Center for Healthy Living Events

Navigating Holiday Meals: Culinary Strategies for Blood Sugar Control

In honor of Diabetes Awareness Month, join the Nourish Program to discuss the unique challenges the holiday season presents for blood sugar management. Learn practical strategies to support mindful eating, balanced meals, and joyful food experiences during festive gatherings. A live cooking demonstration will showcase delicious, diabetes-friendly holiday recipes that are both festive and nourishing. By the end of this session, you'll leave with counseling tips, culinary inspiration, and ready-to-use resources to help clients manage blood sugar without sacrificing the spirit of the season.

Objectives:

1. Identify common challenges individuals living with diabetes face during the holiday season related to blood sugar management
2. Describe evidence-based strategies that support glycemic control during holiday meals and gatherings
3. Demonstrate how to plan and modify a holiday plate to be more blood sugar–friendly while maintaining flavor and cultural relevance

Speaker:

Diana Guevara, MPH, RD, LD
Community Health Education Specialist, Nourish Program
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health

Sarah Wagner, MPH, RD, LD, CDCES
Clinical Dietitian
Memorial Hermann Health System

We are pleased to offer 1.0 Entry-Level CHES/MCHES® credits for this webinar! The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living is a Designated Provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) for Certified Health Education Specialists/Master Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES/MCHES®) through The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC®).

In addition, the CPE activity application for this presentation is pending CDR review and approval for 1CPEU.

And this activity is pending review and approval for 1.0 nursing continuing professional development contact hours. Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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Organizational Transformation and Implementation Science: Managing the Forest and the Trees

This webinar is part of a seminar series presented by the Institute for Implementation Science (IIS), co-hosted by the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living.

Speaker: Martin Charns, MBA, DBA

Objectives:

• Learn the importance of organizational transformation and multi-level models for intervention
• Understand the dynamics of transformation and an organization transformation model

We are pleased to offer 1.0 Entry-Level CHES/MCHES® Credits for this webinar! The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living is a Designated Provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) for Certified Health Education Specialists/Master Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES/MCHES®) through The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC®).

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Breakthrough Randomized Controlled Trial Results on CATCH My Breath

Join the public unveiling of results from the five-year NIH-funded Randomized Controlled Trial on CATCH My Breath, which concluded earlier this year. Principal investigators Dr. Steven Kelder and Dr. Dale Mantey from the UTHealth School of Public Health and Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living will discuss the outcomes and implications for youth health. CATCH Global Foundation Director of Government Partnerships, Marcella Bianco, will dive deeper into CATCH’s new professional development session for the CATCH My Breath Students-Teach-Students extension which engages youth leaders in supporting their peers in avoiding nicotine.

Speakers:

Marcella Bianco
Director of Government Partnerships
Program Director, CATCH My Breath
CATCH Global Foundation

Steven Kelder, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin

Dale Mantey, PhD
Assistant Professor in Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin

We are pleased to offer 1.0 Entry-Level CHES/MCHES® Credits for this webinar in collaboration with the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, housed at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin. The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living is a Designated Provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) for Certified Health Education Specialists/Master Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES/MCHES®) through The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC®). For questions about credits, please email [email protected]

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Nicotine and Tobacco Use among College Students in Texas

Tobacco and nicotine use among young adults is a significant public health concern. Using data from large annually repeated cross-sectional samples of Texas college students, Dr. Caroline North will discuss the prevalence and trends in nicotine/tobacco use among Texas college students. Then, using data from the Vaping, Acculturation, and Media Study (Project VAMoS), a longitudinal cohort study of Mexican American college students in Texas, Dr. Bara S. Bataineh will discuss the role of social media in Mexican American young adults’ tobacco/nicotine use.

Speakers

Bara S Bataineh, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health

Caroline North, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Kinesiology & Health Education
Tobacco Research & Evaluation Team
The University of Texas at Austin

Moderators

Alexandra Loukas, PhD
Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies,
Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Kinesiology & Health Education
The University of Texas at Austin

Anna V Wilkinson, PhD
Associate Professor
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health

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