Bookmark and Share

News Releases by Subject and Date

Research
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Your Health
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Medical and Dental Education
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Miscellany
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
All Subjects
2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

News Release

October 13, 2010

Contact: Chris Kaminski, 860-679-4352
e-mail: kaminski@nso.uchc.edu

Exploring Knee, Hip Preservation, Replacement

Free Discovery Series Program October 28

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Why spend another day without the freedom to perform daily activities or participate in sports because of knee and hip pain? The University of Connecticut Health Center’s Discovery Series will present a program on new advances that can diminish knee and hip pain on Thursday, October 28.

The program is free and starts at 7 p.m. in the UConn Health Center’s Keller Auditorium. To register, call 800-535-6232 or register online at http://discoveryseries.uchc.edu.

Drs. Thomas M. DeBerardino, Jay R. Lieberman and Gregory G. Polkowski II, experts from the UConn Health Center’s New England Musculoskeletal Institute, will discuss joint preservation techniques for the knee and hip, as well as total joint replacement surgery.

The next Discovery Series program will be Tuesday, November 9, on common problems of the hand and wrist.

To get to the UConn Health Center main entrance: Entering the campus from Route 4, at the first stop sign, continue straight. Bear left at the fork and continue up the hill. The main entrance is straight past the next stop sign. Visitor parking is available on the other side of the gate. Directions to the UConn Health Center are available at http://www.uchc.edu/directions/home.html.

UConn Health includes the schools of medicine and dental medicine, the UConn Medical Group, University Dentists, and John Dempsey Hospital. Home to Bioscience Connecticut, UConn Health pursues a mission of providing outstanding health care education in an environment of exemplary patient care, research and public service. More information about UConn Health is available at www.uchc.edu.

Note: News professionals are invited to visit the UConn Health Today news page (http://today.uchc.edu) for regularly updated news and feature stories, photos and media stories. News releases are archived at http://today.uchc.edu/newsreleases/2014. UConn Health news and information is also available on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.