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Stacey Meadows, Esq., Named Vice President, General Counsel for Hospital

Stacey Meadows, Esq., was named Vice President and General Counsel for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH), Philadelphia. The announcement was made by Thomas J. Lewis, President and CEO, TJUH. Meadows has been at Thomas Jefferson University since 1988, serving most recently as Associate Counsel.

“Stacey has done an outstanding job in the Office of University Counsel,” said Lewis. “I look forward to continuing to work with her in her new role as she coordinates all legal services for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.”

Before coming to Jefferson, Meadows served as Chief Assistant City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia Law Department where she acted as counsel to the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services. In this position, she handled all Health Department contracts and supervised attorneys for health, mental health, dependency and federal civil rights litigation.

Ms. Meadows maintains membership in national and local professional societies including the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations and the American Health Lawyers Association.

Ms. Meadows has published several articles and lectured extensively on health-care topics for hospitals, academic centers and professional societies.

Estelle Richman Speaks at Jefferson February 3
Estelle Richman, Commissioner of Health for the City of Philadelphia, will speak on “The Role of the Health Professional Student in Shaping the Health of the Community” February 3 at 3:15 p.m. at Connelly Conference Center, 101 Bluemle Life Sciences Building. All members of the Jefferson community are welcome to attend.

The event is sponsored by JeffHOPE, the student-run organization that provides health services and advocacy for homeless people.

JeffHOPE student leaders invited Ms. Richman to Jefferson to provide insights about the role of public health, including career possibilities, says Edward Haas, JMC ’01, JeffHOPE educational coordinator.

The Jefferson Medical College faculty adviser to JeffHOPE is James D. Plumb, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine, and Associate Vice President, Community Service and Public Health, Jefferson Health System.

‘Swing Into Spring’ With The 1999 Jefferson Ball in April; One of Jefferson’s Year-long Anniversary Celebration Events
The Women’s Board of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital will hold its 1999 Jefferson Ball “Swing Into Spring” on Saturday April 10, at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue. One of Jefferson’s Anniversary Celebration Year events, this year’s Ball, co-chaired by Miriam Schwartz and Lisa Brownstein, will feature fine food and dancing, as well as an auction. And for the first time a patron book will also be distributed. Sponsors who respond by mid-February will be listed in the invitation. Proceeds from the event benefit projects in support of patient care and comfort. For more information on the patron book or tickets, call Susan S. Miller at 5-8307.

Come to 2nd Annual JeffHOPE Charity Ball February 26
All members of the Jefferson community are invited to the second annual JeffHOPE Charity Ball, February 26, 7 p.m. to midnight, at the Ballroom at the Ben, Benjamin Franklin House, 9th and Chestnut Streets. Admission includes hors d’oeuvres, dinner choices and dancing featuring “music from all decades.” Tickets are $70 per person, or $40 for students. The event funds much of the year-round work by JeffHOPE, the student-run organization that provides health services and advocacy for homeless people. Contact Lisa Krisak, Chairperson, 215-629-2381, or the JeffHOPE office, 215-955-1878.

Celebrate Chinese New Year
Thomas Jefferson University Chinese Community Partnership for Health invites all Jeffersonians to celebrate the Chinese New Year during the week of February 15.
The following special events will take place throughout the entire week beginning Monday, February 15.

• Children’s Art Contest with a Chinese New Year theme.
• Chinese food, with features from Ho Sai Gai Restaurant in Chinatown, will available on the Atrium menu. Please check menu.

Stop by the Atrium on Tuesday, February 16, at 11:45 a.m, for a Tai Chi demonstration. And, from noon to 2 p.m., you can also have your name written in Chinese characters.

On Wednesday, February 17, at 11:45 a.m., in the Atrium, the children of Holy Redeemer Catholic School will perform Traditional Chinese Dances.

Jefferson Training Center Spring Semester Starts Soon
The Jefferson Training Center (JTC) spring semester starts the third week in February, offering programs on a variety of management and professional development issues and topics. Included in the lineup are several new programs: Cross-Cultural Patient Care, Office Excellence, Making Management Decisions and Staying Current: Information Skills All Managers Need. Programs back by popular demand are: Coping With Difficult People, The Manager as Conflict Mediator, Time Management and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. These programs are offered at no cost to staff or the department, but pre-registration is required.

To find out more about program content, dates and times, consult a copy of the Training and Development Resource Guide. The Guide has been mailed to all managers and key personnel. Copies can be obtained at the HRDES office, 2160 Gibbon, or by calling 503-8700. The Guide is also available on-line at www.tju.edu/tju/training/jtc/

CHP’s Department of Dental Hygiene Closes
The Department of Dental Hygiene in Jefferson’s College of Health Professions (CHP) officially closed on January 29. The federal grant funding, which had enabled the department to continue its research mission even after the educational programs closed in 1995, has ended.

In making the announcement, CHP Dean Lawrence Abrams, EdD, noted that Jane L. Forrest, RDH, EdD, Department Chairman and Principal Investigator on the federal grants, will continue projects initiated at Jefferson, including the National Center for Dental Hygiene Research and the DHNet Web site, from her new position as Professor and Chair of the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of Southern California.

‘SOLOS’ Strikes a Perfect Tune With Singles
For more than a decade, Christine Peterson-Schlesinger, CRNP, a geriatrics nurse practitioner in the Department of Family Medicine, has given unstintingly of her time and effort as a community volunteer for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Now, thanks to her creativity and organizational leadership, Jeffersonians can benefit from “SOLOS” – “Single Orchestra Lovers” – which Ms. Peterson-Schlesinger created and organized in conjunction with the Orchestra “to combine a social and cultural evening for single people of like interests.”

In only its second year, SOLOS attracts from 75 to 100 singles to each of its Tuesday evening “events” of cocktails, dinner and premium seating at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert for a total price of $75.

“People come from all over the Delaware Valley – from Skippack to Atlantic City – and even from as far as Baltimore,” she says.

Already SOLOS has yielded one wedding – a couple who met at the group’s first meeting in October 1997 and were married last October. “Several other people who met through SOLOS are dating, while many others have found mutual friends who enjoy like interests,” the SOLOS founder says.

Three SOLOS Tuesday evening “events” remain for 1999 - February 2, March 9 and May 4. For more information about SOLOS, call 215-893-1956.

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