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Calendar
Blood Donor Center hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Please call 5-7791 to schedule an appointment if you
are eligible and willing to give blood.
SEPTEMBER 1 - 30 is Baby Safety, Children's
Eye Health and Safety, Gynecologic Cancer Awareness, Healthy Aging,
Leukemia Awareness, National Cholesterol Education month, National Pediculosis
Prevention, National Sickle Cell Awareness month.
SEPTEMBER 1 - 7 is National Childhood Injury Prevention
week.
SEPTEMBER 4 - Labor Day (Official University
Holiday).
SEPTEMBER 10 - 16 is 5-A-Day for Better Health,
National Respiratory Care week.
SEPTEMBER 11 - 17 is National Healthcare Environmental
Services, National Healthcare Housekeeping week.
SEPTEMBER 15 - Neonatal Nurses day.
SEPTEMBER 17 - 23 is Hearing Aid Awareness, National
Rehabilitation Awareness Celebration, National Reye's Syndrome, National
Surgical Technologist week.
SEPTEMBER 18 - 22 is Prostate Cancer Awareness
week.
SEPTEMBER 29 - 30 Rosh Hashanah
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Tuesday, September 12
• 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.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Friday, September 8
• Radiobiology, Milton B. Yatvin, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Radiation
Oncology, Oregon Health Sciences University, "The Rationale for Using
Extra Corporeal Whole-Body Hyperthermia to Eradicate HIV Infection,"
8 a.m., G-312, Bodine.
Wednesday, September 13
• Women's Health Source, Cindy Hunter, Certified Image Consultant,
Image on the Go, "Polishing Your Personal and Professional Image," noon
to 1 p.m., 1990 Gibbon.
Tuesday, September 19
• Physiology, Stephen F. Vatner, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director,
Cardiovascular Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, University
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, "Sympathetic Mechanisms in
Heart Failure," noon, 427 JAH.
Wednesday, September 20
• Women's Health Source, John Abruzzo, MD, Professor of Medicine,
Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Center, "Updates in Osteoporosis,"
noon to 1 p.m., 1990 Gibbon.
Tuesday, September 26
• Women's Health Source, Stephen L. Corson, MD, Professor of Obstetrics
& Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility, noon to 1 p.m.,
1990 Gibbon.
Tuesday, September 26
• Physiology, Steven A. Farber, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology
and Immunology, "Real-Time Fluorescent Imaging of Digestive Physiology:
A Mutational Screen with Guts," noon, 427 JAH.
Thursday, September 28
• Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
FORUM
Wednesday, September 13
• Office of Health Policy and Clinical Outcomes,
Howard Nathan, Executive Director, Delaware Valley Transplant Program,
'Organ Donation and Transplantation: A Unique 'Marriage' --Public Policy
and Medical Decision Making," 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., 105 Curtis.
SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday, September 13
• Nursing, Ira Byock, MD, Director of Palliative Care Service,
Missoula, Montana, "Caring for Terminally-Ill Patients in the 21st Century,"
7:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Ben Franklin House Ballroom. Fee, which includes
lunch, is $98. Admission for employees of the Jefferson Health System
is free. Call Linda Wilson at 215-955-8215. To register, call Terrilyn
Honesty at 215-955-7210.
GRAND ROUNDS
Wednesday, September 6
• Pediatrics, Gary Carpenter, MD, Associate Professor, JMC, Division
of Pediatric Endocrinology, "Neurocutaneous Syndromes," 8 to 9 a.m.,
105-107 BLSB.
• Pediatrics, Paul Anisman, MD, Clinical Assistant
Professor, JMC, Nemours Cardiac Center, "Cardiac Clearance for Sports,"
8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Family Medicine, to be announced.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jacques Chammah,
CSW, CGP, Faculty, Ackerman Institute of Family Therapy and Metropolitan
Mental Health Institute, "The Encouragement of Personal Connections
Within a Group Experience," 10:30 to noon, DePalma Aud.
Thursday, September 7
• Medicine, Rodney Bell, MD, Professor of Neurology, Chief, Division
of Cerebrovascular Disease and Neurologic Critical Care, "Update in
Acute Stroke Therapy," 8 a.m., DePalma Aud.
Wednesday, September 13
• Pediatrics, to be announced, 8 to 9 a.m., 105-107, BLSB.
• Pediatrics, Raj Padman, MD, Clinical Associate
Professor; Aaron Chidekel, MD, Assistant Professor, and William Reenstra,
PhD, Associate Professor, JMC, Division of Pulmonology and Laboratory
of Epithelial Cell Biology, duPont Hospital for Children, "Cystic Fibrosis
Update, More Than a Decade of Discovery," 8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital
for Children.
• Family Medicine, Paul Brucker, MD, President,
TJU, "State of the University," 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Bruce M. Boman,
MD, PhD, The Robert L. Capizzi Professor of Medicine, Director, Division
of Medical Oncology and Medical Genetics, JMC, 10:30 to noon, DePalma
Aud.
Thursday, September 14
• Medicine, Kelly Anne Spratt, DO, Assistant Professor, Director,
Women's Center for Cardiovascular Health, Hospital at the University
of Pennsylvania, "HRT and Heart Disease, What is the Role?" 8 a.m.,
DePalma Aud.
• Pediatrics, Dennis R. Ownby, MD, Professor, Medical
College of Georgia, Section of Allergy/Immunology, "Newly Identified
Factors Leading to Development of Asthma and Criteria for Diagnosis
of Asthma," 8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
Wednesday, September 20
• Pediatrics, Louis Bartoshesky, MD, MPH, Associate Professor,
JMC, Christiana Hospital, Department of Genetics, and Jane Getchell,
PhD, Director, Delaware Public Health Laboratory, "Newborn Screening
--New Tests and Controversies," 8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children
and 105-107 BLSB. Videoconferenced from JMC to lecture hall.
• Family Medicine, Rita Axelrod, MD, Clinical Associate
Professor, Division of Medical Oncology, "New Developments in the Management
of Resectable Lung Cancer," 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Lawrence D. Blum,
MD, Co-Director, Combined Psychotherapy Training Program, Philadelphia
Psychoanalytic Institute and The Institute of the Philadelphia Association
for Psychoanalysis, "Psychological Mindedness," 10:30 a.m. to noon,
DePalma.
Thursday, September 21
• Medicine, Medical Staff meeting
Wednesday, September 27
• Pediatrics, Departmental Staff meeting
• Pediatrics, John Walkup, MD, Associate Professor
of Psychiatry, and Deputy Director, Division of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, "Pharmacological Treatment of
Childhood Anxiety Disorders," 8 to 9 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Family Medicine, Richard Wender, MD, Clinical Professor
and Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine, "Diabetes," 8 to 9 a.m.,
101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Hugh Myrick, MD,
Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, Director,
Substance Abuse Treatment Center, Charleston Veterans Administration
Hospital, "Novel Treatments for Addictive Disorders," 10:30 a.m. to
noon, DePalma Aud.
Thursday, September 28
• Medicine, Anthony J. DiMarino, MD, William Rorer Professor of
Medicine, Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, "Division
Director's Rounds: Update in Gastroenterology," 8 a.m., DePalma Aud.
MEETINGS
Friday, September 8
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. Board, 9:30 to 11
a.m., Connelly Conference Hall, BLSB.
Monday, September 11
• 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, September 12
• JMC Executive Council, 1:30 p.m., 218 Curtis.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, September 6
• TJU Choir rehearsal, 7 p.m., McClellan Hall. Also September 13,
20 and 27.
Sunday, September 24
• Third Annual Walter E. Brandon Sickle Cell Walk-a-Thon to benefit
the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Philadelphia/Delaware
Valley Chapter, 8 a.m., Marcus Foster Field, 16th and Hunting Park.
Join Grand Marshal Mayor John Street for the six-mile walk south to
Broad and Girard and north to Broad and Hunting Park. Volunteers needed.
$5 registration fee. Call 215-471-8686.
Thursday, September 28
• JMC, White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2004, JAH. Call 5-9823
or Patrick.Herron@mail.tju.edu
UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENT
Saturday, November 25
• Ford Road Campus, Holiday season bus tour to Lancaster, PA. See
the Sight and Sound "Miracle of Christmas" show, stopping at Kitchen
Kettle Village followed by the show at 1 p.m., and dinner at Good and
Plenty, returning home at 7 p.m. Price $83. $25 deposit due September
22, final $58 payment due October 2. Call Michele Patton at 215-578-3500
or Mary Hozey at 215-578-3450.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Wednesday, September 6
• Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m.,
302 MOB. Call Hyacinth Williams at 215-474-0864. Also Wednesdays, September
13, 20 and 27.
Thursday, September 7
• 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, September
14, 21 and 28.
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.
Tuesday, September 5
• 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, September 6
• 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.
Thursday, September 7
• 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, September 21.
Tuesday, September 11
• Patients and employees wishing to learn about in-vitro fertilization
(IVF) related assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can attend a
free evening seminar, 7 p.m, at 5217 Militia Hill Road, Plymouth Meeting,
RSVP 610-834-1140.
Tuesday, September 12
• 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, September 13
• 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, September 27. Free parking or bus tokens.
Call 5-1400.
Wednesday, September 20
• 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. A guest lecturer will speak
on an issue related to prostate cancer, 5:30 to 7 p.m., 145 JAH. Call
5-8370.
Thursday, September 21
• 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.
Thursday, September 28
• 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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