LOMA LINDA - Experts from around the country will speak, present research and offer tips at "Healthy People 2012: The Lifestyle Conference" at Loma Linda University on March 6-7.

Healthy People 2012, sponsored by Loma Linda University Medical Center, is an annual lifestyle conference that attracts top-level speakers and is open to the public. This year's theme is "Healthy Aging and Living Whole."

The conference will define the "Top 10 Lifestyle Priority Areas" necessary for healthy aging.

Dr. Walter M. Bortz, clinical associate professor of Stanford University School of Medicine and author of the bestselling book, "Dare to be 100" and Dr. Bruce Rabin, medical director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Healthy Lifestyle Program, will give presentations at the conference, to be held at the Loma Linda University Drayson Center, 25040 Stewart St.

"We are very excited and looking forward to hearing valuable insights from Dr. Bortz and Dr. Rabin," said Krystal Sky Gheen, assistant director for continuing education at LLU School of Public Health and coordinator of Healthy People 2012.

"The speakers are leading authorities in the area of longevity and conference participants will certainly benefit from hearing both of them," she said.

Dr. Don Wright, deputy assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will give the keynote on "National Prevention Strategy and Healthy People 2020 initiatives.

Dr. Jane Wright (no relation), of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will speak on "The Million Hearts Initiative" to prevent a million heart attacks and strokes in five years.

Bortz is speaking during the March 6 session as is Janet Wright and Don Wright; Rabin will speak on March 7.

Dr. Wayne Dysinger, chairman of the Loma Linda University Department of Preventive Medicine, will speak March 7 on "Stress Reduction and Prioritizing Rest."

Dora Barilla, director of community benefits for Loma Linda University Medical Center, will lead a special session on March 6, called Power of Transformation in Health Care.

For more information and to register for the conference, go to healthypeopleconference.org

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Experts on longevity to highlight Healthy People 2012 conference