Calendar

You can submit calendar items and announcements to Valerie Hope Goldstein by e-mail at vgoldste@bidmc.harvard.edu



Wed., Aug. 27, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Headache Support Group
A drop-in open discussion meeting for people with migraines and other headaches. Meetings are held the last Wednesday of each month throughout the year in The Learning Center (Shapiro Clinical Center, ground floor). For further information, contact The Learning Center at (66)7-9100, or the group's moderator, Margo Coletti, at mcoletti@bidmc.harvard.edu.


Wed., Aug. 27 or Wed., Sept. 24, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monthly On-Site Fidelity Retirement
Counseling Sessions
To arrange an appointment on one of these dates with a Fidelity Retirement Counselor, please call 1-800-642-7131. Counselors can help with determining an appropriate asset allocation strategy, diversifying your investment account, or handling retirement planning.

For your convenience, you can discuss these questions with a Fidelity Retirement Service Specialist over the phone, by calling 1-800-343-0860 (or for Spanish please call 1-877-297-3017). Specialists also can answer questions concerning

• your Fidelity Retirement Plan features
• account balances
• enrolling in the plan
• transactions such as changing your elections for future
• contributions or transferring money between investment options
• obtaining information about investment options, forms or fund performance.

As a reminder, you can also access your account via NetBenefits at http://fidelity.com/atwork


Thurs., Sept. 18, 8 a.m. (Medical Grand Rounds)
The Sara and Arnold Grandberg Lecture in Primary Care Medicine
"Sharing Decisions: What's In It For You?"
Speaker: Angela Coulter, Ph.D., chief executive of Picker Institute Europe, a UK-registered charity that works with European health care providers to obtain feedback from patients and promote patient-centered care. Coulter is a widely published author on health policy topics, and is Visiting Professor in Health Services Research at the University of Oxford, Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, a Governor of Oxford Brookes University and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine.

The Grandberg Lectureship was established in 1995 by the late Sara and Arnold Grandberg. The goal of the lectures is to promote new ideas and issues in primary care that would benefit clinicians and the patients they serve.

Kennedy G2A, West Campus
Christine Carr, ccarr@bidmc.harvard.edu


SAVE THE DATE!
Sat., Sept. 20, 10 a.m. (registration at 9 a.m.)
2003 Boston Heart Walk

MDC Lederman Field on the Charles River Esplanade
BIDMC is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s walk, which is being co-chaired by BIDMC President and CEO Paul Levy and Boston Red Sox Executive Vice President Mike Dee. Help raise money by joining in this scenic walk around the Charles. Team captains can sign up now.
Contact: Deb Schoenthaler at dschoent@bidmc.harvard.edu or (75)4-8774


Wed., Oct. 1, 9:30 a.m.
Ninth Annual Chaim Mayman Memorial Lecture:
"Neurobiology of Vascular Headaches:
From the Past and Into the Future"
Sherman Auditorium, BIDMC
Clifford Saper, M.D., Chairman, Department of Neurology, announces the Ninth Annual Chaim Mayman Memorial Lecture to be held at BIDMC with speaker Michael A. Moskowitz, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Wed., Oct. 1, 5 to 7 p.m.
Annual Service Awards Ceremony
The ceremony will honor employees celebrating 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 or 45 years of service in calendar year 2002. These employees will receive invitations with a request to RSVP. In addition, employees celebrating five, 10, and 15 year anniversaries in calendar year 2002 will be honored with teas held in their departments throughout the month of September.

The next Service Awards recognition ceremonies will take place in spring 2004 for employees celebrating milestone years in calendar year 2003.