Annual Community Event
The Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research Annual Community Event has served as the Ludeman Center's signature educational and fundraising event for 19 years. It began as a small gathering in the basement of the Tattered Cover and has grown to an 800 person sold out event. Attendees and sponsors appreciate the unique evidence-based research and scientists consistently featured at the event. This event focuses on educating the community about important health issues and highlighting women's health and sex differences research.
Join us September 28, 2023
Seawell Ballroom at the Denver Center for Performing Arts
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Featuring Shankar Vedantam
Creator, Host and Executive Editor of the Hidden Brain podcast and radio show and the CEO of Hidden Brain Media.
Shankar Vedantam is the host and executive editor of the Hidden Brain podcast and radio show, as well as the CEO of Hidden Brain Media.
From 2011 to 2020, Vedantam was a social science correspondent for NPR. Before joining NPR, Vedantam spent 10 years as a reporter at The Washington Post. From 2007 to 2009, he was also a columnist, and wrote the Department of Human Behavior column for the Post.
Vedantam is the author of the book The Hidden Brain: How our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives. He is also the co-author, along with Bill Mesler, of Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain. Vedantam has served as a lecturer at many academic institutions, including Harvard University and Columbia University.
Questions? Email ludemancenter@cuanschutz.edu or call 303-724-9179.
Thank you to our 2023 Annual Community Event Benefactors!
PRESENTING SPONSOR
LEADING
Richard N. Brown Family
Catherine & Ray Petros
Betsy & Peter Mangone
Judith B. Wagner
Cathy & Graham Hollis
Sharon & Lanny Martin
MENTORING
Margaret & Steven Bathgate Patti Klinge & Connie McArthur
Cathy and Graham Hollis Jim & Patience Linfield
Nan & Spike Eklund Sharon & Lanny Martin
Nancy Tankersley John Daily
Betsy Wagner Maureen & Alan Bird
Brenda & Don Lewis Nan & Hugh Williamson
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Sustaining
Betty & David Arkell Bill Ernstrom & Janie Hanson-Ernstrom
Carol Frank Olivia Thompson
CU Department of Medicine CU Department of Pediatrics
Jan & John Meck Judy Regensteiner & Ken Schneider
CU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Cathy & Mark Hart Eileen Honnen McDonald
Wendy Kohrt University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Jane & Jay Reusch
Advocate
CU Department of Psychiatry Toni Cohig
Laura& Stephen Brown Laura Brown
Katie MacWilliams CU Division of General Internal Medicine
Hathor Blue - Jill & Jeff Montera Wellborn, Sullivan, Meck, Tooley, P.C.
The Engleby Family
Advocate
Peter Culshaw Margot Gilbert
Jane Rosenbaum Brown & Company
COPIC Insurance Company Mary Noonan & Ray Garver
Agneta Albinsson Mary Stuart
Delta Dental of Colorado
Past Luncheon Keynote Speakers
2022 Annual Community Event - Lisa Genova, PhD
2021 Annual Community Event - Jennifer Mieres, MD
2020 Annual Community Event - Laurie Santos, PhD
2019 Annual Community Luncheon - Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD
2018 Annual Community Luncheon - First Lady Laura Bush and Marjorie Jenkins, MD
2017 Annual Community Luncheon - C. Neill Epperson, MD
2016 Annual Community Luncheon - Larry Cahill, PhD
2015 Annual Community Luncheon - JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH
2014 Annual Community Luncheon - Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA
2013 Annual Community Luncheon - Eve Van Cauter, PhD
2012 Annual Community Luncheon - Alice Waters
2011 Annual Community Luncheon - Mother Love
2010 Annual Community Luncheon - Patrick Schamasch, MD
2009 Annual Community Luncheon - I-Min Lee, MD
2008 Annual Community Luncheon - Nanette Kass Wenger, MD
2007 Annual Community Luncheon - Ginger L. Graham
2006 Annual Community Luncheon - Francine R. Kaufman, MD
2005 Annual Community Luncheon - JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD