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Medical Lake High School Class of 1964 - June 20. Information on classmates is requested. Contact Ilse Box Long at omalong1900@gmail.com.
Lewis and Clark High School Class of 1964 - Sept. 5-7. Activities include: grade school get-togethers on Friday; a tour of the high school and reunion dinner at the Davenport Hotel on Saturday; and golf and picnic at Manito Park on Sunday. Visit http://www.lewisandclark64.com or call (509) 448-1838 for moreinformation.
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Medical Lake High School Class of 1964 - June 20. Information on classmates is requested. Contact Ilse Box Long at omalong1900@gmail.com.
Lewis and Clark High School Class of 1964 - Sept. 5-7. Activities include: grade school get-togethers on Friday; a tour of the high school and reunion dinner at the Davenport Hotel on Saturday; and golf and picnic at Manito Park on Sunday. Visit http://www.lewisandclark64.com or call (509) 448-1838 for moreinformation.
USS Mount McKinley Association 26th Annual Reunion - Sept. 17-21. A reunion for those who served on the Amphibious Force Flagship, USS Mount McKinley AGC/LCC-7 (1944-1970) and other members of the Flagship Alliance group will be held in Colorado Springs, Colo. For more information, contact Dwight Janzen at djanzen4@msn.com or call (509) 534-3649 on evenings orweekends.
Ernst Home Center Former Employees - A potluck will be held at the gazebo in Manito Park on Aug. 2, 1-5 p.m. Call Rita at (509) 599-6635 for moreinformation.
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East Carolina Universitys Project STEPP program, which supports students with learning disabilities who aspire to achieve a college education, has received a nearly $950,000 donation from Walter and Marie Williams of Greenville.
The ECU Board of Trustees acknowledged the gift at its meeting on April 25 and voted to rename the program the Walter and Marie Williams STEPP Program. The Williamses were early supporters of this innovative program, which began full-time operation in 2007.
Their total personal and extended support for the STEPP Program (including family and company gifts) is now at $1,124,943, according to Board of Trustees documents.
Sarah Williams, Project STEPP director, said the gift is a fantastic start toward building a $4 million endowment to ensure the program is sustainable.
STEPP administrators offer academic, social and life skills support to a select number of students with ADHD or learning disabilities in reading, writing or math. By partnering with these students, their families, and a variety of educational communities, Project STEPP fosters a network of opportunities and resources to empower and support students from admission to graduation.
So many of the students in our program had been told they would never go to college and now many of them are excelling, Sarah Williams said.
Educators still have much to do in the way of helping bridge the transition for students with learning disabilities to the college setting, she said. The STEPP program is unique in the nation. While there are programs available to support students who have learning disabilities on some other campuses, many are very expensive. Walter and Marie Williams made it possible for students in our program to have access to college as well as the support they need to be successful without additional costs to the student.
Walter Williams, president of the Trade-Wilco chain of convenience stores, received a bachelors degree in 1951 and a masters degree in 1955, both from East Carolina. Marie Williams graduated from East Carolina in 1953.
Project STEPP also receives support from the Oak Foundation of Geneva, Switzerland, and from the Harold H. Bate Foundation and the Peter J. Frenkel Foundation.
An incoming student at the Brody School of Medicine has earned a substantial scholarship that will help pay for medical school.
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A 7-year-old student died suddenly after becoming ill at a city public school on Wednesday.
The child, a first grader at Jackson School in South Philadelphia, experienced a medical emergency and appeared to stop breathing. Classroom staff administered CPR and called 911, and the child was taken to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he was pronounced dead.
"It's shocking, and it's tragic, and we extend our deepest sympathies to the family," said School District spokesman Fernando Gallard.
There was no nurse at Jackson at the time the child, whose name was not released, became ill, Gallard said. The school of 450 students has a nurse every Thursday and every other Friday.
Karyn Lynch, deputy chief of student services, emphasized that people trained in CPR and first aid responded to the child as soon as they became aware he was in distress.
"The minute they looked over and saw him, they immediately performed CPR and called 911," Lynch said.
It was not clear whether the child had a preexisting medical condition. School officials cannot discuss students' medical histories.
Asked whether having a nurse in the building would have made a difference in the child's death, Gallard said: "That's a very difficult question to answer, not knowing what occurred. We're not medical experts. There were trained personnel with CPR certification."
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Newswise BOSTON (May 20, 2014) Two prominent faculty members of the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology and Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Schepens Eye Research Institute were selected to receive prestigious 2015 achievement awards from The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). These honors were announced during the ARVO 2014 Annual Meeting held May 4 through 8 in Orlando, Florida.
Patricia DAmore, Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.R.V.O., is the recipient of the 2015 Proctor Medal, honoring her outstanding research contributions to ophthalmology. Established in 1949, The Proctor Medal is named for Dr. Francis I. Proctor, an ophthalmologist who conducted extensive research on the etiology and treatment of trachoma. This prestigious award honors outstanding research in the basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology. This was the first ophthalmology-related award to recognize basic scientists in the field.
ARVO is honored to have Dr. DAmore, as the recipient of the 2015 Proctor Medal. Her outstanding research on vascular growth and development throughout her career will continue the tradition of superb and highly deserving Proctor Medal recipients. We will all look forward to her presentation at the ARVO 2015 annual meeting, said William Mieler, M.D., F.A.R.V.O., President of ARVO.
Joan W. Miller, M.D., F.A.R.V.O., is the recipient of the 2015 Mildred Weisenfeld Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology recognizing her distinguished scholarly contributions to the clinical practice of ophthalmology. The Mildred Weisenfeld Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology was established as a tribute to Ms. Weisenfeld's outstanding contributions to the field, which include the founding of Fight for Sight in 1946. Dr. Miller is the first woman to ever win this honor.
Dr. Miller's leading-edge research on ocular angiogenesis has changed the lives of vision impaired persons across the globe. She is most deserving of this very important ARVO Achievement Award, said Justine Smith, Ph.D., F.R.A.N.Z.C.O., F.A.R.V.O., Immediate Past President of ARVO.
Dr. D'Amore is the Director of Research at Schepens Eye Research Institute, as well as the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. An internationally recognized expert in the field of angiogenesis, Dr. D'Amore will present the Proctor Award Lecture at the ARVO 2015 Annual Meeting in Denver Colorado, at which time she will receive the Proctor Medal. The Proctor Lecture will also be published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.
Dr. Miller is the Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2002 Dr. Miller became the first woman physician to be appointed Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, and in 2003 she became first woman ever appointed to chair the HMS/Mass. Eye and Ear department. Dr. Miller will receive the Weisenfeld Award and deliver the honorary lecture at the ARVO 2015 Annual Meeting. The Weisenfeld Lecture will also be published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.
Drs. DAmore and Miller have been at the forefront of angiogenesis and vision research for over three decades. Together, they have made numerous seminal discoveries in the field of ophthalmology forming new paradigms in basic science and successfully translating groundbreaking discoveries into the most compelling benefits of anti-angiogenic therapy. Their foremost transformative contributions include the identification of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as the elusive Factor X that causes pathological blood vessel growth in blinding neovascular eye diseases. These investigations formed the scientific foundations of anti-VEGF therapies, which were first approved for clinical use in 2004 and currently used to treat various cancers and intraocular vascular diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The impact of their research has been extraordinary: more than 500,000 ophthalmic patients in the U.S. and over 1 million worldwide are treated annually with all anti-VEGF agents combined, and it is estimated that two years of anti-VEGF treatment for neovascular AMD reduces visual impairment by 37% and legal blindness by 72%.
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When Anne L. Taylor went to medical school in the early 1970s, she was one of a very small number of women in her class. Now the Brooklyn native, as professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and vice dean for academic affairs, is well aware that women continue to lag behind men in advancement in academic medicine, despite the nearly equal numbers of men and women students in medical school.
Somewhere between medical school and the highest levels of leadership in academic medicine we lose women, Taylor said. We have some inkling of the reasons, but theyre not the same as they were 20 or 25 years ago. Back then there were explicit prejudicial policies. Those explicit policies have gone away, but we have still failed to fully recognize the cumulative unintended barriers faced by women in developing careers in academic medicine.
That is one of the reasons why Taylor, who is responsible for programs in support of faculty at the Medical Centers College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S), helped found the Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty, named for a 1922 graduate of P&S who was the first female surgical intern at what is now New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Frantz was a distinguished faculty member at P&S her entire career at a time when this was very uncommon. The society will empower women faculty to advance in their careers, develop personally and be full participants in institutional growth and vitality, Taylor said.
Taylors own medical research has focused on cardiovascular disease in women and underrepresented minorities, as well as the knowledge gap in diverse communities that is, how well women in different ethnic and racial groups understand their risk for cardiovascular disease.
Her interest in faculty development and diversity has been driven in large part by the recognition that her own success wouldnt have been possible without the superb mentoring she received early in her academic career. The activities and programs of the Frantz Society and the P&S Diversity Task Force will help the Medical Center meet its goal of enhancing diversity. And, for Taylor, achieving true diversity in the College of Physicians and Surgeons faculty goes beyond the recruitment and promotion of women and underrepresented minorities but also fosters inclusiveness and success within the colleges community.
Diversity encompasses culture, ethnicity, disability status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status she said. The first person in a family to graduate from college and go on to medical school has a very different experience than someone who comes from a long line of professors, physicians and other professionals. The meaning of diversity should encompass all of those things. The College of Physicians and Surgeons is a preeminent medical school with community, national, and global impact. By being diverse and inclusive, we enhance our ability to recruit the best in the world.
A Over the last five years, our professional development office has been presenting a broad set of programs to support all College of Physicians and Surgeons faculty members. Were now starting to drill down and look at faculty subgroups. The Frantz Society was developed to address issues specific to women articulated in 2005, when P&S established a committee on the status of women at the college. It issued a series of recommendations aimed at improving career development for women faculty, yet women facultys career development still did not parallel that of their male colleagues. Having an advisory committee wasnt enough. We needed a larger more proaction group that would establish career development programs to address the unique needs of women. The committee eventually settled on developing a society for women faculty that would be very inclusiveits open to all faculty, trainees and studentsand allow us to look carefully at how to meet the unserved needs of women faculty so we maximize their opportunities to contribute to the institution as well as to achieve satisfying careers.
A Weve launched our first peer-mentorship group for women in the basic sciences, including both junior and senior faculty. We asked them, What would be helpful to you? What are the kinds of things you want to discuss? How can we assist you in achieving your goals? This format is a setting that is very conducive to women expressing things that they may not express in a mixed gender group, of sharing the experiences and successes of more senior faculty. When we poll our faculty, women always express a greater need for networking opportunities. We dont hear this from men as much. The group has outlined a series of discussion topics over the next year. We plan to utilize this format for other groups of women faculty organized around women with common career paths. We expect that the Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society will provide mentorship, but will also celebrate the accomplishments of our women faculty. We want to make sure that were mindful about being inclusivefor example, in invitations to lectureships and nominations for honors and awards.
A The number of underrepresented minorities in academic medicine remains very small, and what we see at the College of Physicians and Surgeons is absolutely consistent with what we see nationally. Additionally, data aggregated from all 130 U.S. and Canadian medical schools show that women and underrepresented minority faculty have slower career progression, are less likely to have high quality mentoring and sponsorship relationships and are less likely to remain in academic medicine. These groups also experience an increased burden of service since they then are disproportionately asked to do academic service. Our diversity committee has helped us to be attentive to the career development needs of these faculty. Diversity is not just about recruiting larger numbers of women and diverse groups; its also making sure of equal mentorship, sponsorship, career development opportunities and meaningful inclusion in the academic community.
A The College of Physicians and Surgeons and its partner hospital offer extraordinary care options to the patients we serve, not just within our very diverse Washington Heights community, but also in the tri-state region, nationally and internationally. Anyone who practices medicine or public health recognizes that to do a good job in the clinical care of patients, you have to understand cultural background, belief systems, and be able to communicate in a meaningful way. In addition, disease burden differs by demographic groups and we need to understand the mechanisms to be able to provide optimal care. Its a reason why healthcare professionals providing patient care should reflect the communities they serve.
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WHILE 12-hour weekend shifts for nurses are typical, its not common to do it while also attending medical school full-time.
But thats what Mazvita Ethel Simoyi did during her first year at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, commuting every weekend to a hospital in Washington, D.C. to help pay for her education.
Now set to earn her M.D. degree from UVA this month, Simoyi laughed when asked how she endured the relentless schedule of work, schoolwork and commuting.
I honestly do not know how I did it, she said. Necessity makes you rise to the occasion.
Lifelong Dream
Simoyi knew she wanted to be a doctor from the time she was 5 or 6, when her father, Mike Simoyi, a general practitioner in Zimbabwe, brought her to his clinic to observe a tubal ligation.
I stood on a stool in the operating room, looking at him make the incision, she said.
As she got older, she helped direct patients at the clinic where her father worked with her mother Regina, a nurse. The time she spent there deepened her commitment to medicine.
The patients [at my parents clinic] are very, very grateful for the help they receive, she said.
My father is also very involved in public health, and educating people at a time when HIV and AIDS was beginning to get a lot of attention. Thats why I wanted to be a doctor so I could help people and share my knowledge with them.
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