In Brief – Jan. 7, 2019

Announcements

Facility Dogs Featured

Lancaster County Pet magazine features Kaia and Becky, two facility dogs at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, on the cover of its Winter 2019 issue. Read the article.

People

Holliman Wins Lifetime Leadership Award

Dr. James Holliman was named recipient of the Gautam Bodiwala Lifetime Leadership Achievement Award from the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). He received the award in recognition of his “extensive and continuous commitment to the International Federation for Emergency Medicine…in addition to extensive and continuous commitment to the specialty of emergency medicine in [his] own country,” wrote Dr. Jim Ducharme, IFEM president.

Upcoming Events

‘The Weight Is Over’

A panel of experts from Penn State Health Surgical Weight Loss Center will appear on a live call-in show on WHTM-TV abc27 titled “The Weight Is Over.” The panel will field questions about procedures, treatments and success stories:

• Wednesday, Jan. 9
• 7:30-8 p.m.
• Call-in number: 717-346-3333

Care for Latinx/Hispanic Patients

An Inclusion Academy Patient Care session will focus on “Providing Extraordinary Care for Latinx/Hispanic Patients:”

• Thursday, Jan. 10
• 7-8 a.m.
• Junker Auditorium
• Register here

ALS Luncheon

RSVP here by Jan. 10 for a talk by Nikolay Dokholyan of the Departments of Pharmacology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, titled “From Etiology to Therapeutics of Lou Gehrig’s Disease:”

• Wednesday, Jan. 16
• Noon-1 p.m.
• Junker Auditorium
• Zoom link

The presentation is part of the Research Quality Assurance Lunchtime Lecture Series. 

Wild Onions Call for Entries

Faculty and staff – both clinical and non-clinical – as well as patients, families, students and volunteers are invited to submit original literary, artistic or photographic work to Wild Onions by Tuesday, Jan. 15. The publication for the literary and visual arts is funded by The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine. Visit the Wild Onions website to submit a work. For more information, contact Tiffany Yeh or Xiaojie Liao. 

Trans 101 Training

Brian Patchcoski, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Ally Resource Center at Penn State, will conduct a training session to provide a greater understanding of transgender issues, introducing terminology, care consideration, culture and misconceptions:

• Tuesday, Jan. 22
• 10 a.m.- noon
• University Conference Center 302A
• RSVP to DIVERSITY@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Patient Experience Talk

Shanne Keeny, a Patient Experience project manager, will discuss her department, its roles and goals at the next Clinical Documentation Improvement Lunch and Learn Series:

• Tuesday, Jan. 22
• Noon-1 p.m.
• C3621
• Zoom link

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