• MGHers still can put themselves in the way – the United Way
  The 2003 MGH United Way campaign soon will be coming to a close, but MGHers still have time to help make a difference in someone's life by making a donation. All MGHers who make a donation to the campaign also are automatically entered into a weekly raffle drawing.
  

• PACE progress: Contact center makes a difference
  Patricia Parrelli has been an MGH employee for 25 years – 20 of those years in her current department, Pediatric Surgery. As a part-time secretary in the outpatient practice, she juggles many tasks – fielding hundreds of calls from patients, scheduling surgeries, helping patients check in for their appointments – to name just a few.

• MGH recognizes National Disability Mentoring Day
  Mentoring is an activity that many MGH employees participate in when an opportunity arises. A group of MGHers recently had such an opportunity when the MGH Community Benefits School Partnership Program and MGH Human Resources hosted National Disability Mentoring Day Oct. 15.

• Gene essential to puberty identified
  By studying patients who fail to undergo puberty, MGH researchers and collaborators from Britain have identified a gene that appears to be a key regulator of puberty in humans and in mice.

• MGH physicians changing the face of medicine
  Susan Briggs, MD, MPH, of MGH Surgery, and Denise L.Faustman, MD, director of the MGH Immunobiology Laboratory, are being highlighted as two of the physicians in the National Institute of Medicine exhibit "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians."

• Strategic planning spotlight: Optimal Use of Campus Capacity Task Force
  Since the MGH embarked on an intensive strategic planning effort several months ago to determine the future direction of its clinical programs, members of seven task forces have been meeting, planning and preparing to make preliminary recommendations to the Strategic Planning Steering Committee. Hotline is highlighting the work of some of these task forces. This week's highlight is the Optimal Use of Campus Capacity Task Force.

• MGHers walk for a cause close to the heart
  More than 300 MGH employees, physicians, researchers, family members and friends
  participated in the annual American Heart Association's (AHA) Boston Heart Walk Sept. 20 in honor of the late Brian McGovern, MD, an MGH cardiologist, who was tragically killed earlier this year.

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