• Health and Fitness expo makes learning about healthy living fun
  The MGH and other Partners hospitals joined Boston's health, fitness and medical communities in the Hynes Convention Center for the Channel 7 News/CW 56 and Partners HealthCare Health and Fitness Expo June 23 and 24.

• Sharing disparities solutions and tools for change
  The MGH Disparities Solutions Center recently hosted a kick-off for its one-year Disparities Leadership Program May 30 and 31. The program is targeted to leaders from hospitals, health plans and community health centers across the country.

• Meet Robopsy
  A team of MGH radiologists and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate students won top honors in the 2007 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition May 16.

• New PICU sparkles at open house
  The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) celebrated its grand reopening on the sixth floor of the Bigelow Building with an open house June 11 for MGH employees and the PICU staff's families and friends.

• Honoring cancer survivors
  The Network for Patients and Families, a program of the MGH Cancer Center, sponsored a daylong celebration June 7 in recognition of National Cancer Survivors' Day. Current and former cancer patients took part in a variety of activities designed to aid in recovery and create peace during a stressful time.

• MGH men speak out against abuse
  An initiative based at the MGH acknowledged the Father's Day holiday by recognizing the important role men can play in ending all forms of gender violence.

• A gift for all faiths
  Retired MGHer George Terzides is a master of carpentry. For more than 30 years, he shared his gift for woodworking as a member of the MGH Buildings and Grounds staff, but his contributions to the MGH did not end with his retirement in 1995. When Terzides recently learned that the MGH Chapel needed a table for a variety of purposes — including displaying the menorah during Jewish services and for the interfaith Blessing of the Hands ceremony — he set right to work.

• MGH-MEEI Bridge: Clinical Connector opens July 16
  The MGH-Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) Bridge: Clinical Connector will be open for clinical traffic only beginning July 16. The Clinics Building first floor will close July 20.

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