Blood Donor Center hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 7793.
DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS TO NOTE:
JULY 1 - 31 is Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness month.
JULY 12 - 18 is National Wellness Conference.
JULY 20 - 26 is Lead Poison Control week.
Tuesday, July 8
* Lesbian and gay lunch group for staff, students and other members of the Jefferson community, noon, 4130 Gibbon. Call Naomi at 5-2578.
Friday, July 18
* 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 topic and location through Web page http://jeffline.tju.edu/or call 3-4965.
Thursday, July 3
* Family Medicine, no conferences.
Tuesday, July 8
* Quality Management Department, "Integrating Information Management Across the Healthcare Organization," 1 to 2:30 p.m. Call Jo-Lyn Brace, Manager, Quality Management Department at 5-5233 with questions.
Thursday, July 10
* Family Medicine, Charles Pohl, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, "Well Child Care," 9:15 to 11:10 a.m., Herbert Adler, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, "Introduction to Interviewing,"11:15 to noon, 105 - 107 BLSB.
Thursday, July 17
* Family Medicine, Richard Wender, MD, Clinical Professor and Vice Chairman, "The New U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations," 9:15 to 10:15 a.m., James Plumb, MD, Associate Professor, "Palliative Care - Principles and Practice," 10:25 to noon, 105 - 107 BLSB.
Thursday, July 24
* Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m.,
101 BlSB.
* Family Medicine, Paul C. Brucker, MD, President, TJU, "A Perspective of Health Care Delivery Issues in the Delaware Valley," 9:15 to 10:15 a.m., John Randall, MD, Alumni Professor, Chairman, "State of the Department," 10:25 to 11:10 a.m., Hospital Service Review, Drs. Wender, Studdiford, Nevin, Rosenthal, Weinstein and Barash, 11:15 to noon, 105 - 107 BLSB.
* Family Medicine, Richard Wender, MD, Clinical Professor and Vice Chairman, "An Evidenced Based Approach to diabetes Management," 9:15 to 10:15 a.m., Sandra Sauereisen, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, "Evidence Based Medicine: Why and How?" 10:25 to 11:10 a.m., Michael Rosenthal, MD, Clinical Professor, "Approach to Depression in Primary Care - Revisited," 11:15 to noon, 105-107 BLSB.
LECTURE
Saturday, June 7
* JMC Alumni Office, The Joe Henry Coley Lecture, Gerald D. Dodd, MD, Past National President, American Cancer Society, Past National President, American College of Radiology, Emeritus Professor of Radiology, University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center, "Screening for Breast Cancer in Younger Women: A Continuing Dilemma," 2:30 p.m., Connelly Conference Hall, BLSB.
SYMPOSIUM
Friday, June 13
* Jefferson Medical College, First Annual Jefferson Ventilator Management Symposium, JAH and Solis-Cohen Auditorium.
Sunday, June 22
* Jefferson Medical College, Eastern Shore Medical Symposium, Rehoboth Beach, DE, continues through Friday, June 27.
GRAND ROUNDS
Wednesday, July 2
* Pediatrics, Karoly Horvath, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Maryland Medical Center, Maryland Hospital for Children, Baltimore, MD, 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
Wednesday, July 9
* Pediatrics, Jean S. Kan, MD, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Director, Children's Cardiac Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Syncope," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Pediatrics, Joel Klein, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, TJU, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, duPont Hospital for Children, "Emporiatrics: It's a Small (dangerous) World After All," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
Wednesday, July 23
* Pediatrics, Gregory Lehne, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, faculty member, Psychohormonal Research Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital, "Psychosocial Issues of Children with Birth Defects of the Sex Organs," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
Wednesday, July 30
* Pediatrics, Paul Robins, PhD, Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD, Susan Epps, PhD, Division of Psychology, duPont Hospital for Children, "Improving Outcome: Including the Psychological Dimension with the Medical Treatment of Recurrent Abdominal Pain, Diabetes, and Medically Fragile Neonates," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
MEETINGS
Monday, July 1
* JMC Executive Council, 1:30 p.m.,
218 Curtis.
Monday, July 14
* Executive Committee of the Medical Staff, 5 p.m., board room, Scott.
Monday, July 28
* Scientific and Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, 9 a.m., Connelly Conference Hall.
* Full Board of Trustees, noon, board room, Scott.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, July 16
* Departments of Human Resources and Physical Resources summer softball at FDR Park, (AKA "The Lakes"), Broad and Pattison, 5:30 p.m. All are welcome! Call Tom Harrison at 5-1574 or Mel Suplee at 3-8325 for additional information.
Friday, July 18
* CLEP Examinations and General Studies Challenge Examinations, College of Health Professions' Admissions Office, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 407 JAH. For information, call 3-8890.
NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION
Monday, July 7
* 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 1508 Pavilion.
Monday, July 21
* 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 1508 Pavilion.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Wednesday, July 2
* Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call Hyacinth Williams at 474-0864. Also July 9, 16, 23 and 30.
SUPPORT GROUPS
Thursday, July 1
* Lupus is held the first Tuesday of every month, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 204 College.
Thursday, July 3
* CARE, breast cancer is held the first and third Thursday of every month, 5:30 to 7 p.m., M-24, JAH. Also July 17. No registration necessary. Call 5-6254.
Monday, July 7
* 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.
Wednesday, July 9
* 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 July 30. Free parking or bus tokens. Call 5-1400.
Thursday, July 10
* 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, July 16
* Laryngectomee is held the third Wednesday of every month, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Rehabilitation Medicine, 9420 Gibbon, speech conference room, 9410H. Call Barbara Baskin or Nancy Travers at 5-7447.
WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
Thursday, July 28
* Department of General Studies, College of Health Professions, registration for Fall semester begins and continues through Friday, August 15, G-22 Curtis.
TUNE TO 'HEALTHWISE' ON WPEN 950 AM
Hear Jefferson Health System (JHS) physicians discuss the latest health topics on "HealthWise," WPEN's weekly health information radio show hosted by Martin Weisberg, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JMC. The show, sponsored by JHS, will air Sunday mornings, at 8:30 a.m, beginning July 6. The first guests will be Anthony DiMarino, MD, and Stephen Herrine, MD, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology. Thereafter, Jefferson physicians and Main Line Health physicians will be featured on alternate weeks. On July 20, Alexander Vaccaro, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, will be featured. Watch JeffNEWS for schedule of upcoming featured guests.