May 12, 2006

EAP seminar
The MGH Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is hosting "Words Can Work: Helping Kids Make Healthy Choices" May 18, from noon to 1 pm in the Thier Conference Room. Jeanne Blake, former CBS4 news anchor, and Paula Rauch, MD, an MGH child psychiatrist, will present. For more information, call (617) 726-6976.

CNY blood drive
Employees located at CNY are invited to participate in a blood drive May 17, from 8:30 am to 2 pm. The MGH Bloodmobile will be located in front of Building 149. For more information or to make an appointment, contact AnnMarie Cloonan at (617) 724-8902.

Senior HealthWISE events
MGH Senior HealthWISE will host a group discussion "Advance Directives: How, What, Where, When, Why?" May 15, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm at the Hill House, 127 Mount Vernon St., Boston. Barbara Moscowitz, MSW, will serve as facilitator. Senior HealthWISE also will host a "Spring Into Fitness" exercise session May 17, from 11 am to 1 pm at The Clubs at Charles River Park. Lunch will be served, and registration is required. For more information or to register for the exercise session, call (617) 724-6756.

Wellman Center lecture series
The Wellman Center for Photomedicine lecture series will host "Diffuse Optical Measurements of Tissue Blood Flow and Oxygenation During Photodynamic Therapy" May 16, from 2:15 to 3:15 pm in the Thier Conference Room. A coffee reception will be held at 2 pm. For a complete schedule of Wellman Center events, visit www.massgeneral.org/wellman/calendar.asp.

Clinical Research Day
The annual MGH Clinical Research Day will be held May 25. Robert Califf, MD, vice chancellor for Clinical Research at Duke University Medical Center, will give the keynote address at 8 am in the O'Keeffe Auditorium. A poster session and the Investigator Resource Fair will begin at 10 am in the Bulfinch Tent, and a panel
discussion about careers in clinical research will take place at 11:30 am in the O'Keeffe Auditorium. The Community Education Fair will be held from 8:30 am to 1 pm in the Main Corridor. For information about the events, contact Gina Gillis
at (617) 726-5500 or ggillis@partners.org or visit crnet.mgh.harvard.edu.

Ricardo Diaz Award nominations
Nominations now are being accepted for the Ricardo Diaz Memorial Award. MGH employees who work in nonsupervisory, clerical/secretarial, technologist and professional roles in the following departments are eligible for the award: Buildings and Grounds, Environmental Services, Materials Management, Nutrition and Food Services, Police and Security. Forms can be found at is.partners.org/hr/New_Web/mgh/MGH_Ricardo_Diaz.htm or at Gray sub-basement 017, Clinics 081, Blake 017, Clinics 044 and the Materials Management Office in the Gray basement. Nominations are due by May 26 at 3 pm and can be dropped off at Clinics 117 or e-mailed to mghhrevents@partners.org.

Family memberships at The Clubs
The Clubs at Charles River Park is offering MGH employees summer family memberships. One full privilege membership and two teen, youth or child memberships will be offered for $695, and an additional teen, youth or child can be added for $120. An individual MGH employee summer membership is $350. For more information, call (617) 726-2900.