Blood Donor Center hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 5-7793.
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Tuesday, October 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, October 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 topic and location on jeffline.tju.edu/or call 3-4965.
Monday, October 20
* College of Health Professions, Center for Faculty Development brown bag lunch seminar, "How teaching and Learning Can Be Transformed Through Information Technology," 12:10 to 1:50 p.m. Call 3-5305.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Monday, October 6
* Radiobiology, Thanos Halazonetis, DDS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Wistar Institute, "Regulation of p53 Function by DNA Damage," G312, Simon Kramer Conference Room, Bodine.
Tuesday, October 7
* Physiology, Allan M. Lefer, PhD, Professor and Chairman, "Interaction Between Platelets and Neutrophils in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury," noon, Physiology Library, 427 JAH.
Thursday, October 8
* Family Medicine, Edna G. Kynett Memorial Foundation Lecture, Susan Z. Yanovski, MD, Director, Obesity and Eating Disorders Program, Executive Director, National Task Force on Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD, "Drug Treatment of Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Cure or Cause?" 10:25 to noon, 105 - 107 BLSB.
Tuesday, October 14
* Physiology, Kevin K, McCully, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/Geriatric Medicine, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, "Muscle Metabolism and Oxygen Delivery in Elderly Humans," noon, Physiology Library, 427 JAH.
* Quality Management Department, "Better Practice, Better Care: Integrating Hospitalwide and Medical Staff Performance Improvement Activities," 1 to 2:30 p.m., 107 BLSB. Call Jo-Lyn Brace, Manager, Quality Management Department, at 5-5233 with questions.
Tuesday, October 21
* Physiology, Maria L. Garcia, PhD, Senior Research Biochemist, Department of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, "High-Conductance CA2+-Activated K+ Channels: Structure-Function Analysis," noon, Physiology Library, 427 JAH.
Thursday, October 23
* Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Tuesday, October 28
* Physiology, Antonio Giordano, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, "Retinoblastoma Family and Cyclin Dependent Kinases in Cell Cycle and Cancer," noon, Physiology Library, 427 JAH.
LECTURES
Tuesday, October 7
* College of Health Professions, Department of Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau, International Delta Rho Chapter presents the 17th Annual Visiting Nurse Scholar Day, Barbara J. Safriet, JD, LLM, "Regulatory Issues in Advanced Practice Nursing for the 21st Century," 4 to 6 p.m., DePalma.
GRAND ROUNDS
Wednesday, October 1
* Family Medicine, Joseph Sirvin, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, "Advances in Epilepsy Management," 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
* Pediatrics, Balu Athreya, MD, professor, JMC, Pediatric Rheumatologist, Division of Rheumalology, duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, "Evolution of Bedside Medicine - Where Are We Headed in the Age of Technology?" 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Robert T. M. Phillips, MD, PhD, Deputy Medical Director, American Psychiatric Association, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Law, University of Maryland School of Medicine, "The Effects of Media Violence on Children & Adolescents," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, October 2
* Medicine, Geno J. Merli, MD, Clinical Professor, Director of the Division of Internal Medicine, James D. Plumb, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Robert Wright, MD, Chairman, Department of Medicine, Mercy Hospital, and Leland White, Senior Vice President of Business and Network Development, JHS, 1997 National Primary Care Day, "Redefining Primary Care Education: Challenges to Health Care Systems," 8 a.m., DePalma Auditorium.
Wednesday, October 8
* Family Medicine, Caroline Richardson, MD, Family Medicine Resident, Third Year, "The Exercise Prescription," 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
* Pediatrics, Steven Selbst, MD, Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, former Division Chief, Emergency Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, "Challenges in Pediatric Emergency Medicine," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Thomas R. Hobbs, MD, PhD, Medical Director, Physicians Health Program, Assistant Clinical Professor, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, "Addiction and Physicians: The Physicians Health Program of the Pennsylvania Medical Society," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, October 9
* Medicine, Steven DaTorre, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, "Trends in the Prevention and Treatment of Sudden Cardiac Death," 8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, October 15
* Family Medicine, Edith Mitchell, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Program Leader Gastrointestinal Oncology, Division of Neoplastic Diseases, "Decreasing Mortality in Colorectal Cancer: Current Research Issues," 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
* Pediatrics, Glenn McGee PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania, "Genetics and Ethics," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Henry A. Nasrallah, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, The Ohio State University Medical Center, "Neurobiology and Psychopharmacology of Schizophrenia: An Update," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, October 16
* Medicine, Gregory C. Kane, MD, Assistant Professor, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, "Pneumococcal Resistance: Update and Recommendations," 8 a.m., DePalma
Wednesday, October 22
* Family Medicine, Margorie Bowman, MD, MPA, Professor and Chair, Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, "A Call to Leadership in Family Medicine," 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BlSB.
* Pediatrics, Richard Kreipe, MD, Associate Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center, Chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, "Eating Disorders in Primary Care Practice," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Michael Sperling, MD, Professor, Department of Neurology, "Epilepsy Surgery," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, October 23
* Medicine, Meeting of the Medical Staff, 8 a.m., DePalma Auditorium.
Wednesday, October 29
* Pediatrics, Flaura Koplin Winston, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Director, Trauma Link, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, "Air Bag Safety," 8 a.m., thirdfloor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Steven Rosenzweig, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, "The Hero's Journey: The Inner Transformation of the Physician, 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
MEETINGS
Tuesday, October 7
* JMC Executive Council, 1:30 p.m., 218 Curtis.
Thursday, October 23
* JMC General and Professorial Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., Herbut Auditorium.
* JMC Alumni Executive Committee Meeting, 5:30 p.m., JAH.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, October 1
* TJU Choir rehearsal, 7 p.m., McClellan Hall. Also 10/8, 15, 22, and 29.
Friday, October 3
* Golf Outing, It's Par Fore the Course...Golf Outing at Ron Jaworski's Eagle Nest, Sewell, NJ, sponsored by TJUs Departments of Human Resources and Physical Resources. Call Tom at 5-1574 or Susan at 503-6244 for further information.
Tuesday, October 21
* Activities, Movie Night, "Contact," 5:05 and 7:45 p.m., Solis Cohen Auditorium, JAH.
WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
Tuesday, October 7
* Information Systems, "PC: Getting Stared with Windows," 9:30 to 12:30 p.m., also 10/10 and 10/27., 210 Edison.
Wednesday, October 8
* Information Systems, "Database Concepts" (MAC & PC), Intro, 9:30 to 11 a.m., 210 Edison.
Monday, October 13
* Information Systems, "Moving from MAC to Windows '95," 12:30 to 1:15 p.m., 210 Edison.
Tuesday, October 14
* Information Systems, "Intro to Windows '95," 9:30
to 12:30 p.m., also 10/29, "Intro, Word for Windows
(PC)," 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., also 10/29; "Excel for
Windows '95," Intro, 10/16, "Excel for Windows
'95," 10/17, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., "Intro to Access for
Windows," 10/24, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., "Intro to Foxpro
for Windows," 10/24, 9:30 to 12:30 p.m., "Excel for
Windows, (PC), Intro," 10/28, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., "Excel
for Windows, (PC), Advanced," 10/31, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.,
"Word for Windows - Advanced," 10/31, 1:30 to 4:30
p.m.,
210 Edison.
Thursday, October 16
* Information Systems, "Network Series: Intro," 2 to 3:30 p.m.; "Harvard Graphics for Windows (PC) - Intro," 9:30 to 12:30 p.m.; "Network Series: Usenet," 10/29, 12:30 to 1:15 p.m., 210 Edison.
Monday, October 20
* Information Systems, "Web Basics: Understanding Image Formats," 12:30 1:15 p.m., 210 Edison.
Thursday, October 23
* Information Systems, "Pagemaker - Intro," 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., 210 Edison.
Thursday, October 30
* Information Systems, "Introduction to Powerpoint," 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., 210 Edison.
NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION
Monday, October 6
* 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 1508 Pavilion.
Monday, October 20
* 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 1508 Pavilion.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Wednesday, October 1
* Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call Hyacinth Williams at 474-0864. Also 10/8, 15, 22 and 29.
SUPPORT GROUPS
* Caregiver support/education, one-time phone consultation with a Wills Geriatric Psychiatry Program staff member. All caregivers of older adults may call 215-928-3084 to set up your consultation appointment.
* 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. For information about schedule and topics, contact Sue Livingston, Director, Community Education, Outreach and Family Services, EFSEPA, at 1-800-887-7165.
Thursday, October 2
* CARE, breast cancer is held the first and third Thursday of every month, 5:30 to 7 p.m., M-24, JAH. Also October 16. No registration necessary. Call 5-6254.
Monday, October 6
* Multiple Sclerosis for men and women is held the first Monday of every month, 6:30 to 8 p.m., 9330 Gibbon. Call Leith Kelley at 5-8118.
Tuesday, October 7
* Lupus is held the first Tuesday of every month, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 204 College.
Wednesday, October 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 October 29. Free parking or bus tokens. Call 5-1400.
Wednesday, October 15
* Laryngectomee is held the third Wednesday of every month, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Rehabilitation Medicine, 3rd Main. Call Barbara Baskin or Nancy Travers at 5-2554.