May 19, 2006

What's Happening

Senior HealthWISE events
MGH Senior HealthWISE will host free hypertension screenings and a discussion May 22, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm at the West End Library and May 24, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm at the West End Civic Association Community Room at One Emerson Place. Cheryl Wall, RN, BSN, will lead both groups. The Senior HealthWISE lecture series will host "Glaucoma" May 23, from 11 am to noon in the Walcott Conference Rooms, with guest speaker James Hung, MD, of Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston. For more information, call (617) 724-6756.

POPPS fair
MGH Police and Security and Outside Services, Photography and Parking (POPPS) will host a crime prevention and safety fair May 25, from 11 am to 2 pm at the CNY 149 Atrium. This year's theme is "Protecting You in This Changing World" and will include information on management of aggressive behavior, identity theft, crime prevention and safety for all ages. Employees will be available to offer information and answer questions about each department's programs and services.

Wellman Center lecture
The Wellman Center for Photomedicine will host "Going for the Nucleus: A PDT Story" May 30, from 2:15 to 3:15 pm in the Thier Conference Room. A coffee reception will be held at 2 pm. To see a complete schedule of Wellman Center events, visits www.massgeneral.org/wellman/calendar.asp.

Clinical pastoral education fellowships
The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center and the MGH Department of Nursing are offering fellowships for the 2007 MGH Clinical Pastoral Education Program for health care providers. Fellowships are open to clinicians from any discipline who work directly with patients and families. The part-time program meets Mondays, from 8:30 am to 5 pm beginning Jan. 8, 2007. The deadline for fellowship applications is Sept. 1. For more information, call the Chaplaincy at (617) 726-4774 or contact Rev. Angelika Zollfrank at (617) 724-3227.

Ascension Thursday mass schedule
MGH Chaplaincy will celebrate Ascension Thursday masses May 24, at 4 pm and May 25, at 11 am and 4 pm. All services will take place at the Chapel located on Ellison 1 across from the MGH Gift Shop.

New location for MGH Public Affairs
MGH Public Affairs has moved from 165 Charles River Plaza to 50 Staniford St., eighth floor, Suite 830. Phone numbers remain the same. The main number is (617) 726-2206 and the fax number is (617) 726-7475.

MGH Revere HealthCare Center road race
The MGH Revere HealthCare Center will host its annual road race and three-mile walk June 17. Registration is at 7:15 am. The road race begins at 8:30 am, the walk at 9 am and the children's race at 10 am. Online registration is available at www.coolrunning.com/major/06/reveremoves. Proceeds will benefit the MGH Youth Zone. For more information, contact Bernice MacIntyre at (781) 485-6062 or bmmacintyre@partners.org.