Upcoming Seminars at BMH.

New BMH Rheumatologist to Present Seminar on the Qualities of Vitamin D

Do you want to know more about Vitamin D? How it promotes bone health? How you and your healthcare provider can know if you are taking too little or too much? What its effect on muscle strength is, or on the immune system? And do you want to know more about vitamin D and cancer?

On Monday evening, March 31, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital will host a program called “Vitamin D: It’s Not What You Think, and Does More Than We Thought,” presented by Nicholas H. Bartenhagen, MD. This free program will be held from 7:00-9:00 PM in the Brew Barry Conference Center at BMH. Dr. Bartenhagen, the new rheumatologist on the BMH medical staff, will provide a more detailed and informative ‘cutting-edge’ overview of Vitamin D which he says is, in fact, not a vitamin, but an ancient hormone linking us to plankton and to the sun. He maintains that, even in the multivitamin era, its deficiency is still quite common, yet often overlooked. He further says that the impact of its untreated deficiency goes well beyond thinned bones. Dr. Bartenhagen’s interesting talk on this important subject will be delivered in plain English, and he will provide an illustrated summary sheet for you to take home.

Having come to his practice in Brattleboro a few months ago, Dr. Bartenhagen is also associated with Cheshire Medical Center / Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene. Prior to 2003, after ten years of private practice in Hartford, CT, he practiced rheumatology for 11 years in Pennsylvania at the Guthrie Clinic where he was chief of the department, and served as director of its osteoporosis diagnostic units.

Dr. Bartenhagen received his doctor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, after which he completed four years of internship and residency (his last as Chief Medical Resident) at State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY. He completed his Fellowship in Rheumatology at the Yale University Medical Center in Connecticut in the mid-1970s. While there he participated in investigations of and co-authored definitive publications on Lyme disease, which at that time was an unprecedented and ill-defined illness emerging in coastal New England communities.

Registration for this free session and other seminars offered in the Wellness in Windham County Calendar is recommended, although not mandatory. You may call 802-257-8877 to register so we can anticipate attendance to provide ample seating and prepare enough summary sheets.