Calendar
Blood Donor Center hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Please call 5-7791 to schedule appointment if you are eligible and willing to give blood.
JUNE 1 - 30 is National Hernia Awareness, National Safety, National Scleroderma Awareness and Vision Research month.
JUNE 1 - JULY 4 is Eye Injuries Prevention and Fireworks Safety month.
JUNE 1 - 8 is Nursing Assistant’s week.
JUNE 4 - 10 is National Aphasia Awareness and National Headache Awareness week.
JUNE 12 - 18 is National Men’s Health week.
JUNE 27 is National HIV Testing day.
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Tuesday, June 13
• Lesbian and gay lunch group for staff, students and other members of the Jefferson community, noon, room 202, 1015 Chestnut. Call Naomi at 5-2578.
• Jefferson Cocaine Treatment Program, Justin Williams, BA, Defender Association of Philadelphia, Forensic Intensive Recovery (FIR) Program, “Alternatives To Incarceration for Substance Abusers,” noon to 2 p.m., 2nd floor conference room, 1021 S. 21st Street.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Thursday, June 8
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Wilkie, MD, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, “G Protein Signaling in Heart Development and Physiologic Stress,” 4 p.m., Connelly Conference Hall, BLSB.
Thursday, June 22
• Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
LECTURE
Monday, June 5
• HIV Caregivers, Patrick McManus, MD, Director Youth Emergency Services (YES), “HIV in Our Teenagers,” 8 a.m., 9330 Gibbon.
FORUM
• Health Policy, Mark Bachieda, PharmD, Outcomes Research Fellow, Janssen; Amy Drabinski, PharmD, MBA, Outcomes Research Fellow, Knoll Managed Care; Dennis Meletiche, PharmD, Health Economics Fellow, SmithKline Beecham, “Fellowship Pharmacoeconomics Projects,” 8:30 a.m., 105 Curtis.
GRAND ROUNDS
Thursday, June 1
• Medicine, Neal Flomenberg, MD, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, Director, Hematologic Malignancies and Marrow Transplantation Program, “Bone Marrow Transplantation in the New Millennium,” 8 a.m., DePalma Aud.
Tuesday, June 6
• Pediatrics, Guy Webster, MD, PhD, Vice Chair, Clinical Director, Dept. of Dermatology & Cutaneous Biology, “HIV Manifestations of Skin Disease,” 8 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Wednesday, June 7
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Lewis Rose, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine/Medical Oncology, “Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Update II: Advanced Disease,” 8 a.m., G312 Bodine.
• Pediatrics, The Residency Program, “Selected Presentations by Senior Pediatric Residents from the Residency Program,” 8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Family Medicine, Leanne Rutter, MD, Third Year Resident, “The Changing Face of Diabetes: Non-Type I Diabetes in Youth,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Ilany Kogan, MA, Psychologist, Rehovot, Israel, “The Second Skin: Treatment of a Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma Aud.
Thursday, June 8
• Medicine, Chris Frankel, MD, Kathryn Ussai, MD, and Henry Schairer, MD, Chief Medical Residents, 1999-2000, Internal Medicine Residency Program, 8 a.m., DePalma Aud.
Tuesday, June 13
• Pediatrics, Robert L. Brent, MD, PhD, DSc, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Radiology and Pathology, Louis and Bess Stein Professor of Pediatrics, JMC, Research Department - Head of Clinical and Environmental Teratology, duPont Hospital for Children, “Counseling Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivors About Their Fertility and Reproductive Risk,” 8 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Wednesday, June 14
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Kevin Kelley, MD, Medical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, “Medical Management of Prostate Cancer,” 8 a.m., G312 Bodine.
• Family Medicine, Kathleen Wagner, MD, Instructor, “Obstetrical Statistics: 1999-2000,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Pediatrics, Carol Taylor, CSFN, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, “Ethics, Integrity & Everyday Decision Making,” 8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, E. Marshall Goldberg, MD, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Creative Arts, “On Writing and Publishing Medical Fiction,”10:30 to noon, DePalma Aud.
Thursday, June 15
• Medicine, Commencement Exercises for Graduating Internal Medicine PGY 3 Residents, Presentor: Gregory Kane, MD, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, 8 a.m., DePalma Aud.
• Emergency Medicine, Charles Pollack, MD, Clinical Associate Professor Surgery/Emergency Medicine University of Arizona College of Medicine, Emergency Department Chair, Maricopa Medical Center, “New Treatments in Unstable Angina & Non-Q Wave MI,” 9 a.m., 218 Curtis.
Tuesday, June 20
• Pediatrics, Departmental staff meeting.
Wednesday, June 21
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Gaetano Cardi, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Neoplastics, JMC, “Kidney Cancer,” 8 a.m., G312 Bodine.
• Family Medicine, John Abruzzo, MD, Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, “Osteoporosis,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Pediatrics, Stephen Lawless, MD, Associate Professor, JMC, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, duPont Hospital for Children, “Satiation and Science – Perfect Together,” 8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Loren Crabtree, MD, Medical Director, Project Transition, “The Best of the Old and the New: Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, Therapeutic Community & Holistic Medicine: Project Transition,” 10:30 a.m. to noon, DePalma Aud.
Thursday, June 29
• Medicine, Medical Staff Meeting, 8 a.m., DePalma Aud.
Tuesday, June 27
• Pediatrics, Lindsey Lane, MD and Catherine Schomer, MD, Pediatrics, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and duPont Hospital for Children, “Early Childhood Literacy,” 8 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Wednesday, June 28
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Elisabeth Kunkel, MD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, JMC, “Recognition and Management of Depression in Patients Being Treated for Cancer,” 8 a.m., G312 Bodine.
• Family Medicine, Randa Sifri, MD, Karen Novielli, MD, and Cynthia Cheng, MD, PhD,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Pediatrics, Dennis Durbin, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, “Injuries to Children in Automobile Crashes: Epidemiology and Biomechanics,” 8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Abraham Freedman, MD, Honorary Clinical Professor, “Sexuality, Creativity and Repression,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma
Aud.
MEETINGS
Friday, June 2
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. Board, 9:30 to 11 a.m., Connelly Conference Hall, BLSB.
Monday, June 5
• Scientific and Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, 9 a.m., Connelly Conference Hall, BLSB.
• Full Board of Trustees, noon, 636 Scott.
Tuesday, June 6
• JMC Executive Council, 1:30 p.m., 218 Curtis.
Wednesday, June 14
• TJUH Medical Staff, 4 p.m., McClellan Hall.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Monday, June 5
• Kimmel Cancer Center, “Cancer Survivors Day Celebration,” 4 to 7 p.m., BLSB. All survivors, family members, friends and staff are welcome. Events will include an art exhibit, music, food and special stories of inspiration by cancer survivors. Call 5-8370.
Friday, June 9
• Jefferson Medical College (JMC) Alumni Association Reunion Weekend, Friday, June 9 and Saturday, June 10, various sites. JMC Alumni Banquet, Friday, June 9, 7 p.m., The Union League of Philadelphia, Achievement Awards, Recognizing the Fiftieth Reunion Class.
WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
Saturday, June 10
• Mindfulness Meditation – Stress Reduction Program, full day class, Wednesday, June 28, 9 to 11:30 a.m., Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Center City Campus, Thursday, June 29, 6:30 to 9 p.m., plus full day class on Saturday, June 10, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital – Ford Road Campus. Call 215-955-1376.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
Wednesday, June 7
• Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call Hyacinth Williams at 215-474-0864. Also Wednesdays, June 14, 21 and 28.
Thursday, June 8
• Interfaith Prayer and Meditation Service, noon, Chapel, 9 Gibbon. Anyone from any faith is welcome. During brief service silent prayer is offered from requests written in books placed in the Chapel, Bodine Cancer Center and several other hospital areas. Also Thursdays, June 15, 22, and 29.
SUPPORT GROUPS
• Caregiver support/education, one-time phone consultation with a Jefferson Geriatric Psychiatry Program staff member. For consultation appointment, caregivers of older adults may call 215-928-3084.
• Epilepsy Foundation of Southeastern Pennsylvania (EFSEPA), Epilepsy Support Group for Women, Joyce D. Liporace, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Jefferson Medical College, and Lisa Pfeifer, Clinical Coordinator for Penn Epilepsy Center at University of Pennsylvania, Co-facilitators, July 25. Contact Sue Livingston, Director, Community Education, Outreach and Family Services, EFSEPA, at 1-800-887-7165.
Thursday, June 1
• Breast Cancer group, held the first and third Thursday of every month, 5:30 to 7 p.m., M-24, JAH. No registration necessary. Call 5-8370. Also Thursday, June 15.
Tuesday, June 6
• Women’s Health Source, Kimmel Cancer Center and Patient and Volunteer Service, “Look Good, Feel Better,” an American Cancer Society program that teaches women ways to cope with the appearance related side effects of cancer treatment, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Women’s Health Source, 1900 Gibbon. To register, call 5-8370.
• Lupus support and education group, held the first Tuesday of every month, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 204 College. Call Darlene Croce at 5-5826.
Wednesday, June 7
• Jefferson Headache, a patient-led group open to anyone with chronic headache pain, is held the first Wednesday of every month, 7 to 9 p.m., Jefferson Headache Center, 8130 Gibbon. Call Mary Ellen Crowley at 215-247-0855.
Monday, June 12
• Patients and employees wishing to learn about in-vitro fertilization (IVF) related assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can attend a free evening seminar held at 5217 Militia Hill Road, Plymouth Meeting, RSVP 610-834-1140.
Tuesday, June 13
• The Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center holds a support group the second Tuesday of every month, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., 4130 Gibbon, David S. Glosser, ScD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Director, Neurobehavorial Psychology and James Loughead, Neuropsychology Intern. Call Paulette at 5-1111.
Wednesday, June 14
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome support group is held the second and last Wednesday of every month, 7 to 9 p.m., East Atrium conference room, Gibbon. Also Wednesday, June 28. Free parking or bus tokens. Call 5-1400.
Thursday, June 15
• Laryngectomee, Center City Nu-Voice Club, held the third Thursday of every month, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., 925 Chestnut Street, 6th Floor. Call Barbara Baskin or Nancy Travers at 5-2554.
Saturday, June 17
• Sarcoidosis, Harold L. Israel, MD, Sarcoidosis and other Grandulomatous diseases group is held once every month on a Saturday, 1 to 3 p.m., Boardroom, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital – Ford Road Campus, 3905 Ford Road. Call Rhea Gaines at 5-5161.
Wedneday, June 21
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Man-to-Man, a prostate cancer self-help and networking group, co-sponsored by the American Cancer Society will be held the third Wednesday of every month. Each month a guest lecturer will speak on an issue related to prostate cancer, 5:30 to 7 p.m., 145 JAH. Call 5-8370.
Thursday, June 22
• Strength for Caring, a program for those caring for someone with cancer is held the fourth Thursday of every month from noon to 4 p.m., G-312 Bodine. Call 5-8370.
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