCI Health entity. Healthy Happenings is distributed at the beginning of every month. To appear in next month's edition, you must submit your event by one week before the first of the month.