June 12 2009
Harvard Continuing Education
EXERCISE AND THE BRAIN
John J. Ratey, MD ″ August 10-14, 2009
This course is designed so that participants will be able to:
- Instruct their patients on the brain changes resulting from routines of physical aerobic exercise that will help manage mood
- Instruct parents and children as to the many ways aerobic exercise makes the learner better prepared to learn by changing the attention, motivational, and impulsive control level as well as the many alterations that make the neurons ready to learn at the cellular level;
- Prescribe aerobic exercise regimens for patients to be maximizing their emotional health and cognitive function as they age.
For a complete course description, including the
daily curriculum, please visit:
http://www.cme.hms.harvard.edu/courses/depressionanxiety
June 18 2009 
Summer Health and Physical Education Conference
Sponsored by Boyertown Area School District
Our mission as a school district is “to enable all students to succeed in a changing world.” We desire to provide the best possible education for the students of the Boyertown Area and we consider it a privilege that we can impact the lives of so many student.
2009..Continue the momentum at the Summer Health and Physical Education Conference. Keynote speaker : John J Ratey MD, author of Spark – The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, will revive our vision with the most current research in body brain science, and how as educators we can provide the best environment for excellent performance and knowledge to acculturate lifelong fitness habits. Let’s Spark the Revolution for ourselves, our students, and the community.
June 19 2009
Practical Approaches to the Treatment of Obesity
Obesity Medicine
Emergence of a New Discipline
Harvard Medical School’s 23rd Annual International Conference
Practical Approaches to the Treatment of Obesity-
Keynote for the Department of Nutrition: John J Ratey, MD
For over 20 years we have strived to provide health care professionals with cutting edge tools and knowledge needed to apply practical approaches to the clinical management of obesity. John J Ratey, MD, one of the country's foremost authorities, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, will speak on the most critical topics related to obesity treatment and weight management.
Dr Ratey’s contributions will ensure that participants will gain knowledge of: identification, evaluation and management of high risk patient populations, current and future pharmacological approaches, strategies for long term weight management effective counseling and behavior modification techniques, principles of energy homeostasis, role of complimentary and alternative medicine in obesity management, pediatric obesity
June 21 2009
Midwest Brain Learning Institute
Healthy Brains, Engaged Learners
A Call for System Change
John J. Ratey, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, author of SPARK -The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, and The User's Guide to the Brain, will present current research in the brain/ body connection and prepare attendees to face the new paradigms and systems changes needed to get human physiology back on the evolutionary path and regain optimal mental and physical health.
July 13 2009
The Gurian Institute creates awareness and trains parents, teachers and members of youth-serving organizations about how boys and girls learn and grow differently
John J Ratey, MD will address The Gurian Institute, on July 13, 2009 on: Spark The Revolution.
Dr. Ratey has been called to the Gurian Institute to challenge leaders of youth organizations, teachers and parents to understand human dynamics and the role of exercise to optimize mental and physical health. Exercise is a key to cognition, mood, and optimal physiological functioning and as such, opens the door to understanding human potential.
July 15 2009 
SPARK THE REVOLUTION
Dr. Ratey will challenge Slippery Rock University with a new vision for the future of Physical Education. Stop just producing Coaches and Gym teachers. Change your mission and curriculum to reflect the NEW PE. Focus on lifelong health and wellness for all students.
July 16 2009
Chautauqua-State of the Mind, the chautauqua challenge -
On July 16, 2009, John R Ratey MD, author of Spark – The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, will challenge our thinking and our bodies. Optimal competence, creativity, thinking and health can only be achieved through exercise and its life giving benefits –benefits for the whole human being-body, soul and spirit.
August 8 2009
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Stanford School of Medicine – Exercise and the Brain Symposium to be held August 8, 2009 will focus on the current science and application of brain body science and Parkinson's Disease. Exercise and aging/physiology, and Exercise and Brain Mechanisms-Stem cell growth factors will be featured topics. John J. Ratey M.D. will be presenting on Exercise, Cognition and Mood.
August 10-15 2009 
Harvard Medical School - Continuing Education
Dr. Ratey's five day course first describes how important exercise is to us from an evolutionary perspective. It will show how exercise works by affecting the neurotransmitters and how this plays a huge role in moderating our moods and anxiety. The seminar will describe the role of exercise in making us more resilient and for stalling the aging process. It will elaborate on how exercise optimizes the person to be a better learner and help with ADHD, addictions and even bipolar and schizophrenia. This course is designed so that participants will be able to instruct their patients on the brain changes resulting from routines of physical aerobic exercise that will help manage mood; instruct parents and children as to the many ways aerobic exercise makes the learner better prepared to learn by changing the attention, motivational, and impulsive control level as well as at the many alterations that make the neurons ready to learn at the cellular level.
August 31 2009
Natick Public Schools – Kick Off The Year With Right - Exercise
Exercise enhances learning, helps students with concentration and attention, and is the foundation for a healthy life and future. Natick Public Schools will kick off the new school year preparing staff to incorporate exercise in school curriculum and classrooms.
Labor Day ~September 2-5 2009 ~ Monterey
Renaissance Weekends ® are about the transforming power of ideas and relationships
The participants' widely divergent interests, backgrounds and views enliven panels and conversations in historic and scenic settings, over meals, on beaches, mountain trails, golf courses, tennis courts and bike paths. Every Renaissance Weekend ® fosters lively exchanges which transcend ideological, political, economic and religious differences.
This eclectic, non-partisan group - CEOs, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, Nobel Laureates and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, artists and scientists, admirals, astronauts and Olympic athletes, judges and journalists, volunteers, diplomats and work-at-home parents, Presidents, Prime Ministers, professors and priests, Republicans, Democrats and lots of Independents, innovators from across America and several nations share innovative achievements on a national or regional scale and a "renaissance spirit" with broad-ranging intellectual interests.
Dr. Ratey will be presenting the science of exercise and the brain to this influential group of thought leaders, in his continued effort to spread the exercise revolution and reclaim physical and mental health.
September 25-26 2009
McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School 2nd Annual Coaching Conference
Belmont, MA - McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School,
announces its second annual coaching conference: Coaching in Medicine & Leadership on
September 25 and 26, 2009. Jointly sponsored by McLean and Harvard Medical School, the
conference will bring together the international founding contributors in the field to introduce
executive coaches, physicians, psychologists, health professionals, and coaches in healthcare, to
the theory, research, applications, and practices of coaching psychology and its application in the
domains of executive, life, and health/wellness coaching.
John Ratey, MD will present on lessons from neuroscience and ADD
coaching on facilitating change.
October 1, 2008
Lawler Spark Central
Keynote Speaker, John Ratey MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Author of SPARK
5:00-6:00
Tavelli Gym
Open House in Lawler Spark Central
4:00-4:50 and 6:00
Tavelli and the Fort Collins Community are privileged to have the renown Dr. John Ratey speak about the amazing effects of exercise on the brain - improving learning, thinking, and student achievement; stablizing mood and behavior, including AFHD; and keeping us fit and healthy by preventing obesity and associated issues such as type II diabetes. Plus, by attending this event, you will get a chance to experience, first hand, this state of the art, futuristic learning facility. This new exer-learning lab is the first in colorado and one of only a few nationwide. The lab is designed to fire up the brain, to prepare students to learn at maximum capacity. Strong research by Dr. Ratey and other leading brain researchers support the concept of this new lab.
Dr. Ratey will be speaking to the community sponsored by Poudre Valley Hospital, from 7:00 - 9:00 PM at Drake Centre, 802 West Drake Road.
October 4 2009
AMA Alliance... Building Healthy Communities.
The largest volunteer arm of theAmerican Medical Association, the AMA Alliance is a health advocacy network. The Leadership Development Conference, October 4-6, 2009 at the Chicago Marriott. Downntown, is a two-and-a-half day networking and team-building opportunity designed to boost membership growth and service throughout the country in support of health advocacy initiatives, health promotion and fundraising for medicine's future. The AMA Alliance organizes the meeting to prepare members for leadership in the largestorganization for the family of medicine. The conference attracts county and state Alliance leaders such as presidents, presidents-elect, membership chairs and newly nominated officers.
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Opening Session - Marriott Ballroom - 4 th floor . "The Intimate Health Connection Between the Body, the Brain and the Mind"
Speaker: John J. Ratey , M.D., will show that exercise does more than keep us physically fit — it keeps us mentally fit. Chances are that when you are on a treadmill or lifting weights, the last thing on your mind is how your workout affects our brain. But this is probably the first thing on Ratey's mind when he is at the gym.
Facilitator: Nancy Kyler, AMA Alliance President Dr. Ratey's most recent book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, shows the strong link between exercise and the brain's performance.
October 6 2009 Anaheim
Join the California School Boards Association, the California Department of Education, and the California Department of Public Health who are bringing together a diverse group of school community leaders who play a role in creating sustainable healthy school environments at the 2009 School Wellness Conference. We will build on the inaugural conference of 2007 that focused on best practices and resources; statewide success stories and model program workshops; improved access to healthy foods and physical activity opportunities; sample district policies that promote health on school campuses; and strategies to help schools succeed in implementing and evaluating their local school wellness policies.
Our school systems must keep abreast of recent findings in brain body research, and re-engineer our curriculum and paradigms of education to reflect up-to-date scientific truths.
The body and brain are one, and a healthy body produces a healthy mind. As the thinking processes and cognition evolved in concert with the evolution of the body, evidence reveals those students who are active physically will be better able to think and perform academically. Join us, as we welcome John J Ratey, M.D. who will challenge our thinking, call for a revamping of our ways, that will lead to improved outcomes and healthier life styles.
October 16 2009 
Common Hour - Keynote Speaker
Common Hour aims to provide an occasion for faculty, students, and staff to absent themselves from daily concerns, gather in common spaces, and engage in the ideas of speakers and the presentations of artists, and with each other in discussion of shared interests and concerns. The hour will seek to bring into the public Bowdoin forum the best of what happens in our academic departments, student groups, and the wider world: political commentary; discussion of scientific and technological issues; the work of writers, poets and journalists; philosophical ideas; the visual and performing arts; sports; business; and international affairs. In this forum, Dr. Ratey will challenge the students and faculty with the vital message of the role of exercise to optimize the body and brain.
October 17-18 2009
CADDRA, the Canadian Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Resource Alliance, is a national independent not-for-profit association. , the voice of doctors who support patients and their families, who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
CADDRA is dedicated to world class research, education, training and advocacy in the area of ADHD across the life-span. In fulfilling their mandate to facilitate development and implementation of training standards and guidelines host Dr. Ratey who will share information amongst their stakeholder groups.
October 21 2009
Phillip Academy ~ Andover
is a high school that stands ready to meet, match, and expand the minds and passions of its students and its energetic, one-of-a-kind educational community helps young people grow intellectually, artistically, athletically and morally. Committed to preparing students for a life time of excellence, Andover endeavors to acculturate students and faculty to the necessity of regular physical activity to promote physical and mental health, and unlock human potential. For this purpose,Dr. John Ratey, will be Professor of the Day, bringing this life changing message through Andover's campus wide initiative.
October 23 2009 The LAB SCHOOL of Washington
14th Annual Scientific Conference
Developing Self Control
Interventions for Children & Adolescents with Self Regulation Challenges
At their yearly science conference, the Lab School of Washington brings important new research and information relevant to the education and treatment of individuals with learning disabilities and ADHD to their community of educators and mental health professionals. 2009 conference, John J Ratey, MD will share his tremendously important work, discuss current research in body brain science, ADHD and exercise's role for optimal mental and physical health and its use to unlock human potential within our community. Don't miss this challenging message.
November 2 2009
Exercise, the evolutionary mandate for optimal mental and physical health is also the key to a healthy immune system. Human physiology, primed with exercise is best able to ward off infectious disease or malignancy, and is critical in the fight against existing disease, facilitating healing and restoration in some cases, or by keeping the body conditioned it is able to arrest the development of others. Understanding the importance of exercise, Novartis is sponsoring Dr. Ratey to speak to its world wide management team promoting the science of the brain body connection from top down, as a proactive wellness measure as well as promoting exercise as medicine.
November 3 2009
Nassau County Physical Education Consortium
Nassau County, New York, welcomes Dr. Ratey to an educators training
conference. As the exciting science of exercise and the brain sweep through the
academic and corporate worlds, leaders have begun to understand that the
physically equipped are the mentally equipped. In this competitive world, the
school system that wants to maximize the student's progress must provide a
foundation of physical activity to prime cognitive functioning. Dr. Ratey will
challenge the current educational paradigms – and call for the re-engineering of
the sedentary class room.
November 6 2009
MOVE YOUR HERD WAHPERD Mission Statement and Goals
The Wyoming Alliance is committed to providing assistance and support while empowering its membership to initiate, develop, and conduct programs in educating the public about the benefits of an active healthy lifestyle. Following the goals of the Wyoming Alliance: (1) To provide professional growth and development services; (2) To promote mandatory quality daily physical education, we welcome this year's keynote speaker, John J. Ratey, M.D. author of Spark the Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain and an exciting firebrand in the wellness revolution and war on chronic disease.
November 9 2009
US Navy Fitness, Sports and Deployed Forces - Fleet & Family Readiness Program
Exercise and the Brain Training Program – The importance of exercise for preparation of naval
personnel and their families. Optimal mental and physical health is needed to sustain the rigors
of military service and the resulting anxiety, stress, and depression that often accompany
returning service personnel. For the maximum state of readiness needed to make critical
decisions, Dr. Ratey will be training navy personnel in the science of exercise and the brain,
November 10 2009
University of Charleston - Charleston, West Virginia – Students, faculty and staff
Gather to hear John J Ratey, M.D. author of Spark – The Revolutionary New Science of
Exercise and the Brain who will present the Keynote: "Exercise for You and Your
Brain." The University of Charleston, preparing students for a successful future,
equips students to develop a healthy lifestyle, and embrace the wellness movement.
November 12 2009
10th Annual Maine Center for Public Health, Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention and Harvard Prevention Research Center Conference
Our 10 th annual conference will feature John J Ratey, M.D. as keynote speaker, to engage and activate the many stakeholders in Maine regarding the importance of physical activity/physical education with the aim to advocate successfully with policy makers at the state and local level. Our 2008 conference focused on chain food restaurant menu labeling and our efforts produced a strong menu labeling bill passed in the legislative session. Our aim is now turned toward passage of a physical activity bill.
November 14 2009
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Join distinguished faculty from Harvard Medical School and world class fitness and wellness practitioners for this highly interactive, exercise-centered course that will provide physicians with the necessary tools to assess and recommend changes in patients' levels of physical activity/exercise. Highlights include:
The state of the science of physical activity/exercise, nutrition, stress management, and coaching psychology
Interactive workshops on a wide range of exercise options including Pilates, spinning, resistance training, boxing, cardio conditioning, and individual fitness assessments
Leadership Summit: Exercise Prescription, A Call to Action featuring experts from govt., insurance, fitness, and medicine. Dr. John J.Ratey's Spark - the Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain will revolutionize your thinking and your practice Exercise, for life and wellness.
November 16-20 2009 
Common Ground Lecture Series
Common Ground is a coalition of Bay Area schools that have joined together to provide parent education to their communities. The coalition provides opportunities for parents to learn from experts in the fields of education and parenting, to share ideas with other parents,
and to support each other's efforts to enrich our school communities.
Dr. Ratey will be blitzing the Bay Area with the call to arms- restore exercise to its proper place and restore proper metabolic functioning – to combat chronic disease and optimize our natural mental and physical health. Unlock your human potential – exercise. Give your brain and body what they need to function optimally ! It's a message every parent and teacher need to hear and embrace.
November 21 2009
24th International Conference for Teachers, Administrators & Clinicians
November 20–22, 2009
Boston Marriott Cambridge and MIT Campus
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Cognitive neuroscience is finding that today's fast-paced, stressful, multi-tasking, media-driven, internet-isolating life is altering the way young minds develop, function, remember and process information. This conference will explore how these changes affect learning, memory and may contribute to learning problems. Discover ways to improve student memory, learning and achievement in today's distracted, digital society.
How technology is changing brains, memory and learning strategies to improve learning and memory in the classroom. The impacts of multi-tasking life on memory, learning and disorders, how societal stress, adversity and memory drugs affect students, and using new technology to improve learning, memory and reading.
Also how the effects of overloaded brains on ADHD, memory, autism & learning, the connections between information processing, memory and sleep, and influences of social networking on teen brains and relationships. Also what is the impact of television, technology and play on developing brains.
Can we improve scattered brains, executive skills and achievement. Acknowledging the differences in brains and skills of today's digital students and how we might guide them.
December 2-3 2009 
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso,
Mind & Its Potential is a truly ground-breaking conference that will change forever your understanding of the human potential to learn, change and overcoming adversity. It is an event based on the very latest science that is delivered in an accessible, stimulating and practical way featuring:
A fascinating Science of Mind Forum: a dialogue between
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a group of eminent scientists.
This forum showcases the
Dalai Lama's renowned interest and understanding of science combined with his compassion and concern for the wellbeing of humanity.
World renowned speakers: this conference features a dazzling line-up of 40 speakers from around the world including renowned neuroscientist
Baroness Susan Greenfield, acclaimed psychologist Dr Paul Ekman, Harvard evolutionary biologist Professor Marc Hauser, Dr. Martin Seligman, Directorfor the Center of Positive Psychology, and Dr. John Ratey author of Spark – The Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain
January 26 2010
TASA's Midwinter Conference has become the professional learning extravaganza for Texas school leaders. Superintendents across the state gather their leadership teams and head for Austin and a conference designed just for them. Join us for an event that celebrates, showcases, and enlightens public school leadership like no other event can. Budget and finance, curriculum and instruction, facilities planning, technology, assessment and more. Some of today's best and brightest are invited to keynote general sessions.
John Ratey, Clinical Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School presents.
LISTENING TO THE GREEKS: THE REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION BY REDISCOVERING THE BENEFITS
February 26-28 2010 Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
Spark - Unlocking Human Potential Through the Body-Brain Connection
This program is a call to get in sync with your metabolic design and a revolution against chronic disease and obesity. Join medical doctor, Harvard professor, and author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, John Ratey, for a weekend that will teach you how to return to your evolutionary roots and unlock your full human potential. This weekend, you will learn about the cutting-edge science behind Spark, including how physical exercise, movement and play supercharge your mental circuits. On Saturday afternoon Kripalu Nutriontionist, John Bagnulo, will lead an outdoor hike (weather permitting).
To register or to learn more about Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health ....Call or check our their website:
Phone : 1-800-741-7353
Website: www.kripalu.org
