• MGH Voice Center saves voices, changes lives
  For MGH patient John Ward, his voice is his livelihood. As a professor of Business Management at Northwestern University in Chicago and a consultant for a leading business school in Switzerland, Ward must speak clearly and project his voice so that his students can hear his sought-after lectures. He also has many public speaking engagements, requiring him to use his voice three to six hours a day. In 2000, his ability to teach and lecture was threatened when his normal speaking voice turned into a raspy whisper.

• MGH Revere gets a taste of the world
  Employees from the MGH Revere HealthCare Center had the opportunity to sample foods, desserts and beverages from more than 25 cultures at the Multicultural Food Festival held April 7 at the health center. The types of food and beverages included Cambodian, Irish, Moroccan, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Jewish, French and many others, with employees
  contributing all the international treats.

• Be Fit program energizes Environmental Services team
  Without the right support and motivation, it can often be hard to stay on track with exercising and eating right. The MGH Environmental Services Be Fit team has not run into this problem because of the advice and support they have received from their personal trainer, Robert Chalukian of the Clubs at Charles River Park, and their nutritionist, Mary-Jon Ludy, MS, RD, of MGH Nutrition and Food Services.

• Realize the power of giving life through organ donation
  According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, currently there are 88,191 candidates on the waiting list for organ transplants. Every 14 minutes another person's name is added to the list who await lifesaving organ transplants, and every day 16 people in the United States die waiting for organ transplants. Jennifer Jackson, a 22-year-old from Vermont, was one of those candidates waiting for a double lung transplant until she died July 18, 2004. She spent approximately two and a half years on the waiting list.

• Lewandrowski named 2005 Bowditch Award winner
  Kent Lewandrowski, MD, associate chief for Clinical Operations in Pathology, was named the recipient of the annual Nathaniel Bowditch Prize. The prize —an award certificate, a lapel pin and a check for $5,000 — was presented last week at a luncheon honoring the nominees.

• MGH: Simply exceptional
  In a new national ranking of exceptional hospitals in the country, the MGH was at the top of the list. The results were published in the March/April issue of Consumers Digest as part of an article “Vital Signs: Putting Hospitals to the Test.”

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