Grange Home for the Elderly:

We are holding the Summer 2009 Semester Luncheon with the residents.

When: Saturday, June 27
11:30am – 1:30 pm
Meet at the front gates 11:15am
This will be a potluck event
Bring anything that you would like to share: music/food/
/games/ high spirits and enthusiasm!!!

Pls email Ria or Earl if you will be attending.

PHR Facebook:

We now have a Ross PHR facebook group. This would be a great and easy way for us all to exchange ideas and comment on how we can improve PHR!

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Summer 2009 Semester! Here are the upcoming activities for the International Committee:

Medical education and health care in Cuba Wed July 8th
USNS Comfort meeting July Fri 10
Coffee Talk and potluck July Wed 15

**Locations to be annouced**

Dates are tentative – please email KatherineKosive@rossmed.edu.dm for more information.

Check out more pics from our trip to The Grange: “Carnival Celebration and mini vitals check”!!!

The Grange home for the elderly event has a date change: Sunday, Feb. 22nd NOT the 24th. Sorry about that. Hope to see you all there!!

Here’s the semester line-up so far:

The Call center and Library Tutoring have begun…Please check the website for specific details. Contact Saurabh Arya if you are interested in tutoring at the call center (event is twice a week during the week) and you can contact Sukhdeep Kaur or Harsha Chandnani if you would like to tutor at the Portsmoth Library (event is every Saturday). The Call Canter and the Library Tutoring visits occur every week- rain or shine; so if you make a commitment, please come out!

The Grange (home for the elderly)- we will be having a carnival/health clinic at the Grange on Feb. 24th which is a Sunday- this is located just few minutes past Portsmouth and transportation will be provided- playing games with the resident, chatting, and eating food are the activities that are on the menu. It will be great opportunity to relax, bring your clinical side out by interviewing and taking blood pressure…sounds like fun! if you are interested, please contact Ria Parcellano or Sarah Assem.

International/Coffee Talk- the International division of PHR will be coming together with the Coffee Talk division to show the movie “Born into Brothels” it will be shown in Tuesday of next week (Feb 17th) in room 2B at 7pm. we will be having a discussion after the film, as well as a guest speaker! This is a great film (has received excellent reviews and International awards). Popcorn and juice will be served!! Please contact Sukhdeep Kaur or KatyaKosiv@yahoo.com with any questions.

We will have a game booth at the culture show/carnival and a fundraiser for the Kimberly Fund. PHR tshirts will also be sold at the booth if you are interested. Please stop by to have some fun with us and do charity work at the same time as all proceeds will go to Dario Martinez and his chemotherapy treatment!

Health Clinic with Neuroscience- PHR will be taking part in this semesters health clinic at Roseau, hosted by Neuroscience Society (this is very much appreciated). They are kind enough to allow us to represent ourselves- this is an excellent opportunity for all the semesters. The more experience you get now, the easier the practicals will get during the 3rd and 4th semesters (short term ) as well as interacting with patients during rotations. We will be taking 8 members on March 14th (Saturday and we will have shifts). This is first come, first serve…So if you are interested, please contact Sukhdeep Kaur.

We will be getting new shirts for PHR this semester in the upcoming 2 weeks and they will be sold by the Shacks ATM area. All proceeds will go to the Kimberly Fund. Look out for this!!!

These are just a couple of events that are coming up soon so look out for them. Hope will keep you guys posted with our other activities or any changes to these events!

ATTENTION: Last meeting of the year!!

Our Farewell/ closing meeting will be:

Friday at 12pm on the Subway deck

–> Discussion of next years events
–> New position induction

If you are interesting in taking on a project or position with PHR PLEASE COME.

**Don’t forget:

Kimberly Fund awardee ceremoney

12pm on Second Floor Balcony of the Physio/ ICM departments TOMORROW, Wed. Dec.3!!
See you all there…

Award presentation ceremony: Wed, Dec 3rd at noon on the balcony above CR6.
The national media, the dean, and certain faculty members will all be there.
This is the time for PHR to shine.

EVERYONE

is welcome to come to the ceremony!
**If you would like to participate in the ceremony, please let us know.**
Other clubs will also be there to present their awards to their sponsored patients as well.

Patrick Breedy Total Award: $5000

Patrick will now be able to go to St. Lucia to get his much needed shunt put in. He is currently at PMH right now getting dialysis through his neck. This procedure will allow Patrick to go back to a more normal lifestyle and significantly improve his quality of life. Both him and his mother are very appreciative that we are able to help him, especially since he’s been trying to get this procedure done for the past few months with no luck.

Shana Paul Total Award $5000

Shana has just been recently released from PMH. She was admitted last week for bouts of unconsciousness. She currently has a debt to PMH of over $7000 EC. The $5000 will go towards Shana’s next semester’s worth of dialysis treatment costs and medications (which she is currently NOT taking bc she cannot afford them). The difference will be used by Dr Sharma to negotiate with the Minister to get Shana’s debt completely resolved with PMH. Shana wanted us to personally thank you (PHR!!!) for helping her. She is very very grateful.

Coffee Talk details:

Movie: “SOUTHERN COMFORT”
When: Thurs. 20 Nov 2008 @ 7:00pm
Where: Classroom 2B
**FREE popcorn and juice**

Summary: A 90-minute feature-length documentary about the life of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female to male transsexual who lives in the back hills of Georgia. “A hillbilly and proud of it,” he cuts a striking figure: sharp-tongued, bearded, tobacco pipe in hand. Robert passes so well as a male that the local Klu Klux Klan tried to recruit him to become a member.

Though his home is nestled among tranquil hills dotted with hay bales, Robert confronts a world as hostile to him as if he were an African American in the ante-bellum South. He was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, then turned away by more than two dozen doctors who feared that taking on a transgendered patient might harm their practice.

SOUTHERN COMFORT follows the final year of Robert Eads’ life. Beginning in spring, he falls deeply in love with Lola, a male-to-female. That summer, his mother and father drive ten hours to visit their “lost daughter,” a trip they know may be their last. His final dream is to make it to the Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta, the nation’s preeminent transgender gathering. Beating the odds, he addresses a crowd of 500 and takes Lola to “The prom that never was.”

The voices in SOUTHERN COMFORT are not only rarely heard, but also are commonly thought to be non-existent. A rare blend of humor, romance, and tragedy, SOUTHERN COMFORT is the first non-fiction film to intimately tell a trans-to-trans love story, set against a disturbing tale of gender bias as it unfolds before the camera.”

See you all there… Bring your friends!

“Would you treat a transgendered person?”

Movie: Southern Comfort
When: Thurs. 20 Nov 2008 @ 7:00pm
Where: Classroom 2B

FREE popcorn and juice will be provided!

Please, check out the recently uploaded Grange pics…from our trip over the weekend.

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