BCP Tuesday Talks

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10:30 in the BCP Theater

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Tuesday, April 23 – Medical Insurance - Magda Crespo presents All About Insurance! 

How to use our medical plans in Panama, and the differences in how insurance works here. She will speak about the plans she has available, deductibles, co-payments, etc..  She will also address the "gringo prices" and how to avoid them.

 

   Moderator:  Louise Orr

 

Tuesday, April 30 – The Vision of the Boquete Veteran Outreach organization is to FACILITATE for any Boquete Veteran and their significant others Private Reconciliation in all aspects of their life, whether Physically, Emotionally, Mentally of Spiritually.  Our mission is to provide a safe place for all Boquete Veterans to share anything discretely, confidentially and with confidence. To be done by:

 

·         TRANSPORTATION SHARING

·         INFORMATION SHARING

·         REFERRALS AND/OR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR

·         PEER TO PEER INTERACTION

   Moderator:  Louise Orr

 

Tuesday, May 7 – The Industrial Potential of Panama’s Medicinal Plants.  There are key medicinal plants that have international markets and can be cultivated here in Panama.  We will provide advice on taking an arts & crafts production to the industrial export level. Presented by Frank Gruber

      Moderator:  Cheryl Schmidt

 

Tuesday, May 14 – TBD 

      Moderator:  Joanie Feuerstein

 

Tuesday, May 21 – The Primates Project at UNACHI was born in middle 2016 inside an initiative of environment conservation and monitoring of the Primates population in lowlands of the Chiriqui province. The project reunites investigators and students from UNACHI with the public in general. This project has developed some activities in different districts and areas in the province; but its main objectives are orientated to the study and conservation of the primates, though talks, monitoring studies, internships, education campaigns and workshops in Chiriqui.

Dr. Ariel Rodríguez-Vargas, Biologist, specialist in conservation and environmental studies, works as a researcher in the Universidad Autonoma de Chiriqui (UNACHI) and is the primate project director.

Dra. Laura Patiño Canom  chemistry specialist in natural products, works as a researcher in the Universidad Autonoma de Chiriqui (UNACHI) and is the primate project group coordinator.

 

      Moderator:  Cheryl Schmidt

 

Tuesday, May 28  - “The Healthy Living Series” presented by Boquete Health and Hospice

                             “It’s a Matter of Heart”

·         What to do if you think you might be having a heart attack in Boquete

·         Heart Health Snafus & Bungles

·         High altitude exposure and heart conditions

·         Blood Donation Initiative

 

Presenter: Charlotte Lintz

With a Master’s Degree as a Cardiovascular Clinical Nurse Specialist, Charlotte worked in Critical Care & as a Critical Care educator for over 25 years.  After going back to school to be a Nurse Practitioner (at age 50) she worked for a Cardiovascular Physician group in Orlando, Florida.  She then moved to Gainesville, Florida, and was a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner for WWII Veterans until “retiring” in Boquete to volunteer for Boquete Health & Hospice and....rescue dogs.  If you have any skinny, starving, injured dogs or puppies, Please DON’T bring any more to her house!  5 are enough! 

 

             Moderator: Joanie Feuerstein

 

Tuesday, June 4 – TBD

 

Tuesday, June 11 – What is grief?  How do we handle it?

Donna O'Brien, former grief counselor, will present a brief discussion of Grief, how we experience it, and when it becomes a problem for us.

 

     Moderator:  Sheila Strunk

 

 

 

 

 To suggest a speaker or topic for these meetings, please email talks@eventsboquete.org

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