June 11, 1999 Table of Contents

June 11, 1999 Table of Contents

June 11, 1999

Volunteer Recognition Day Award ceremony keeps crowd cool
Despite the day's record-breaking heat, employees, leadership and trustees, families and friends stayed cool beneath the Bulfinch Tent as they applauded some of the hospital's most vital members — its volunteers — at the annual MGH Volunteer Recognition Day Award ceremony June 7.

Healthy fun under the sun
Health screenings and safety demonstrations were among the activities Revere residents participated in at the MGH·Revere HealthCare Center's annual health fair June 5.

MGHers reveal their artistic side
Nikki Zapol of MGH Corporate Sponsored Licensing was one of four first-place winners in the MGH Photography Department's second annual amateur photo contest.

Interferon treatment shrinks child's tumor
Researchers from the MGH and Children's Hospital recently reported the successful treatment of a child with a recurrent jaw tumor using the anti-angiogenic drug interferon alfa-2a.

	A neighborly gift to the Gillette Center Through the Lynn General Electric (GE) Employees' Good Neighbor Fund, employees of the GE branch in Lynn, Mass., truly have been good neighbors to the Gillette Center for Women's Cancers at the MGH.

	MGH neurosurgeon honored Robert Ojemann, MD, director of the MGH Brain Tumor Center, received the C. Miller Fisher, MD, Award for outstanding accomplishment in surgical management of cerbrovascular disease at the American Heart Association's Third Annual Stroke Awareness Awards luncheon at the Boston Copley Marriott Hotel May 14.

	Employee blood drive kicks into high gear with MGH club competition Healthy competition was the name of the game for four MGH clubs vying to give the most blood donations to the MGH Blood Donor Center during May.
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