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   o Lawrence Abrams, EdD, dean, College of Allied Health Sciences
(CAHS) and vice president for student affairs, and Albert D. Herbert
Jr., MS, RT(R), director of the University Office of Minority Affairs
and chairman, CAHS department of diagnostic imaging, and their wives are
co-chairpersons for the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Cancer
Society's Relay for Life.  A 24-hour, team-oriented fundraising event,
the Relay for Life will take place June 24 and 25 at St. Joseph's
University.

   o At a recent scientific program, the Society of Computed Body
Tomography/Magnetic Resonance recognized first author Eric K. Outwater,
MD, assistant professor of radiology, for the outstanding scientific
paper in the magnetic resonance group. The paper, "Endorectal Coil
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Prostatic Carcinoma: Assessment of
Diagnostic Criteria for Capsular Penetration," was presented by
co-author, Evan S. Siegelman, MD, a former MRI fellow. The research
assessed the criteria that radiologists use to determine the stage or
extent to which prostate cancer has spread. Other authors are: Chris
Chernesky, MD, MRI fellow; Robert Petersen, MD, PhD, professor of
pathology and cell biology, and Leonard G. Gomella, MD, associate
professor of urology.


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