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03.05.10 MGHHOTLINE
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Workshop on study design
The Clinical Research Program is
offering a four-session seminar series,
“Clinical Effectiveness Research,”
March 17 and 31, April 14, and May 6
from 3:30 to 5 pm in the Simches
Research Center, Room 3130.
Throughout these sessions, faculty
will take participants through the
process of designing an outcomes study
using MGH clinical care data.
Enrollment is limited to 20 participants.
Application and approval is required.
To register, access http://hub.partners.
org/catalog/. For more information,
e-mail Lauren Michaels at
lmichaels@partners.org.
Ethics forum
The MGH Ethics Task Force is
sponsoring “Seeing the Unseen:
Spirituality as a Frequently
Overlooked Element in Clinical
Ethics Decision-Making” March 12
from noon to 1 pm in the Sweet
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Conference Room 432, Gray/Bigelow
Building. Panelists will be Betsy
Catlin, MD, chief of MGH Neonatology;
Angelika Zollfrank, MDiv, BCC, of
the MGH Chaplaincy; and Wendy
Cadge, PhD, assistant professor of
Sociology at Brandeis University. Alex
Cist, MD, of the MGH Pulmonary
and Critical Care Unit, will moderate.
For more information, contact
Jennifer Hood at jphood@partners.org.
MGH Senior HealthWISE
MGH Senior HealthWISE is offering a
free seminar for seniors ages 60 years
and older, “Healthy Resolutions,”
March 11 from 11 am to noon in the
Haber Conference Room with Sandy
Connor, certified personal trainer
and group fitness instructor at The
Clubs at Charles River Park. For
more information, call 617-724-6756.
College preparation services
The MGH has partnered with Jewish
Vocational Service (JVS) to offer a
variety of college preparation services
on-site at the hospital. Services cover
topics such as preparing for college
placement tests, note-taking and
study skills, and assistance with the
college application and financial aid
process. For more information or
to enroll, contact Amy Zydanowicz,
of JVS, at 617-399-3187 or
azydanowicz@jvs-boston.com.
Evacuation drill on March 11
The MGH will be testing the inpatient
component of its evacuation plan
during an evacuation drill March 11
from 4 to 8 pm. This drill will involve
the evacuation of 25 volunteer
simulated adult patients and five
infant mannequins from three patient
care units to an assembly point at
the Yawkey Center for Outpatient
Care. In a real event that requires
evacuation, the Yawkey Center is one
of several locations that could be
used to temporarily house patients.
During the drill, staff may be seen
transporting participants from the
main hospital to the Yawkey Center.
MGH Police and Security and personnel
from other departments will be
stationed along the evacuation route
to ensure the safety of patients, visitors,
staff and drill participants. For more
information, contact David Reisman
at 617-724-4163 or dreisman@
partners.org.
MassGeneral for Children at
North Shore Medical Center
afTer More Than 105 years of serving families on the North Shore
and a 12-year clinical collaboration with MassGeneral Hospital
for Children, North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) North Shore
Children’s Hospital
is changing its
name to reflect
its full level of
integration. NSMC
North Shore Children’s Hospital has been renamed MassGeneral for
Children at North Shore Medical Center.
As part of this transition, MassGeneral Hospital for Children
(MGHfC) has added all of NSMC’s in-hospital pediatricians to its
medical staff. “We are delighted to enhance our longtime partnership
with North Shore Children’s Hospital,” says Ronald Kleinman, MD,
physician-in-chief of MGHfC and director of Partners Pediatrics.
“Through this collaboration, MGHfC now offers a network of services
on the North Shore that includes pediatric outpatient specialty
services in Danvers and Salem, as well as around-the-clock physician
care on the NSMC pediatric inpatient floors and in its pediatric
emergency department.”
Adds MGHfC Surgeon-in-Chief Joseph P. Vacanti, MD, “MGHfC’s
expansion of pediatric specialty services on the North Shore was based
on a thorough analysis of the needs of patients and their pediatricians
in the area. Until this expansion, for example, pediatric orthopædic
surgery was not offered locally, requiring children and their
families to travel to Boston for this care. Now pediatric orthopædic
surgery is offered in Danvers, and many other specialty services –
including cardiology, gastroenterology and nutrition, endocrinology,
nephrology, rheumatology, pediatric surgery, hematology and
oncology, orthopædics, neurology and infectious disease – are offered
in Danvers or Salem, and in some cases, in both locations.”
“This is an exciting time for both our patients and our physicians,”
says Edward Bailey, MD, NSMC’s chair of pediatrics. “Our children’s
hospital has built its reputation around the quality, comfort and
extremely high level of care we provide to pediatric patients on the
North Shore. With Mass General, we will continue offering patients
the same friendly and competent faces but at the same time expand
the scope of expertise available.”
For more information about MassGeneral for Children at NSMC,
visit www.nsmc.partners.org/web/program/pediatrics. For a complete
list of pediatric services available in Danvers and Salem, visit
www.massgeneralforchildren.org/communitylocations. n
Mitchell John Salon fundraising
event benefits Haiti
Mitchell John Salon, located at
67 Broad St. in Boston, is holding a
fundraising event to support the MGH
Haitian Relief Fund. On March 29,
the salon will donate 100 percent
of its service sales to the MGH
Haitian Relief Fund. To schedule an
appointment, call 617-951-0122.
Save the date for
19th Annual Gange Lecture
The Wellman Center for Photomedicine
will host its 19th Annual R. William
Gange Lecture Dec. 2, 2010, in
the Simches Research Center,
Room 3110. A reception will be held
at 5 pm, followed by the lecture at
5:30. Irene E. Kochevar, PhD, of the
Wellman Center, will present.