Eisenhower Medical Center to Discuss Testosterone, ED, PrEP at Men’s Health Event

By Judith Salkin

Eisenhower Medical Center is continuing to lead the charge in educating the community about men’s health issues with its free community event entitled “PerforMANce: Maintaining Health, Vigor and Vitality.” The event will be held at the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum on Saturday, February 27th beginning at 8:30am. In addition to a panel discussion and presentation on various men’s health issues including Testosterone issues, Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and PrEP (HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis), the event offers participants free breakfast and coffee as well as brunch hors d’oeuvres and cocktails.

Members of the community are invited to learn about key issues and advances in men’s health and meet the medical experts serving our Coachella Valley. This event is FREE and open to the community and no reservations are required, so guests are encouraged to invite their friends.

Complimentary brunch hors d’oeuvres and cocktails will be provided following the program.

Program Agenda:

8:30 to 9:30 a.m. – Registration and breakfast

9:30 to 11 a.m. – Physician panel of men’s health including:

• Testosterone replacement
• Erectile dysfunction
• PrEP and HIV prophylaxis

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – “Meet the Physicians” Brunch Hors d’Oeuvres and Cocktail Reception

Speakers for this event include; John Stansell, MD, Internal Medicine; Alex Del Rosario, MD, Internal Medicine; John Faulkner, MD, Urology; Kenneth Lichtenstein, MD, Internal Medicine.

Light refreshments will be served. All Community members are invited to participate.

As the valley’s only not-for-profit hospital, Eisenhower Medical Center has provided high quality, compassionate care for more than 40 years through a full range of state-of-the-art diagnostic, treatment and emergency facilities. Eisenhower is an accredited teaching hospital, with a School of Graduate Medical Education training new physicians in the specialties of family medicine and internal medicine.

Eisenhower Medical Center has locations across the Coachella Valley for convenient, quality health care. The main campus and hospital is located on 130 acres in Rancho Mirage. Eisenhower Medical Center is a dynamic, progressive health care complex comprised of a 463-bed hospital, the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower, and the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center at Eisenhower in addition to its outpatient facilities in Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage and La Quinta. The Betty Ford Center is also located on the Eisenhower campus. Eisenhower not only offers the highest quality health care for residents and visitors, but additionally provides a broad range of educational programs for the public, and for health care professionals. For more information, visit emc.org.