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.
DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS TO NOTE
MAY 1 - 31 is Allergy and Asthma Awareness, National Arthritis, National Digestive Diseases Awareness, Hepatitis Awareness, National High Blood Pressure, National Mental Health, National Neurofibromatosis Awareness, Older Americans, Oncology Nursing, National Sight-Saving, National Stroke Awareness, Stroke Awareness, National Trauma Awareness month.
MAY 1 is Oncology Nursing day.
* To include items in JeffNEWS calendar, direct your correspondence to: Ruth Stephens, Publications Department, 1015 Chestnut Street, Suite 810, or FAX to 215-923-1835
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Thursday, May 7
* Carebridge Corporation, provides confidential telephone consultation and resources on issues concerning child care, elder care, parenting, adoption, and personal money management, "Single Parenting," 11:30 to 12:30 p.m., and 1 to 2 p.m., 145 JAH. To register, call Carebridge at 1-800-437-0911 by the Monday before the program.
Tuesday, May 12
* Jefferson Cocaine Treatment Program, Robert Sterling, PhD, Program Coordinator of the Jefferson Intensive Substance Abuse Treatment Program, "Does Substance Abuse Treatment Have Positive Outcome," noon to 2 p.m., 2nd floor conference room, 1021 S. 21st Street.
* Lesbian and gay lunch group for staff, students and other members of the Jefferson community, noon, 1015 Chestnut, room 202. Call Naomi at 5-2578.
Friday, May 15
* 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.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Friday, May 1
* Tumor Board, Christian Streffer, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Inst Fuer Medizinische Strahlenbiologie Universitats Klimikum, Essen, Germany, "Radiation Effects on the Embryo: Genetic Predisposition and Genomic Instability," 8 a.m., G312 Bodine.
Tuesday, May 5
* Physiology, Elliot M. Levine, PhD, Professor, The Wistar Institute, "Cultivating 3-D Tissue Constructs From Various Cell Types," noon, 427 JAH.
Thursday, May 7
* Health Awareness, Leo C. Katz, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, "Hemorrhoids: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly," noon to 1 p.m., Herbut Auditorium.
Friday, May 8
* Neurology, 1st National Neurology Symposium, Patricio F. Reyes, MD, Professor, Director, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Center and Brain Bank, "Common Neurological Disorders in Clinical Practice," "Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders," in the morning and "Headache and Stroke in the afternoon," 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, May 9, "Epilepsy," 8 a.m. to noon, Connelly Auditorium, BLSB. Call the Office of Continuing Medical Education at 215-955-6992.
Tuesday, May 12
* Physiology, John T. Flynn, PhD, Professor, "The Sphingomyelin Pathway in LPS Signaling," noon, 427 JAH.
Tuesday, May 19
* Physiology, Emad S. Alnemri, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, "Identification and Characterization of Apoptotic Proteins," noon, 427 JAH.
Wednesday, May 20
* Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Timothy Block, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, "Novel Therapeutics of Hepatitis B Virus," 5 p.m., 480 Main.
Thursday, May 21
* Wills Geriatric Psychiatry, Mary Spencer, Assistant Vice President, Reverse Mortgage Manager, Phoenix Mortgage, "How You Can Use Your home as a Retirement Nest Egg," 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Wills Eye Hospital Auditorium.
* Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Tuesday, May 26
* Physiology, Paul E. Desrochers, PhD, Assistant Professor, "Neutrophil Migration Across a Matrix Barrier: Do Adhesion Molecules Regulate Proteinases?" noon, 427 JAH.
LECTURES
Friday, May 1
* Family Medicine, Sixth Annual Paul C. Brucker, MD, Lecture, Howard R. Veit, "The Perspective of Employers as Purchasers of Healthcare, and Its Impact on Providers and the Healthcare System," 9 a.m., Connelly Conference Room.
Thursday, May 7
* Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Benjamn W. Corn, MD, Department of Radiation Oncology, "Hormones and Prostate Cancer," 5/14, Rita Axelrod, MD, Division of Medical Oncology, "Chemotherapy for Head & Neck Cancer," 5/21, Will Kocher, Department of Pathology, "Lymphoma Pathology," 5/28, Leonard Gomella, MD, Department of Urology, "Surgical Approach to Prostate Cancer," all 5:30 p.m., Simon Kramer Conference Room, Bodine.
Tuesday, May 26
* The 7th Annual Raymond C. Grandon Lecture, Woodrow A. Myers, Jr., MD, MBA, Director of Health Care Management, Ford Motor Company, "Academic Medical Centers and Purchasers of Care: The Future," 8 to 10 a.m., DePalma .
* The 10th Annual Warren Lang Lectureship, John J. Mikuta, MD, Franklin Payne Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, "Imperilled State of Surgery in Obstetrics and Gynecology," 5 to 6 p.m., reception follows, DePalma Call 5-2939.
GRAND ROUNDS
Tuesday, May 5
* Pediatrics, no grand rounds.
Wednesday, May 6
* Pediatrics, Hugh D. O'Donnell, MD, Attending Pediatric Surgeon, duPont Hospital for Children, "Skull Shape: What Pediatricians Need to Know," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Family Medicine, Alfred O. Berg, MD, MPH, Professor and Associate Chair, University of Washington, "The US Preventive Services Task Force: Cutting Edge or Behind the Times," 8 to 9 a.m., 207 JAH.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Gregory J. Tramuta, MD, Instructor, "Psychological Dimensions of Headache," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, May 7
* Department of Medicine, Jonathan Gottlieb, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, "Surviving Critical Care: Åssessing the Outcomes of Severely Ill Patients in the Intensive Care Unit," 8 a.m., DePalma.
Tuesday, May 12
* Pediatrics, Ken Rosenbaum, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, "Molecular Dysmorphology in the Year 2000," 8 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Wednesday, May 13
* Pediatrics, Aaron Chidekel, MD, Attending, Pulmonology, duPont Hospital for Children, "Effect of Environmental Tobacco Smoke on the Health of Children," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Family Medicine, Christine Chang, MD, Resident, Third Year, "Pregnancy Options Counseling" 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Bressel A. Van de Rolk, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Professor of Education, Harvard University, Albert M. Biele, MD Memorial Lecture, "Social and Neurobiological Dimensions of Compulsions to Forget and Repeat Psychological Trauma," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, May 14
* Department of Medicine, Woodrow Myers, MD, MBA, Director, of Health Care Management, Ford Motor Company, "Academic Medical Centers and Purchasers of Care: The Future," 8 a.m., DePalma.
Tuesday, May 19
* Pediatrics, Ellen Feingold, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, A I duPont, "Epidemiologic Comparisons of Israeli and US Adolescents,"8 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Wednesday, May 20
* Pediatrics, Joel D. Klein, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, "Antimicrobial Resistance: Revenge of the Pediatric Pathogens," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Family Medicine, Abby Letcher, MD, Third Year, "Women and AIDS: A Prospective From Two Continents," 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Barbara S. Shapiro, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, "Chronic Pain and Psychic Anguish: Patients Who Do Not Fit Our Molds," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Tuesday, May 26
* Pediatrics, staff meeting
Wednesday, May 27
* Pediatrics, Michelle Miller, MD, Fellow, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, duPont Hospital for Children, "Adolescent Driver: Injury and Injury Prevention," 8 a.m., third floor lecture hall, AIDI.
* Family Medicine, Mitchell Cohen, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Director, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, "Opioid Use for Nonmalignant Pain," 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
* Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Marvin Herz, MD, Professor, University of Rochester, "A New Method of Teaching Coping Skills Through Video Tapes to Prevent Relapse in Schizophrenia," 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, May 28
* Medicine, Clinicopathologic Conference presented by the student members of the Hobart Amory Hare Society, "An 18 Year Old Male With Anemia and Heme Positive Stools," 8 a.m., DePalma.
MEETINGS
Monday, May 4
* Scientific and Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, 9 a.m., Connelly Conference Hall.
* Full Board of Trustees, noon, board room, Scott.
Monday, May 18
* College of Health Professions' Executive Council, 12:15 p.m., 1103 Edison.
Thursday, May 21
* Professional and General Faculty, 3:30 p.m., McClellan Hall.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday, May 1
* The American Heart Association and area Hospitals in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware will offer free stroke risk assessments available to all. Assessments include blood pressure readings and trained medical personnel who will listen to each person's neck arteries and evaluate the individual's risk for stroke based on family medical history, general health, etc. Continues through May. Call 1-888-988-2179.
Saturday, May 2
* Special Olympics - May Games, 9 a.m., Northeast High School, rain date, May 9. For information, call Joe Mahoney at 922-8155 or e-mail Mahoney Z@Jeflin.tju.edu.
Wednesday, May 5
* Women's Board jewelry sale, Gibbon Building, 8 to 3:30 p.m., 11th Street Atrium.
Monday, May 14
* College of Health Professions' Class Night, Department Pinning Ceremonies, 7 to 9 p.m., JAH, reception, 9 p.m., Scott Plaza.
NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION
Monday, May 4
* 9 a.m. to noon, 145 JAH.
Monday, May 11
* 9 a.m. to noon, 1508 Pavilion, also May 18.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Wednesday, May 6
* Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call Hyacinth Williams at 474-0864. Also May 13, 20, 27.
Thursday, May 7
* Jefferson Prayer and Praise Worship hour, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., room 207. Call Regina at 5-7071 (7 to 3:30 p.m.).