June 8, 2007

What's Happening

Senior HealthWISE events
The MGH Senior HealthWISE lecture series will host "Creating Space: Some Ideas About Organizing One's Home and Letting Go" June 14, from 11 am to noon in the Haber Conference Room. Cristina Sorrentino, LICSW, PhD, of the Boston University School of Social Work, will present. Senior HealthWISE also will offer free hypertension screenings and blood pressure checks June 18, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm in the West End Civic Association Community Room, One Emerson Place. For more information, call (617) 724-6756.

MGH Men Against Abuse Father's Day event
MGH Men Against Abuse will host its third annual Father's Day event June 12. The day will begin with a service in the MGH Chapel on Ellison 1 from 9 to 10 am to acknowledge the positive role men can play to help eliminate domestic violence. The group also will host an information table in the Main Corridor from 10 am to 2 pm to share information and educational materials about domestic violence. For more information, call Lenny DeBenedictis at (617) 724-2206 or Jim Heffernan at (617) 726-2684 or visit www2.massgeneral.org/menagainstabuse.

Boston Health and Fitness Expo
Partners HealthCare and Channel 7/CW 56 will host the Boston Health and Fitness Expo June 23 and 24 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. This free event is open to the community and will feature health tests and screenings, healthy cooking demonstrations, interactive sports and fitness activities, celebrity guests and more. For more information, visit www.bostonhealthexpo.com.

World Blood Donor Day
In honor of World Blood Donor Day June 14, the MGH Blood Donor Center will offer a free pizza lunch to those who give blood on that day. The Blood Donor Center is located in the Gray Lobby and is open for whole blood donations Tuesday through Thursday, from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm and Friday, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Walk-ins are welcome. For more information, call (617) 726-8171.

Volunteer and Interpreter Services have relocated
MGH Volunteer and Interpreter Services have moved from the Clinics Building to the Gray Bigelow Building, Suite 015. All phone numbers remain the same. The Volunteer Services phone number is (617) 726-8540 and the Interpreter Services phone number is (617) 726-6966.

NAAAP professional development workshop
Through a collaboration with the National Association of Asian-American Professionals, MGH Training and Workforce Development will offer a professional development workshop, "Communicating with Confidence," June 26, from 5:30 to 8:30 pm at the Simches Center, Room 3110. The workshop will help participants strengthen frequently used skills such as participating in meetings, improving personal confidence, increasing the effectiveness of phone and e-mail conversations, and controlling nervousness. Lau Lapides, a coach and trainer with the Speech Improvement Company, Inc., will present. Seating is limited. For more information or to register, visit www.naaapboston.org/Events.do?id=4771. MGH participants should enter "MGH" and their department in the RSVP comments field of the online registration form.