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.
JULY 1 - 31 is Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness month.
AUGUST 1 - 31 is National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness month.
AUGUST 2 - 9 is National Staff Development week.
AUGUST 7 -12 is Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist week.
AUGUST 11 is National Medical Dosimetrist Day.
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Tuesday, July 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. Also on Tuesday, August
10.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Wednesday, July 14
• Urology, Irvin H. Hirsch, MD, Associate Professor, “Improving Men’s
Sexual Health,” a discussion on erectile functioning, 7 p.m., 218 Curtis.
Refreshments will be served. Supported by Pfizer Inc.
Thursday, July 22
• Multidisciplinary Trauma, 7 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB. Also Thursday, August 26.
GRAND ROUNDS
Wednesday, July 7
• Family Medicine, Paul Brucker, MD, President, “State of the University,”
8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Pediatrics, Jean Marie Baffa, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, JMC, and Clinical
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Nemours Cardiac Center, duPont Hospital for
Children, “Update on Non-Invasive Imaging in Congenital Heart Disease,” 8 a.m.,
duPont Hospital for Children.
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Walter Curran, MD, Radiation Oncology, “The Management
of Malignant Gliomas,” 8 a.m., G312 Bodine.
Thursday, July 8
• Medicine, James Fitzpatrick, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of
Cardiology, “Exercise as Treatment for Heart Disease,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, July 14
• Pediatrics, Alan Zametkin, MD, Professor, National Institute of Mental Health,
Clinical Research, “Secrets of the Hyperactive Brain: Recent Advances in
Understanding Disorders of Motor Control and Attention,”8 a.m., duPont Hospital for
Children.
• Family Medicine, Dino Solomos, MBA, CMPE, Senior Administrator, “The
Financially Successful Physician in the 21st Century,” 8 to 9 a.m., 207 JAH.
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Bruce Boman, MD, Director, Neoplastics/Medical Genetics,
“An Update on Cancer Genetics,” 8 a.m., G312 Bodine.
Thursday, July 15
• Medicine, JMC Medical Staff meeting cancelled.
Wednesday, July 21
• Pediatrics, Richard I. Silver, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology and Pediatrics,
JMC, Division of Urology, duPont Hospital for Children, “Cryptorchidism –
Current Concepts and Management,” 8 a.m., AIDI.
• Family Medicine, Richard Neill, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family
Practice and Community Medicine, “Homicide as a Public Health Problem,”8 to 9
a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Diane Deely, MD, Radiology, “Bone Radiography for the
Oncologist,” 8 a.m., G312 Bodine.
Thursday, July 22
• Medicine, Jonathan Gottlieb, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Critical Care,
Pulmonary, Allergic and Immunologic Diseases, “Death by Mechanical Ventilation,”
8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, July 28
• Pediatrics, Bill Tamborlane, MD, Professor, Yale School of Medicine, Insulin Pump
Therapy in Adolescents,”8 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Family Medicine, John L. Randall, MD, Chair and Alumni Professor, “State of
the Department,”8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Bill McGuire, MD, Gynecologic Oncology, Mercy Hospital,
“Update on Alternative Therapy for Refractory Ovarian Cancer,”8 a.m., G312
Bodine.
Thursday, July 29
• Medicine, James Burke, MD, Clinical Professor, Director, Division of Nephrology,
“Immunosupression for the New Millennium,”8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, August 4
• Pediatrics, David B. Allen, MD, Professor, University of Wisconsin Children’s
Hospital, University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, “The Systemic Effects of
Inhaled and Intranasal Glucocorticoids in Children,”8 a.m., duPont Hospital for
Children.
Thursday, August 5
• Medicine, to be announced, 8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, August 11
• Pediatrics, Barbara Shapiro, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics in
Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, “Management of Chronic
Pain In Children,”8 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
Thursday, August 12
• Medicine, Allan Erslev, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Cardeza Foundation
for Hematologic Research and Division of Hematology, “Anemia of Cancer: The role of
Erythropoietin,”8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, August 18
• Pediatrics, Magdy Attia, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, JMC, Attending,
Emergency Medicine, duPont Hospital for Children, “GABHS Pharyngitis – Making an
Educated Guess,” 8 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
Thursday, August 19
• Medicine, Michael Porayko, MD, Director, Liver Transplant Program, Jefferson
Digestive Diseases Institute, “Patient Selection and Timing of Liver
Transplantation,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, August 25
• Pediatrics, Michael Musci, DO, Medical Director, PAIDOS Health Management Services,
“Can There Be Ethics in Managed Care,”8 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
Thursday, August 26
• Medicine, Medical Staff meeting cancelled.
MEETINGS
Monday, July 19
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. Board of Trustees, 9:30 to 11 a.m., 101
BLSB.
Monday, July 26
• Scientific and Academic Affairs Committee, 9 a.m., Connelly Conference Hall.
• Full Board of Trustees, noon, 636 Scott.
WORKSHOP AND CLASSES
Monday, July 26
• Registration for the fall semester begins for the Department of General Studies and
continues through Monday, August 16.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
Thursday, July 1
Interfaith Prayer and Medication Service, noon, Chapel, 9 Gibbon. Anyone from any faith is
welcome. During brief service silent prayer is offered from requests that are written in
books placed in the Chapel, Bodine Cancer Center and several other places in the hospital.
Also July 8, 15, 22, 29 and August 5, 12, 19 and 26.
Wednesday, July 7
• Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call
Hyacinth Williams at 474-0864. Also Wednesdays, July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, 18 and 25.
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 August, October and December, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., 204 College. Call
215-877-9061.
Wednesday, July 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. Also Wednesday, August 4.
Thursday, July 8
• Breast Cancer group, held the first and third Thursday of every month, 5:30 to 7
p.m., M-24, JAH. No registration necessary. Call 5-8370. Also Thursdays, July 15, August 5
and 19.
Wednesday, July 14
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Man-to-Man, a prostate cancer self-help and networking group,
co-sponsored by the American Cancer Society will be held the second Wednesday of every
month. Each month a guest lecturer will speak on an issue related to prostate cancer, 5:30
to 7 p.m., M-24, JAH. For information, call 5-8370. Also Wednesday, August 11.
• 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. Also Wednesday, August 11.
• 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 Wednesdays, July 28, August 11 and
25. Free parking or bus tokens. Call 5-1400.
Thursday, July 15
• Laryngectomee, Center City Nu-Voice Club, 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. Also Thursday, August 19.
Thursday, July 22
• Strength for Caring, a program for those caring for someone with cancer is held the
fourth Thursday of every month from noon to 4 p.m., G-312 Bodine. For registration, call
5-8370. Also Thursday, August 26. Saturday, August 21
• Sarcoidosis, Harold L. Israel, MD, Sarcoidosis and Other Granlomatous Diseases,
1 to 3 p.m., Boardroom, TJU - Ford Road Campus, 3905 Ford Road. Call Rhea Gaines at 5-5161
for information. |
