February 23, 2001

Ash Wednesday services
Ash Wednesday services will be held at the MGH Chapel, Ellison 1, Feb. 28. Roman Catholic Mass will be offered at 11 am and 4 pm. An Ecumenical service will be held at 12:15 pm. Ashes will be distributed in the Chapel from 9 am to 5 pm, and will be brought to each patient floor once during the day between 8 am and 5 pm. Ashes will be distributed at Building 149, CNY, West Wing, from noon to 2 pm, and at the MGH Revere Health Center, Sweet Conference Room, from 10:30 to 11:30 am. All Chapel services are broadcast on Channel 16 through the in-house television system.

End-of-life seminar
The Ethics in Clinical Practice Committee, the Palliative Care Service and the Center for Clinical and Professional Development for Patient Care Services will present "Living with Death," the first in a four-part series about death and dying, March 8 from 8 to 11 am and noon to 3 pm in the O'Keeffe Auditorium. The program will include a lecture, discussion and a videotape from the PBS series on the subject. To register, call 726-3111.

HMS/CNY shuttle service
The MGH Cancer Center, the Executive Committee on Research and Partners Transportation will offer a shuttle service for medical students between Vanderbilt Hall at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the research facilities at CNY, starting March 5. Schedules will be posted at Vanderbilt Hall, HMS, and Building 149, CNY. For more information, call Robin Hoyle at 726-5613.

Boston Stroke Society symposium
The Boston Stroke Society will hold a symposium, "Invasive Management of Carotid Artery Disease: Endarterectomy vs. Stent Placement," March 7, 7:30 to 9:15 pm in the Wellman Conference Room. A limited-seating dinner prior to the event also will be held with advance reservations. Christopher Putman, MD, chief of Interventional Neuroradiology at the MGH, will be a featured speaker. The symposium is sponsored by the MGH Neurology, Neuroradiology and Neurosurgery departments. To make a reservation, send e-mail to ackerman.robert@mgh.harvard.edu by March 2. Cost of dinner is $15 for staff, $5 for residents and fellows. Checks made out to the Boston Stroke Society should be sent to Robert Ackerman, MD, prior to the event.

House officer retreat
The fourth annual Partners House Officer Core Curriculum Retreat will be held Feb. 27 and 28. Interns and first-year residents from all clinical specialties are invited to attend. Topics will include "Giving Patients Bad News," "Residents as Teachers," "Domestic Violence," and "Mapping out a Career Path Post-Residency." Exhibits on financial planning, global medicine, medical literature, Partners benefits and community service opportunities also will be offered. For more information, contact the Office of Graduate Medical Education at 726-5440.

EAP seminar series
The MGH Employee Assistance Program (EAP) will host "Ages and Stages," a two-part work/life seminar series, in March. "Part I: Infancy Through Pre-Adolescence" will be presented by Paula Rauch, MD, director of Child Psychiatry Consultation at the MGH, March 8, noon to 1 pm in the Wellman Conference Room. For more information, call the EAP at 726-6976.