Calendar
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
APRIL 1 - 30 is Alcohol Awareness, Child Abuse Prevention, National
Occupational Therapy, National Sexually Transmitted Diseases Awareness, Women’s Eye
Health and Safety month.
APRIL 4 - 10 is Public Health week.
APRIL 5 - 11 is National Healthcare Access Personnel week.
APRIL 7 is World Health Day.
APRIL 8 is Cancer Fatigue Awareness Day.
APRIL 11 - 16 is National Medical Laboratory week.
APRIL 18 - 24 is National Infant Immunization week.
APRIL 18 - 24 is National Library, National Organ/Tissue Donor Awareness,
National Volunteer, Professional Secretaries’ week.
APRIL 21 is Professional Secretaries’ day.
APRIL 26 - 30 is National Electroneurodiagnostic week.
APRIL 28 is Oncology Nursing day.
APRIL 28 - MAY 31 is Oncology Nursing month.
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Tuesday, April 13
• 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.
• Jefferson Cocaine Treatment Program, Peter DeMaria, MD, Medical Director, Jefferson
Narcotic Addiction Rehabilitation Program, noon to 2 p.m., 2nd floor conference room, 1021
S. 21st St.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Monday, April 5
• Radiobiology, Carlo Croce, MD, Director, Kimmel Cancer Center, “Genetics of
Human Cancer,” noon, G-312, Bodine.
Wednesday, April 7
• Women’s Health Source, Midlife Transitions in a Woman’s Life, Laura
Offutt, MD, Internal Medicine, “Heart Disease: Keeping Your Heart and Bones
Strong,” noon to 1 p.m., Women’s Health Source, 1990 Gibbon.
Saturday, April 10
• Women’s Health Source, “Health Fair,” 10 to 2 p.m., 1990 Gibbon.
Call 1-800-JEFF NOW®. Please register early.
Wednesday, April 21
• Women’s Health Source, “Menopause: Sex in the Second Half of Life,”
noon to 1 p.m., Women’s Health Source, 1990 Gibbon.
Thursday, April 22
• Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Kimmel Cancer Institute Research, Timothy McGraw, MD, Cornell University Medical
Center, “Regulation Endocytic Recycling in Fibroblast Cells, noon, 101 BLSB.
Friday, April 23
• College of Health Professions’ Interdisciplinary Professional Development
series, “A Practitioner’s Guide to Herbal Medicine: Integrating Traditional
Herbs into Current Medical Practice,” 101 BLSB. Register by April 20. Continues
through April 25.
Monday, April 26
• Radiobiology, Charles M. Brenner, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, Kimmel Cancer Center, “Fhit: Detection and Dissection of
a Novel Signal Transduction Pathway Inactivated in Epithelial Cancers,” noon, G-312,
Bodine.
Tuesday, April 27
• Physiology, Manal A. Morsy, MD, PhD, Associate Director, Department of Human
Genetics, Merck Research Laboratories,” noon, 427 JAH.
• Pennsylvania Reproductive Associates at Jefferson, “IVF Patient
Information,” patients and employees wishing to learn about in vitro fertilization
(IVF) and related assisted reproductive technologies (ART), 7 to 9 p.m., Solis-Cohen Aud.,
JAH.
Upcoming
Tuesday, May 4
• Physiology, Emad S. Alnemri, PhD, Associate Professor, Kimmel Cancer Center,
“Identification and Characterization of Apoptotic Proteins,” noon, 427 JAH.
Thursday, May 6
• Health Awareness and the Women’s Health Source are pleased to offer a special
Mother’s Day gift for Jefferson employees. Hear Gwen Stern, mother of three and
Attorney/Law Professor, and Claudia Cassidy, MS present “Motivate Me!” an
inspirational program on exercise and healthy lifestyle, noon to 1 p.m. DePalma. Light
refreshments will be provided. To register, call Health Awareness at 5-2492.
SYMPOSIUM
Tuesday, April 20
• Strength for Living: Managing Cancer-Related Fatigue – This educational
program for patients and their caregivers will provide strategies to manage and treat
cancer-related fatigue. Topics: “The Trouble With Carl,” one act play about
fatigue, 10 to 10:45 a.m., “Strength for Caring: Dealing With Fatigue and
Cancer,” 10:45 to 11:30 a.m., “Pain in Cancer: What Causes It and What You Can
Do About It,” lunch provided, 11:30 to 12:15 p.m., “Nutrition,” lunch
provided, 12:15 to 1 p.m., “Complementary Therapies: Massage, Vitamins, Acupuncture,
and Stress Management,” 1 to 1:45 p.m., “How To Talk To Your Children About
Cancer,” 1:45 to 2:45 p.m., “Humor, Health, and Healing,” 2:45 to 3:30 p.m.
Space is limited for this free program so register early. Call Janet Paul, RN, MSN, as
955-7974. You may sign up for the entire day or for individual sessions.
LECTURES
Thursday, April 1
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Louisa Thoron, Neuro-oncology,
“Chemotherapy for Brain Tumors,” 5:30 p.m., G312, Bodine.
Thursday, April 8
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Rita Axelrod, MD, Medical Oncology,
“Chemotherapy for Early Stage Breast Cancer,” 5:30 p.m., G312, Bodine.
Friday, April 9
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Patricia Eifel, MD, Radiation
Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, “Cervical Cancer,”: 8 to noon, Simon Kramer
Conference room.
Thursday, April 15
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Hanne Kooy, PhD, Radiation Oncology,
Mass. General Hospital, “Prostate Brachytherapy: The Use of Real Time MRI,” 5:30
p.m., G312, Bodine.
Friday, April 16
• Department of Family Medicine, 24th Annual Preceptorship Workshop and 7th Annual
Paul C. Brucker, MD, Lecture in Healthcare, Jack M. Colwill, MD, Professor of Family
Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia;
and Project Director, Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Initiative, “The
Supply of Generalists in the New Millennium,” 9 a.m., 101 BLSB, 8:15 a.m.,
registration and breakfast.
Thursday, April 22
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, John Fetting, III, MD, Medical
Oncology, John Hopkins University, “Breast Cancer,” 5:30 p.m., G312, Bodine.
Tuesday, April 27
• Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, co-sponsors with the Franklin
Institute a public lecture by Barry J. Marshall, MD, affiliated with University of
Virginia Medical Center and Burnet Fellow, NHMRC H. pylori Laboratory, University of
Western Australia, Nedlands. Dr. Marshall will be awarded the 1999 Benjamin Franklin Medal
in Life Science in Awards Ceremony, Thursday, April 29, at the Franklin Institute.
Thursday, April 29
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Jorge Freire, MD, Department of
Radiation Oncology, “Ocular Tumors/Macular Degeneration,” 5:30 p.m., G312,
Bodine.
GRAND ROUNDS
Thursday, April 1
• Medicine, Roger Pomerantz, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and
Molecular Pharmacology, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Director Center for Human
Virology, “The Eradication of HIV-1: An Oncologic Paradigm,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
Tuesday, April 6
• Pediatrics, Patrice Trauffer, MD, Assistant Professor, Clinical Director, MOM
Center, Physician Director Labor and Delivery, Co-Director Critical Care Obstetrics,
“Ultrasound Anomalies,” 8 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Radiology, Jay P. Heiken, MD, Mallincrodt Institute of Radiology, “CT
Evaluation of Non-Traumatic Emergencies of the GI Tract,” 5 p.m., 780L Main.
Wednesday, April 7
• Family Medicine, Diane Lucente, Esq., Associate Counsel, Marge Slattery, Hospital
Risk Management, “A Case Study: Legal and Risk Management Perspectives,” 8 to 9
a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Pediatrics, Judah Folkman, MD, Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Professor of Cell
Biology, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
“Angiogenic Disease in Children,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Gerald Weeks, PhD, Director of Training, Penn
Council for Relationships, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, “Do’s and
Don’ts of Working with a Couple,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, April 8
• Medicine, Hobart Amory Hare CPC, 8 a.m., DePalma.
Tuesday, April 13
• Pediatrics, Kevin Kelly, MD, St. Christopher’s Hospital,
“Gastroesophageal Reflux,” 8 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Wednesday, April 14
• Pediatrics, Jean Cortner, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania,
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, “Hypercholesterolemia in Children,
Diagnosis and Management,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Family Medicine, Cheryl Bettigole, MD, Resident, Third Year, “Update on
Neonatal Jaundice,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Michael D’Antonio, PhD, Director, Paoli,
Concordville & Narberth Offices, Penn Council for Relationships, “EMDR - Eye
Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, April 15
• Medicine, Irvin Hirsh, MD, Associate Professor, Male Fertility Section, Department
of Urology, “Current Advances in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction,” 8 a.m.,
DePalma.
Tuesday, April 20
• Pediatrics, Judith Bernbaum, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
“Office Management of Special Babies,” 8 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Radiology, Naomi P. Alazraki, MD., Emory University, “Sentinel Node
Lymnphoscientigraphy and Intraoperative Gamma Probe Guided Surgery to Stage Early Breast
Cancer,” 5 p.m., 780L Main
Wednesday, April 21
• Pediatrics, John N. Udall Jr., MD, PhD, Professor, and Chief, Division of
Gastroenterology and Nutrition, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, “Cow’s Milk:
Boon or Boondoggle for the Infant and Child,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Family Medicine, Peter Gabos, MD, Chief, Pediatric Orthopaedics, “Physiologic
or Pathologic? Decision Making in Pediatric Orthopaedics,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Stephen R. Treat, DMin, Director and CEO, Penn
Council for Relationships and Instructor, “Insights and Techniques Working With
Chronically Dysfunctional Couples,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, April 22
• Medicine, Medical Staff meeting, 8 a.m., DePalma.
Tuesday, April 27
• Pediatrics, Staff Meeting
Wednesday, April 28
• Pediatrics, Bruce M. Boman, MD, PhD, Director, Division of Medical Oncology and
Medical Genetics, “Hereditary Cancer Syndromes,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Sumer Verma, MD, Clinical Professor, Boston
University Medical School, “Treatment Resistant Depression in Elderly
Populations,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
• Family Medicine, no conference.
Thursday, April 29
• Medicine, Alan Nies, MD, Vice President, Clinical Sciences, Merck Research Labs,
“A Century of Cyclooxygenase: From Aspirin to
Cox-2,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
MEETINGS
Saturday, April 17
• Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care, Sarcoidosis, 1 to 3 p.m.,
Boardroom, TJU - Ford Road Campus, 3905 Ford Road.
Thursday, April 22
• JMC Alumni Association Annual Business, 6 p.m., Eakins Lounge, JAH.
Monday, April 26
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. Board of Trustees, 9:30 a.m. to 11
a.m., 101 BLSB. (May meeting)
• College of Health Professions’ General Faculty, 12:15 p.m., 1103 Edison.
WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
Wednesday, April 7
• Continuing Medical Education, “Chemotherapy Infusion Course,” 8 to 4:30
p.m., $150. Continues through April 8. For information, call Linda Wilson at 5-8215. To
register, call TerriLynn Honestry at 215-955-7210.
Monday, April 12
• Registration for Summer Sessions begins for the Department of General Studies and
continues through Thursday, April 29.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Wednesday, April 7
• Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call
Hyacinth Williams at 474-0864. Also April 14, 21, 28.
SUPPORT GROUPS
• Caregiver support/education, one-time phone consultation with a Wills Geriatric
Psychiatry Program staff member. To set up your consultation appointment caregivers of
older adults may call 215-928-3084.
• 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. Contact Sue Livingston, Director, Community Education,
Outreach and Family Services, EFSEPA, at 1-800-887-7165.
• Lupus Foundation of Philadelphia, Center City support group for 1999 is held on
first Tuesdays in April, June, August, October and December, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 204
College. Call 215-877-9061.
Thursday, April 1
• Breast Cancer support group is held the first and third Thursday of every month,
5:30 to 7 p.m., M-24, JAH. Also April 15. No registration necessary. Call 5-8370.
Wednesday, April 7
• 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.
Wednesday, April 14
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Man to Man, a prostate cancer self-help and networking group,
co-sponsored by the American Cancer Society, 5:30 to 7 p.m., M24, JAH.
• The Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Blaine Cloud, PhD, Neuropsychologist,
and Laurie M. Ryan, PhD, Neuropsychologist, are co-facilitators, the support group is held
the second Wednesday of every month, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., 4130 Gibbon. Call Michele at
5-1111.
• 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 April 28. Free parking or bus
tokens. Call 5-1400.
Thursday, April 15
• Laryngectomee, Center City Nu-Voice Club, is 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. |
