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Spotlight: The Living Endowment
"Endowment gifts link today with forever. They are the backbone of organizational effectiveness, providing support for present and future needs and opportunities in perpetuity. A gift to the Osher Center's Living Endowment will span generations and provide access to new possibilities in health and healing."
--Carol and Norman Traeger
The UCSF Osher Center would like to thank Carol and Norman Traeger for their visionary support of the Osher Center’s Living Endowment with a gift of $25,000, making them charter members of our Health Visionary Circle.
An annual gift to the Osher Center's Living Endowment supports vital programs of the Center and includes your membership in the Health Visionary Circle.
Health Visionary Circle members receive recognition as charter members of the Living Endowment and have special access to the Center's leadership and faculty, Osher Center Patient Navigator "Concierge" service, special invitations and guest passes to our Health Visionary Luncheon and Dinner Series events, meetings and lectures, and our integrative medicine newsletter.If you would like more information about the UCSF Osher Center's Living Endowment Campaign and the Health Visionary Circle, please contact:
Maureen Smith.
Special thanks to Carol and Norman Traeger. |
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Osher Center in the Community: Positive Affect
Through a competitive process, Judy Moskowitz, PhD, MPH, was awarded a $2.5 million five-year grant from the NIH/NIMH to study the effects of increasing positive emotion in patients recently diagnosed with HIV. As past research indicates, a more positive emotion predicts a lower risk of mortality among AIDS patients. Dr. Moskowitz hopes to determine the effects of increasing positive emotion among people newly diagnosed with HIV. As you can imagine, this study holds great promise for improving the lives of millions affected by this disease.
To increase your own positive mood, even in times of stress, Dr. Moskowitz suggests trying any or all of the following:
- Note positive events in daily life
- Capitalize on and amplify positive events- by telling someone else about them, writing about them, or just thinking about them later
- Keep a daily gratitude list
- Practice mindfulness
- Practice positive reappraisal by thinking about something positive that came out of a stressful event
- Focus on your personal strengths
- Set realistic/attainable goals
- Practice altruistic behaviors/small acts of kindness
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Mindfulness in Times of Financial Uncertainty: a message from Maureen Smith
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather
of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
--Frederick Keonig (1774 - 1833)
The current financial crisis is causing much pain and worry for many people. It is difficult to know which steps to take when so much of the situation seems out of our own personal control. However, as is the case with any time of stress, caring for ourselves is one thing that is within our control. Our own health and well-being is paramount to our ability to think clearly and creatively to address the situation and bring about recovery.
To do so, we can apply many of Dr. Moskowitz’s (see above) suggested techniques, such as gratitude and positive reappraisal, to our experience of this financial uncertainty.
Perhaps the brighter side of the financial crisis is that it gives us all an opportunity to find comfort and contentment in things other than material wealth. It is a time in which we can recognize and appreciate what we do have in our lives today.
My New Year’s resolution is to take a few moments each day to detach from my worrying mind and focus on the present moment. In this moment, I can be grateful for what I have in my life today: good health, good friends, and a wonderful family.
When I feel this gratitude, it restores me, and I find I have more internal and external resources available to help those around me.
I want to express my gratitude to all of you for your support of the UCSF Osher Center. With your support, we are able to give people the tools and skills they need to prevent stress related illness and empower people to live healthier lives.
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Fundraising Progress
Friends of the UCSF Osher Center have an unprecedented opportunity to ensure the continued growth and
enrichment of the Center. Contributions to the Osher Center priorities are growing:
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