With the objective of innovating on preventive and clinical care through the extension of student’s horizons to different disciplines in Sinaloa, from October 5th to 9th, the Technological Innovation Park (PIT) of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) is going to offer the course Mouth, Gut, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journey, that will be imparted by the PhD student Juliano Morimoto, Brazilian scholar from the University of Oxford. To the event will attend UAS’ medicine, nutrition, dentistry, biology and psychology students, who will have the opportunity to get in contact with an international interdisciplinary researcher and, in this way, stimulating such sort of interaction.

The program includes the explanation of the importance of developing a common language among the students from different health disciplines, in order to generate preventive and operative standpoints that may provide a complete and efficient treatment to patients from different specialties. Besides, issues of great interest to public health, such as digestion (with emphasis on the hormones that regulate food intake in the brain), depression and obesity, will be addressed from the point of view of nutrition, medicine, dentistry and psychology.

Furthermore, in the practical part of the event, the students will work in teams to complete activities. In this sense, it is expected to have collaboration, via a videoconference, with PhD Elaine Benelli (who currently manages an interdisciplinary health project in Brazil), which will bring to the students the opportunity of making some questions about the practice of healthcare’s interdisciplinary perspective and how this changes the result of preventive and operative standpoints.

The course is scheduled from Monday to Friday, from 15:00 to 18:00 hours, at the PIT-UAS’ Training Room. It will begin on October 5th and its ending is envisaged to be the 9th day of the same month.

Written by Moroni Arellano (Communication and Diffusion, PIT-UAS), translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).