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
FEBRUARY 1 - 28 is Black History, Age-Related Macular Degeneration/Low
Vision Awareness, American Heart, National Children’s Dental Health, Sinus Pain
Awareness, Wise Health Consumer month.
FEBRUARY 1 is National Women’s Heart Health day.
FEBRUARY 1 - 6 is National Patient Recognition week.
FEBRUARY 3 is National Patient Recognition day.
FEBRUARY 7 - 13 is National Burn Awareness, National Cardiac
Rehabilitation week.
FEBRUARY 8 - 12 is Pride in Food Service week.
FEBRUARY 9 - 15 is Cardiovascular Professionals week.
FEBRUARY 14 is Valentine’s Day.
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Tuesday, February 9
• 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.
• Jefferson Cocaine Treatment Program, Ashwin Patkar, MD, Assistant Medical Director,
Jefferson Narcotic Addiction Rehabilitation Program, noon to 2 p.m., 2nd floor conference
room, 1021 S. 21st Street.
Friday, February 19
• AISR’s JEFFLINE Internet Forum, brown bag lunch group with free soft drinks,
third Friday of every month, noon to 1 p.m., 407 JAH. Find monthly topic and location,
visit Web page http://jeffline.tju.edu/or call 3-2830.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Monday, February 1
• Radiobiology, Helene Z. Hill, PhD, Professor of Radiology, Section of Cancer
Biology, New Jersey Medical School, “Radiation Resistance Protein From
Melanoma,” noon, G-312, Simon Kramer Conference Room, Bodine.
Tuesday, February 2
• Physiology, Kurt A. Engleka, PhD, Assistant Professor, “Mechanisms of T7 RNA
Polymerase Expression in Eukaryotic Cells,” noon, 427 JAH.
• Women’s Health Source, Judith Peterson, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor,
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine - Certified in Acupuncture, “Dragons in Modern
Medicine: Acupuncture for Health,” noon to 1 p.m., Women’s Health Source, 1990
Gibbon.
Wednesday, February 3
• JeffHOPE, Estelle Richman, Commissioner of Health for the City of Philadelphia,
“The Role of the Health Professional Student in Shaping the Health of the
Community,” 3:15 p.m., Connelly Conference Center, 101 BLSB.
Thursday, February 4
• Family Medicine, Edna G. Kynett Memorial Foundation lecture, David S. Poll, MD,
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Part I, “Update in the Management of
Unstable Angina,” Part II, “Cardiac Problems During Pregnancy,” 10:25 to
noon, 105-107 BLSB.
Tuesday, February 9
• Physiology, Charles H. Lang, PhD, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular
Physiology, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, “Cytokine-Induced Changes in the
IGF System,” noon, 427 JAH.
Thursday, February 11
• Kimmel Cancer Institute Research, Nathaniel Landau, PhD, The Salk Institute for
Biological Sciences, “The role of CCR5 in HIV entry and AIDS Pathogenesis,”
“ noon, 101 BLSB.
Tuesday, February 16
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mark A. Zern, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division
of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, “Would You Like to
Learn More About Hepatitis B and C ?” noon to 1 p.m., Herbut Aud.
Thursday, February 18
• Kimmel Cancer Institute Research series, Kriistina Vuori, MD, PhD, The LaJolla
Cancer Research Institute, The Burham Institute, “Tyrosine Phosphorylation Events in
Integrin Signaling,” noon, 101 BLSB.
• Women’s Health Source, Renee Liberoni, MPH, Health Education Specialist,
“The Silent Epidemic: The Truth About Women and Heart Disease,” noon to 1 p.m. ,
Women’s Health Source, 1990 Gibbon.
Saturday, February 20
• College of Health Professions’ Office of Continuing Education, “The
Internet: Exploring the Internet as a Healthcare Information Resource,”
Interdisciplinary Professional Development series, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1103 Edison. Register
by February 17. Call 3-3131.
Monday, February 22
• Radiobiology, Francis Gasparro, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Dermatology
and Cutaneous Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, “p53
Mutations in Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer,” noon, G-312, Simon Kramer Conference Room,
Bodine.
Tuesday, February 23
• Physiology, Anna L. Kleinhaus, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and
Anatomy, New York Medical College, “Cellular Basis of Behavior,” noon, 427 JAH.
Thursday, February 25
• Kimmel Cancer Institute Research series, Eric Pamer, PhD, Yale University School of
Medicine, “The Fate of Autoreactive B Cells in Healthy and Autoimmune Mice,”
noon, 101 BLSB.
LECTURES
Thursday, February 4
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Vijay Rao, MD, Department of
Radiology, “Head & Neck Radiology,” 5:30 p.m., G312, Bodine.
Thursday, February 11
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Richard Valicenti, MD, Department of
Radiation Oncology, “Vulvar Cancer Treatment,” 5:30 p.m., G312, Bodine.
Thursday, February 18
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series, Stephanie King, MD, Department of
Ob/Gyn, Division of Gyn Onc, “Endometrial Cancer Managment,” 5:30 p.m., G312,
Bodine.
Thursday, February 25
• Kimmel Cancer Center Clinical Oncology series Stephen Strup, MD, Department of
Urology, “Bladder Cancer: A Surgeon’s Perspective,” 5:30 p.m., G312,
Bodine.
GRAND ROUNDS
Tuesday, February 2
• Pediatrics, Stephen C. Eppes, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Associate Director
of Infectious Diseases, duPont Hospital for Children, “New Aspects of Pediatric HIV
Infection,” 8 a.m., BLSB.
Wednesday, February 3
• Family Medicine, Christopher V. Chambers, MD, Director of Fellowship Program,
Clinical Professor, “Acute Asthma Management: What Matters?” 8 to 9 a.m., 101
BLSB.
• Pediatrics, Fred Fow, MD, Instructor, Attending, Emergency Medicine, duPont
Hospital for Children, “Firearms and Firearm Injury Prevention,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, E. Marshall Goldberg, MD, Professor of Medicine,
Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and the Creative Arts, “The Psychiatrist as Detective:
Ten Rules,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, February 4
• Medicine, Stephen Textor, MD, Professor, Mayo Medical School, Consultant, Division
of Hypertension & Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, “Incidental Renal Artery
Stenosis,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
Tuesday, February 9
• Pediatrics, Michael E. Trigg, MD, Professor, Chief, Division of Blood and Bone
Marrow Transplantation, “Stem Cell Therapy in Children: Results and Options
Available,” 8 a.m., BLSB.
Wednesday, February 10
• Pediatrics, Kenneth Ginsburg, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Adolescent
Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, “Youth Violence: A
Clinician’s Response,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Family Medicine, Gregory Kane, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Program
Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care,
“Lung Cancer: Approach, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning for the Generalist,” 8
to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Susan Silberstein, PhD, Executive Director, Center
for Advancement in Cancer Education, “Unconventional Cancer Therapies: Criteria for
Evaluation and Rationale for Implementation,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, February 11
• Medicine, Lawrence Brandt, MD, Professor, Albert Einstein School of Medicine,
Director of Gastroenterology, Moses Campus of Montefiore Medical Center, “GI Disease
in the Elderly,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
Tuesday, February 16
• Pediatrics, Ruth Zager, MD, Behavioral Health, duPont at Jefferson, “Domestic
Violence and the Child’s Life Cycle,” 8 a.m., BLSB.
Wednesday, February 17
• Pediatrics, Lynn S. Walker, PhD, Associate Professor, Acting Director, Division of
Adolescent Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee,
“Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Family Medicine, Eugene Hong, MD, Resident, Third Year, “Nutritional Aspects
in HIV Care,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Judith R. Peterson, MD, Clinical Assistant
Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, “Medical Acupuncture for Pain
Management,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, February 18
• Medicine, Gordon T. Moore, MD, MPH, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention,
HPHC/Harvard Medical School, “The Partnerships for Quality Education: Academic
Medicine and Managed Care Learning Together,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
Tuesday, February 23
• Pediatrics, staff meeting.
Wednesday, February 24
• Pediatrics, Pamela Arn, MD, Assistant Professor, Mayo Graduate School of Mediciine,
Division of Medical Genetics, Nemours Children’s Clinic, “Acute Inborn Errors of
Metabolism in the Neonate,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Family Medicine, Scott Goldstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery,
“Evaluation and Treatment of Rectal Pain,” 8 to 9 a.m.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Vincenzo Sanguineti, MD, Associate Professor,
“I - the - Self, I - the - Brain - Is Consciousness an Illusion?” 10:30 to noon,
DePalma.
Thursday, February 25
• Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Medicine, Michael Levy, MD, Assistant Professor, Temple University, Medical
Director of the Palliative Care Service, Fox Chase Cancer Center, “Pain
Management,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Monday, February 1
• College of Health Professions Career Networking Night, 6 to 7:30 p.m., JAH.
Wednesday, February 3
• TJU Choir rehearsal, 7 p.m., McClellan Hall. Also February 10, 17 and 24 .
Thursday, February 4
• Commons and Activities Office, Film and Ethics Discussion, Miss Evers+IBk - Boys,
moderators, Edward Christian, MD, and Deborah Witt, MD, discussion sponsored by JAASS, 6
to 9 p.m., Solis Cohen Aud., JAH.
Friday, February 5
• College of Health Professions Annual Winter Social, 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., JAH.
Wednesday February 10
• Commons and Activities Office, Dance, Afro-One Dance, Drama and Drum Theatre, Inc.,
A special presentation of traditional and contemporary African and African American dance.
Featuring percussion drummers, dancers and a narrator, noon to 1 p.m., Cafeteria, JAH.
Friday, February 26
• Second Annual JeffHOPE Charity Ball, 7 to midnight, Ballroom at the Ben, Benjamin
Franklin House, 9th and Chestnut Streets. Student tickets $40 each, others $70 each. Call
5-1878 or 215-629-2381.
WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
Tuesday, February 9
• Nutrition and Dietetics, Weight Management support/discussion group, join the
information, dietitian-led discussion about maintaining a healthy lifestyle for life-long
weight management. Develop food selection skills and learn others strategies for success,
$8 per meeting (meets every other Tuesday at noon), 1015 Chestnut Street, Suite 715. Call
5-2713. Also Tuesday, February 23.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Wednesday, February 3
• Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call
Hyacinth Williams at 474-0864. Also February 10, 17, 24.
Thursday, February 4
• Jefferson Prayer and Praise Worship hour, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., room 207, JAH. Also
February 11, 18, 25. Call Regina at 5-7071 (7 to 3:30 p.m.).
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 February, April, June, August, October and December, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.,
204 College. Call 215-877-9061.
Wednesday, February 3
• 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.
Thursday, February 4
• CARE, breast cancer is held the first and third Thursday of every month, 5:30 to 7
p.m., M-24, JAH. Also February 18. No registration necessary. Call 5-6254.
Wednesday, February 10
• 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 February 24. Free parking or bus
tokens. Call 5-1400.
Thursday, February 18
• Laryngectomee, Center City Nu-Voice Club, is held the third Thursday of every
month, Maryanne Peereboom, President of the European Federation of Laryngectomees,
“Laryngectomees in Holland,” 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Department of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 925 Chestnut St, 6th Floor. Call Barbara Baskin or
Nancy Travers at 5-2554. |
