Active Girls Healthy Women hosting coffee talk on optimizing bone health
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 20, 2025) - The University of Kentucky’s Active Girls Healthy Women Program is hosting a Coffee Talk session noon Monday, Oct. 27, on Zoom. These events are open to all university and community members.
As part of the Sports Medicine Research Institute in the UK College of Health Sciences, the Active Girls Healthy Women Program is a group of researchers, clinicians and professionals who are working together to improve the health of girls and women through research, outreach and educational efforts.
Coffee Talks aim to discuss evidence-based strategies to advance girls’ and women’s physical activity and health. This month’s coffee talk topic is on how to optimize bone health for girls and women across their healthspan.
Topic: Optimizing Bone Health for Girls and Women Across the Healthspan
Date: Oct. 27
Time: noon
Location: Zoom (Register here)
Speaker: Jocelyn Wittstein, M.D., orthopedic surgery, Duke University Medical Center.
Wittstein specializes in sports medicine and women’s joint health, with pioneering research on arthritis, adhesive capsulitis and the role of hormones in bone and joint aging.
A former collegiate gymnast, runner and mom of athletes, she is passionate about helping athletes of all ages return to the activities they love.
As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing, a place where ingenuity unfolds. It's all made possible by our people — visionaries, disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs, a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class medical center, all on one campus.