JEFFCALENDAR

Blood Donor Center hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 7793.

DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS TO NOTE:

JANUARY 1 - New Year's Day (Official University Holiday), Happy 1997, and World AIDS Day.
JANUARY 1 - 31 is National Volunteer Blood Donor, National Eye Care, March of Dimes Birth Defects Prevention, Thyroid Disease Awareness month.
JANUARY 8 - 14 National Autism Awareness week.
JANUARY 21 - 27 National Glaucoma Awareness week.

BROWN BAG LUNCHES

Tuesday, January 14

• Lesbian and gay lunch group for staff, students and other members of the Jefferson community, noon, 4130 Gibbon. Call Naomi at 5-2578.

Friday, January 17

• AISR's JEFFLINE Internet Forum, brown bag lunch group with free soft drinks third Friday of every month, 12 to 1 p.m., Solis Cohen Auditorium, JAH. Find out topic and confirm location through Web page http://jeffline.tju.edu/ or call 3-4965.

Tuesday, January 21

• Jefferson Cocaine Treatment Program, Lisa deMello, MSW - Director, Family Violence Training Project, Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, "Substance Abuse & Family Violence," noon to 2 p.m., 2nd floor conference room, 1021 S. 21st Street.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

Thursday, January 2

• Family Medicine, no conferences.

Monday, January 6

• Radiobiology, Daniel Safer, PhD, Senior Research Investigator, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, "Actin, Beta-Thymosins, and the Cytoskeleton," noon, Simon Kramer Conference Room, G-312, Bodine

Thursday, January 9

• Family Medicine, Sarah Sa'adah, MD, Resident, Second Year "Preventive Care for Adults with HIV," 9:15 to 10:15 a.m.; Hospital Service Review, Drs. Wender, Pharr, Novielli, Arenson, Rabinovitz and Chang, , 10:25 to 11:10 a.m., Sharon Schutte, MD, TJU, Sleep Disorders Center, "Evaluation of Sleep Disorders," 11:15 to noon, 105 - 107 BLSB.

Thursday, January 16

• Family Medicine, Guy Webster, Associate Professor of Medicine and Dermatology, "Cutaneous Fungal Disease and Its Mimics," 9:15 to 10:15 a.m.; Edward Emmett, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director of Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Policy and Practice, "Occupational & Environmental Medicine: A Clinical Perspective," 10:25 to 11:10 a.m.; Elisabeth Kunkel, MD, Director, Consultation/Liasion, Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, "Psychological Aspects of Cancer Care," 11:15 to noon, 105 - 107 BLSB.

Thursday, January 23

• Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m., 2nd floor, McClellan Hall.
• Family Medicine, Michael Glick, DMD, Director, Medically Complex Patient Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, "Oral Manifestations and Systemic Disease," 9:15 to 10:15 a.m.; Thomas Balsbaugh, MD, Resident, Second Year, "Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Children, Behavior Medicine Faculty & Kenneth Panitch, MD, Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine, "Office Counselling: Part II," 11:15 to noon, 105 - 107 BLSB.

GRAND ROUNDS

Wednesday, January 8

• Pediatrics, Sandra Hassink, MD, Instructor, TJU, Pediatrician, duPont Hospital for Children, "Leptin - Satiety, Obesity and Growth," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
• Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Robert L. Brent, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Radiology and Pathology, Louis and Bess Stein Professor of Pediatrics, JMC, Department of Clinical Sciences, duPont Hospital for Children, "The Reproduction Toxicity of Preconception Exposures to Environmental Toxins and Mutagenic Agents," 4 p.m., 207 JAH.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Michael R. Buckley Jr., MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, JMC, "HIV - Update 1997,"10:30 to noon, DePalma.

Wednesday, January 15

• Pediatrics, Patricia Fechner, MD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatric Endocrinologist, Division of Endocrinology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balitimore, MD, "Insulin Pump Therapy," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Panel Presentation, The Center for Neurovirology, TJU, "Viruses and Mental Illness: Facts and Myths," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
• Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, J. David Erickson, PhD, DDS, MPH, Chief, Birth Defects and Genetic Diseases Branch, National Center for Environmental Health Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, "Finding Preventable Causes of Birth Defects: Epidemiologic Approaches," 207 JAH.

Wednesday, January 22

• Pediatrics, Mary Tierney, MD, Medical Director, Health Services for Children With Special Needs, Inc., Washington, DC, "Managed Care of the Medically Complex Child," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Steven D. Targum, MD, Director of Research, Crozer - Chester Medical Center, Professor, Allegheny University Hospitals, Hahnemann Division, "The Future of Schizophrenia in View of the New Pharmacotherapies," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
• Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Richard M. Schultz, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, "Molecular Basis for Mouse Egg Activation," 207 JAH.

Wednesday, January 29

• Pediatrics, Richard Kingsley, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, TJU, Director, Division of Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, duPont Hospital for Children, "Depression in Children and Adolescents," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Vincenzo Sanguineti, MD, associate professor, "The Civilly Committed Population in Philadelphia: A Review of Data," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.

MEETINGS

Tuesday, January 7

• JMC Executive Council, 1:30 p.m., 218 Curtis. Monday, January 13
• Executive Committee of the Medical Staff, 5 p.m., board room, Scott.

Thursday, January 16

• Professional Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., McClellan Hall.
• JMC Alumni Association, reception for first-year JMC students, 5:15 p.m., Eakins Lounge, JAH.

Thursday, January 30

• JMC Alumni Association Executive Committee, 5:30 p.m., Faculty Club, JAH.

NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION

Monday, December 2

• Nursing program, 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 1508 Pavilion.

Monday, December 9

• Nursing assistant program, 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 1508 Pavilion.

Monday, December 16

• 8:45 to 4:30 p.m., 1508 Pavilion.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

Wednesday, January 8

• Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call Hyacinth Williams at 474-0864. Also January 15, 22 and 29.

SUPPORT GROUPS

Thursday, January 2

• CARE, breast cancer is held the first and third Thursday of every month, 5:30 to 7 p.m., M-24, JAH. Also January 16. No registration necessary. Call 5-6254.

Monday, January 6

• Multiple Sclerosis for men and women is held the first Monday of every month, 6:30 to 8 p.m., 9350 Gibbon. Call Leith Kelley at 5-8118.

Tuesday, January 7

• Jefferson Advantage: Employee Assistance Program, Pamela Fawcett, MEd, Counselor, "How to Cope With the Loss of a Loved One," 12:05 to 1 p.m., 205 College. Also January 14, 21 and 28.

Wednesday, January 8

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is held the second and last Wednesday of every month, 7 to 9 p.m., East Atrium conference room, Gibbon. Also January 29. Free parking or bus tokens. Call 5-1400.

Thursday, January 9

• Caregiver led by Wills geriatric psychiatry staff, meets the second Thursday of every month. Education and support is provided. All caregivers of older adults are invited to attend, 5:30 to 7 p.m., auditorium, Wills Eye Hospital, 900 Walnut Street. Call 928-3084.

Wednesday, January 15

• Laryngectomee is held the third Wednesday of every month, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., rehabilitation medicine, suite 9420 Gibbon, speech conference room, 9410H. Call Barbara Baskin or Nancy Travers at 5-7447.

WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES

Monday, January 27

• AISR Workshop, "Basic MEDLINE," Skills and shortcuts to getting medical information, 10 a.m. to noon, 200B Scott. Call 3-6391.