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www.tucsonchamber.org Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Tucson, whose Resuscitation Research Group developed Cardiocerebral Resuscitation. How to Keep Your Back in Action, lecture and exercise demonstration Part of a series of Living Healthy with Arthritis monthly talks presented by the Arizona Arthritis Center at The University of Arizona College of Medicine. Back pain is the second-most common neurological ailment in the United States only headache is more common. Low back pain costs Americans about $50 billion annually in terms of lost work and medical expenses, according to the National Institutes of Health. Learn about the different causes, treatments and prevention methods to keep back pain from interfering with your work, life and recreation.

Offered on April 2, 2008 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the University Medical Center Chase Bank Auditorium, Room 8403. No cost, but please pre-register at 626-5040, or email michellecarth ritis.arizona.edu. Four alumnae of the College of Nursing at The University of Arizona in Tucson recently were presented awards for outstanding achievements from the UA Alumni Association at the College of Nursing's 50th Anniversary Celebrating Excellence in Nursing Science research conference.

The recipients were: The Governor's Conference on Aging will be held May 14-16 at the Mesa Convention Center and Marriott Mesa Hotel. This conference includes a major focus on Arizona workforce and civic engagement. Attendees will enjoy sessions geared for employers and workforce professionals in communities of all sizes, the Governor's Luncheon, networking receptions, community resources and interactive displays. Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is a confirmed keynote speaker. If you are interested in addressing workforce shortages, attracting and retaining mature workers, and learning more about new resources available to employers, this is a must attend conference.

Continuing Education Units for nursing home administrators and social workers are available. Please find more information at www.azagingconf.com or contact the Governor's Advisory Council on Aging at 602-542-471 0 or agingaz.gov. We're are so excited to ANNOUNCE the premiere of The Original Creative Festival at the Tucson Convention Center APRIL 17, 18, 19, 2008. It is a product and supply Festival for sew, quilt, needle-arts, craft consumer. Four days of top notched events, inspiration, and lots of shopping.

Pre-show hands-on workshops will begin on Wednesday April 16th and the Vendors Mall will open on Thursday April 17th thru Saturday April 19th. The Festival will include exhibitors from the Tucson area and from all over the United States. Made up of manufacturer's, retailers, designers and top internationally known teachers offering, Seminars, Workshops, Hands-on Make-it, Take-it Projects, Free Stage presentations, Ongoing Demonstrations, Special Quilt Exhibits to inspire you. Show specials offered only during the festival. This is the perfect opportunity to learn new sewing, quilting, needle arts, craft skills or simply sharpen current ones.

Exhibitors will be offering products on the cutting edge, as well as, traditional and hard to find supplies and gadgets to meet all creative needs. Admission: one day $8.00, two days $1 2.00, or three days $16.00. Parking $4.00. Group rates available. Nest cancer among women.

Baze describes her music as "a mix between Feist and Tori Amos." Preview her music at www.theyellowumbrella.org. CDs, raffle tickets and information about cervical cancer will available at the April 11 concert. Baze's Tucson concert is sponsored by the American Medical Women's Association, the American Medical Student Association and the American Medical Association at the UA College of Medicine, and by Philip Malan, MD, the college's vice dean of academic affairs. Dr. Daeyoung Roh, a medical doctor and leader of the underground church movement in North Korea will be the featured speaker the next Tucson Association of Evangelicals (TAE) meeting.

Dr.Roh is also the featured speaker for the Global Day of Prayer celebration. The mission of TAE is to foster relationships between pastors of diverse Christian denominations. Lunches are held 1 a month with various speakers who share on topics relevant to the community and local churches. Tucson Association of Evangelicals meets every 2nd Thursday of the month. All Tucson church leaders are welcome to attend.

Location: First Evangelical Free Church, 4700 North Swan Road Tucson, AZ 8571 8. Time: 1 1 Cost: Complimentary lunch will be served. Donations are appreciated and will help fund future TAE events. For more information about Tucson Association of Evangelicals please visit www.tucsonconnections.net. The Arizona Department of Commerce, along with economic development, non-profit and industry partners, is seeking bioscience firms to help showcase the state's growing assets and reputation at the world's largest annual biotechnology conference and exposition.

BIO 2008 will be held in San Diego, June 17-20, and is expected to draw more than 20,000 registrants from 60-plus nations. The international expo offers companies of all sizes an opportunity to promote their products and services while connecting with the industry's leading researchers, company executives, investors, and others. Boosting company participation at the Arizona Pavilion also helps in staking the state's claim as an emerging bioscience hotspot. Through participation with the Arizona delegation, companies can reduce their costs to attend the show and boost their presence and exposure. For more information about Arizona's plans for BIO 2008, or to participate in the Arizona delegation, contact Allison Grigg or (602) 771-1123.

On Tuesday, May 6, the Capitol Mall Association Arizona Department of Commerce Main Street Program, Arizona Preservation Foundation, Arizona State Historic Preservation Office will host a luncheon featuring Donovan Rypkema, Principal of Place Economics and internationally-acclaimed speaker and consultant on historic preservation issues. With "sustainability" a concept growing in popularity and acceptance, Rypkema will address "The Role of Historic Preservation in Sustainable Development." The event will be held from 1 1 :30 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m. at the Arizona Biltmore Resort Spa in Phoenix. To register or for more information, contact Kay Jerin at 602-340-0745 or kaycapitolmall.org.

Cost is $50 per person. 'go green' because we wanted to offer our homebuyers on-going savings and because we felt it was the right thing to do for our environment. However, it paid off by giving us a better quality product and we think that significantly contributed to winning this award. Simply, each home must be tighter, quieter and better built," Viner continued. "This will be the way we will build our homes as we go forward.

All upcoming communities will meet these standards." The final two initiatives instituted by Pepper Viner Homes were to establish a new program of homebuyer surveys and to execute a new software program that makes complete information about each home available both in the office and in the field. "Traditionally, homebuyers are surveyed after they are given the keys. We realized that if a client was unhappy or dissatisfied, there wasn't much we could do about it after the fact. We now survey at four benchmarks during the construction process. It gives the buyer a real voice during the building of the home and it gives us the opportunity to correct any problems while they are still minor problems," Viner continued.

The SAHBA Builder of the Year Award is based on a number of criteria, starting with professionalism, product quality and business ethics, but also including safety, community service and professional education, training and certification. Pepper Viner Homes won for the middle category, builders producing 100 to 449 units in the year. Survival after cardiac arrest increases three-fold with new Resuscitation Protocol in Arizona, JAMA Study Reports; the technique was developed at the University of Arizona. A new paramedic resuscitation method called Cardiocerebral Resuscitation has resulted in a three-fold increase in the survival rates of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The results are published in the March 1 2 issue of one the world's foremost medical journals, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Data were gathered from Arizona emergency medical service agencies for almost three years, before and after firefighters and paramedics were trained in this new resuscitation protocol for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (referred to as Minimally Interrupted Cardiac Resuscitation in the JAMA article). Developed at The University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center in Tucson, Cardiocerebral Resuscitation focuses on uninterrupted chest compressions and delays placement of a breathing tube. One subset analyzed the outcomes of 886 cardiac arrests that occurred outside a hospital setting in two metropolitan areas in Arizona. Survival to hospital discharge increased from 1 .8 percent before providers were trained in Cardiocerebral Resuscitation to 5.4 percent after training. Survival increase was even better (4.7 to 17.6 percent) in the subgroup of patients with the most favorable circumstances, in which bystanders witnessed the arrest and called 91 1 immediately and the heart was fibrillating (quivering), making it more receptive to shocks from a defibrillator.

"We encourage all emergency medical providers to evaluate their survival rates and, if they are not satisfactory, to institute Cardiocerebral Resuscitation and see if it improves survival," says Gordon A. Ewy, MD, who co-authored the JAMA article. Dr. Ewy heads the Sarver Heart Center at The University of Arizona College of Medicine in Terry Badger, PhD, RN, FAAN, director of the Nursing Systems Division, UA College of Nursing, who received The University of Arizona Alumni Association's Extraordinary Faculty Award for her work in research, service and teaching. Dr.

Badger Terry Badger, PhD, RN, FAAN Cancer survivor Christine Baze, an accomplished musician out of Boston and a vocal activist for raising awareness of cervical cancer, will perform a free public concert on Friday, is nationally and internationally recognized for her professional service. She is a member and officer in the Arizona Nurses Association and recently was inducted as a Fellow in the American Association of Nursing. She provides service and outreach statewide in the area of mental and behavioral health issues, including serving on the Southern Arizona Mental Health Corporation Board. Miyong Kim, PhD, RN, FAAN, received The University of Arizona Alumni Association's Recognition Award for her contributions to reducing health disparities in underserved minority populations, particularly Korean Americans. Dr.

Kim received her bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from the UA College of Nursing. Upon graduation, she accepted a research appointment at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she is an associate professor in the School of Nursing. She currently is the principal investigator of three federally funded research projects aimed at improving the health of Korean Americans, focusing on health literacy, diabetes care and high blood pressure. Darlene Mood, RN, MSN, NP-C, received The University of Arizona Alumni Association's Honorary Alumnus Award for her ongoing service and scholarly contributions to advance April 11, 5 p.m., in front of the Student Union Memo Christine Baze rial Center on the UA Mall. Baze celebrated her two-year remission from cervical cancer by forming her current band, Skills of Ortega, and playing a sell-out benefit concert in Boston to raise money for cervical cancer prevention.

She and another cervical cancer survivor, Tamika Felder, have formed Say Something (www.say-something.org) to raise awareness surrounding human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer, the fifth-dead-.