Your Legs, Your Life
Matthew Allison, MD, MPH, will deliver a lecture on the importance of sustaining healthy legs at the UCSD Stein Institute for Research on Aging. His lecture will cover various diseases that impede on leg function and potential treatment options.
In the Garren Auditorium at the Biomedical Sciences Building.
Dr. Allison is currently a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UC San Diego and the director of the Non-invasive Vascular Laboratory at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. His research and clinical practice focuses on the prevention of cardiovascular disease by examining risk factors for lower extremity peripheral arterial disease and chronic venous disease. Dr. Allison is a fellow of the American Heart Association and a diplomat of the American Board of Preventive Medicine.