Baptist Health Lexington free workshop series to focus on the brain

Scheduled for Wednesdays in May

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 29, 2015) — Baptist Health Medical Group Neurology and Baptist Health HealthwoRx will offer a free educational series, Brainworks at HealthwoRx, from 1-2:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in May at HealthwoRx in Lexington Green.

The series is designed to offer attendees information to help them live well and take control of their health.

Topics and speakers are:

• May 6 — “Living Well with a Diagnosis of MCI or Dementia,” Greg Cooper, MD, PhD, neurologist with Baptist Health Medical Group Neurology and the Memory Care Clinic.
• May 13 — “Mind over Matter: Strategies for Memory and Thinking,” Sarah Groppo-Lawless, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology at Baptist Health Lexington
• May 20 — “Eat, Move, Live: How Food and Movement Protect Memory,” Melanie Johnson, MS, RD, LD, HealthwoRx dietitian and Grant Gensheimer, MS, CPT, HealthwoRx exercise physiologist
• May 27 — “Coping and Adjusting to a Memory Loss Diagnosis,” April Stauffer, MS, Alzheimer’s Association