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.
NOVEMBER 1 - 30 is American Diabetes, Diabetic Eye
Disease Awareness, Epilepsy Awareness, National Impotence Education, National Alzheimer's
Disease, National Home Care month.
NOVEMBER 1 - 7 is National Diabetes Education week.
NOVEMBER 7 - 13 is National Health Information Management, National
Osteopathic Medicine week, National Radiologic Technology week.
NOVEMBER 14 - 20 is Bladder Health, Operating Room Nurse week.
NOVEMBER 18 is Great American Smokeout day.
NOVEMBER 25 is Thanksgiving Day (Official University Holiday).
NOVEMBER 22 - 28 is National Family week.
BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Tuesday, November 9
• 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, Edward Gottheil, MD, Professor, TJU,
“Counselor Burnout: Causes, Prevention and Management,” noon to 2 p.m., 2nd
floor conference room, 1021 S. 21st Street.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Thursday, November 4
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Marilyn D. Resh, PhD, Department of Cell Biology and
Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, “The Role of Fatty Acylation in
Signaling by Src Family Kinases and Virus Assembly by HIV GAG,” noon, Connelly
Conference Hall, BLSB.
Tuesday, November 16
• Physiology, Wenchao Song, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Exp. Therapeutics,
University of Pennsylvania, “Role of Complement Regulatory Proteins in Cell
Physiology,” noon, 427 JAH.
Thursday, November 18
• Kimmel Cancer Center, Sue Goo Rhee, PhD, Chief, Laboratory for Cell Signaling, A
joint lecture with Endocrinology, The Fuller Sherman lecture, Division of Endocrinology, a
title to be announced,” noon, Connelly Conference Hall, BLSB.
Tuesday, November 30
• Physiology, Richard Horn, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology,
“Conformational Trapping of the Moving Parts of an Ion Channel,” noon, 427 JAH.
FORUM
Wednesday, November 10
• Office of Health Policy, Christopher E. Lyon, PsyD, Director, National Center for
Independent Medial Review, “An Overview of ECRI's National Center for Independent
Medical Review,” 8:30 a.m., Admissions Office Conference Room 105, Curtis Building.
LECTURE
Wednesday, November 10
• Radiation Therapy, 14th Annual Simon Kramer lecture, C. Norman Coleman, MD,
Director of The Radiation Oncology Sciences Program, Deputy Director of the Division of
Clinical Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health,
“Improving Results With Radiation Therapy: Or, What to Do While Waiting for the Magic
Bullet,” 5:30 p.m., Solis-Cohen Aud.
GRAND ROUNDS
Tuesday, November 2
• Radiology, William Palmer, MD, Harvard Medical School, “MR of Vertebral
Collapse: Benign vs. Malignant,” 5 p.m., 780L Main.
Wednesday, November 3
• Pediatrics, Robert O.Y. Warren, MD, Memorial seminar – Sharon Nachman, MD,
Associate Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, “New
Vaccines You Will Soon Be Using in Your Office,” 8 a.m., duPont Hospital for
Children.
• Family Medicine, David Paskin, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, “The
Acute Abdomen: Past Present and Future,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, David V. Sheehan, MD, Professor, University of South
Florida College of Medicine, “Social Anxiety Disorder,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, November 4
• Medicine, To be announced, 8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, November 10
• Family Medicine, Lisa Zeelander, MD, Third-Year Family Medicine Resident,
“Migraine: Advancement Treatment and Prophylaxis,” 8 to 9 a.m., 207 JAH.
• Pediatrics, Laura Inselman, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonology,
duPont Hospital for Children, “Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disorders,”
8 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Dennis S. Charney, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and
Deputy Chair for Academic and Scientific Affairs, Yale University School of Medicine,
“Neurobiology of Depression and Its Relevance for the Developments of New
Treatments,” 10:30 to noon, DePalma.
Thursday, November 11
• Medicine, Anthony Infantollino, MD, Associate Professor, Director, Endoscopic
Ultrasound and Photodynamic Therapy, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,
“Innovations in the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
• Radiology, Theodore Miller, MD, North Shore University Hospital, “Imaging of
Musculoskeletal Infections,” 5 p.m., 780L Main.
Wednesday, November 17
• Pediatrics, Richard I. Silver, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology and Pediatrics,
“Cryptorchidism – Current Concepts and Management,” 8 a.m., duPont Hospital
for Children.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Joseph M. Palumbo, MD, Director, Central Nervous
System Clinical Development, Sanofi – Synthelabo Research,
“Hypochondriasis,” 10:30 a.m. to noon, DePalma.
• Family Medicine, Irvin Hirsch, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Urology,
“Treatment of Male Androgen Deficiency,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
Thursday, November 18
• Medicine, Richard P. Wenzel, MD, MSc, William Blackard Professor of Medicine,
Chairman, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth
University, “Measuring A High Quality Department of Medicine,” 8 a.m., DePalma.
Wednesday, November 24
• Pediatrics, Margaret Keller, MD, Research Assistant Professor, JMC, Research
Department, duPont Hospital for Children, and Anne Reilly, MD, Clinical Assistant
Professor, JMC, Division of Hematology and Oncology, duPont Hospital of Children,
“Examination of Genetic Variation and Its Influence on Disease Severity – A
Study of Sickle Cell Disease,” 8 a.m., duPont Hospital for Children.
• Family Medicine, David Nash, MD, MBA, Associate Dean and Director, Office of Health
Policy and Clinical Outcomes, “Performance Measurements: Is there a Report Card in
Your Future,” 8 to 9 a.m., 101 BLSB.
• Psychiatry and Human Behavior, No scheduled grand rounds.
MEETING
Tuesday, November 2
• JMC Executive Council, 1:30 p.m., 218 Curtis.
Monday, November 29
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. Board, 9:30 to 11 a.m., 101 BLSB.
(December meeting).
SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, November 3
• TJU Choir rehearsal, 7 p.m., McClellan Hall. Also Wednesdays, Nov. 10, 17 and 24.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE
Wednesday, November 3
• Hospital Christian Fellowship brown bag Bible study, 1 to 2 p.m., 302 MOB. Call
Hyacinth Williams at 215-474-0864. Also Wednesdays, Nov. 10, 17 and 24.
Thursday, November 4
• Interfaith Prayer and Meditation 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 Thursdays, Nov. 11, 18 and 25.
SEMINAR
Monday, November 1
Reproductive Endocrinology, patients and employees wishing to learn about in vitro
fertilization (IVF) and related assisted reproductive technologies (ART) can attend free
evening seminars held regularly from 7 to 9 p.m. The seminars are conducted by The Women's
Institute. This seminar will be located at 5217 Militia Hill Road, Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
19462 (RSVP 610-834-1140, ext. 326) and Tuesday, November 23 in the Solis-Cohen
Auditorium, JAH, (RSVP 215-922-3173, ext. 320). |
