Free workshop

Free workshop

BOARDMAN

Mercy Health Youngstown, formerly Humility of Mary Health Partners, is offering a one-hour workshop, “Health at Home,” from 11 a.m. to noon Feb. 16 at in the Woodland Room at St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital, 8401 Market St.

The workshop and all materials are free, but reservations are required. Call 330-480-3070.

The workshop includes a reference guide that provides information about more than 200 common health problems as well as tips on caring for one’s self and family, preventing illness and injury, and advice on when to seek medical attention.

Free presentations on healthful eating

WARREN

A series of three weekly “Healthy Eating for You” presentations are offered from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Thursdays beginning Feb. 11 in the Warren Room at St. Joseph Warren Hospital, 667 Eastland Ave., S.E.

Topics are “Portion Control,” Feb. 11; “Label Reading,” Feb. 18; and “Eating Mindfulness,” Feb. 25.

Registered dietitian and community educator Bridget Lackey will lead the informational discussion and answer questions. The presentation, provided by Mercy Health Youngstown, is free and open to the public. Parking is free. Reservations are appreciated. Call 330-480-3070.

Mind and body discussion

ROOTSTOWN

As the health-care world takes a more holistic view of the mind and body, a university, a symphony orchestra and a hospital are each hosting events featuring Dr. Richard Kogan, a Harvard Medical School-trained psychiatrist, acclaimed pianist and artistic director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program in New York City. He speaks regularly on the mind-body connection at meetings of the American Psychiatric Association.

At noon Friday in the Ralph Regula Center of Northeast Ohio Medical University, Dr. Kogan will discuss connections between creativity and mental illness in a lecture-demonstration featuring piano music by the 19th-century romantic composer Robert Schumann, whose illustrious career and troubled life ended in a mental institution. He also will present a performance for clinicians at Akron City Hospital on Friday afternoon.

The noon lecture-demonstration, titled “Musical Genius and Psychiatric Illness,” is for the NEOMED community but is also open to the media.

The event marks a continued NEOMED/ASO collaboration. The Margaret Clark Morgan endowed chairman and professor of psychiatry at NEOMED, Dr. Mark Munetz, has assisted two student groups – Musicians in Medicine and the Psychiatry Interest Group – in presenting the NEOMED lecture-demonstration.

In a public performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dr. Kogan will speak about creativity and perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Akron Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Wilkins at E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron.

Vaccines for kids at Warren clinics

WARREN

The Warren City Health District, 258 E. Market St., Suite 327, will conduct childhood immunization clinics from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. on Monday and Feb. 22; March 7 and 21; and April 11 and 25. No appointment is necessary. The child should be free of fever, rash or illness. An updated shot record is required, and there is a $10 fee. Bring insurance cards. For information, call 330-841-2596.