December 7, 2007

What's Happening

Call for Macaluso Award nominations
Nominations now are being accepted for the Stephanie M. Macaluso, RN, Excellence in Clinical Practice Award, which is presented annually to recognize direct care providers throughout MGH Patient Care Services whose practice exemplifies the expert application of values personified by the late Stephanie M. Macaluso, RN. Nomination forms are available at the Gray Lobby information desk and must be submitted by Jan. 14. Recipients will be announced in March 2008. For more information, contact Mary Ellin Smith, RN, MS, at (617) 724-5801.

Senior HealthWISE lecture series
The MGH Senior HealthWISE lecture series will sponsor "Living with Arthritis" Dec. 13, from 11 am to noon in the Haber Conference Room. Suzanne Gauthier, OT, of the Arthritis Foundation, will present. For more information, call (617) 724-6756.

PIE Awards Ceremony
The 2007 Partners in Excellence Awards celebration will be held Dec. 14 at 3 pm in a new location — the Bulfinch Tent. An open reception for all MGH employees will be held from 4:15 to 5 pm. For more information, e-mail partnersinexcellence@partners.org.

Irvin H. Blank Commemorative Lecture
The MGH Wellman Center for Photomedicine will host the annual Irvin H. Blank Commemorative Lecture, "The Genetic Building Blocks of the Skin: The Paradigm of the Dermal-Epidermal Junction," Dec. 12, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in the Simches Research Center Auditorium. A reception will take place from 6:30 to 8 pm. Jouni Uitto, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology at Jefferson Medical College, will be the guest speaker. For more information, contact Nicole DeVoe at ndevoe@partners.org.

Wellman Center lecture
The MGH Wellman Center for Photomedicine will offer "PDT-Mediated Protein Damage and its Therapeutic Implications" Dec. 11, from 2:15 to 3:15 pm in the Thier Conference Room. A coffee reception will begin at 2 pm. Jakub Golab, MD, PhD, of the Department of Immunology and the Center for Biostructure Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland, will be the guest speaker. For more information, contact Nicole DeVoe at ndevoe@partners.org.