Hadassah International eBulletin - June 2010
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Hadassah Medical News (5 stories): Director of Bone Marrow Transplantation at Hadassah Helps Open Department in India
Editors:
Lonye Rasch, Communications Chair; Patricia Levinson, Communications Co-Chair; Karen Lustig, Communications Team
Tamar Davis, Director of Operations; Rebecca Rafelson, Development & Marketing Associate
Team email: communications@hadassah.org
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Prof. Reuven Or, Director of Hadassah's Bone
Marrow Transplantation Department (left) being
interviewed by IsraCast's David Essing, following
his return from India |
Hadassah Medical Center Bone Marrow Transplantation Expert Prof. Reuven Or recently helped the Ruby Hall Clinic in Pune, India to open a Bone Marrow Transplantation Department.
The collaboration of Hadassah's Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center with a dedicated Palestinian health care team has enabled Hadassah to help establish a true CF Center in Gaza.
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Prof. Tamar Peretz, Director
of Sharett |
Among the innovative explorations in cancer treatment at the Hadassah Medical Center's Sharett Institute of Oncology are a vaccine which boosts a patient's immune system response to battle recurrence of cancer; identifying tailored therapies for patients based on their genetic background; determining why only some mothers and some daughters who carry the BRCA gene get breast cancer and at different stages of their lives; and how to best support Holocaust survivors who now face cancer.
"I have so many good things to say about Hadassah," says Hannah, mother of a newborn who, though missing one of the chambers of his heart, was saved by cardiac specialists at the Hadassah Medical Center. "The medical care the baby received was outstanding," she says, "but it was the human touch that made it so special. I cannot imagine having a better team."
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Dr. Hadar Merhav/courtesy of
Hadassah Medical Organization |
The patient was 30 years old and he was dying. His liver--scarred beyond repair by cirrhosis that followed a hepatitis B infection 18 years earlier--was scarcely functioning.
The Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower: Rising Towards the Sky—On Time; On Budget
The entrance level of the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower |
Ø The magnitude: one million square feet; 19 stories, including five underground floors
Ø The impact: a beautiful, comfortable inpatient physical facility to match the quality of clinical care and groundbreaking research.
Ø The legacy: a far-reaching gift to the people of Jerusalem and people from all around the world, who come to Hadassah for the brilliance and kindness of its health care professionals.
It's about Healing. It's about Compassion. It's about Life.
The Pediatric Renovation: Hadassah International Leaders Witness the "Before" and "After"
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The beginnings of the four-room Pediatric (post-op) Surgery Unit |
Hadassah International unit leaders just returned from Israel where they viewed the crowded conditions of the pre-renovation Pediatric Department B; the construction site of the new Pediatric Department B; and the airy, bright, colorful, welcoming newly renovated Pediatric Department A. Hadassah International has raised over $900,000 towards our $1.5 million commitment for this renovation. Help us raise the remainder!
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Left to Right: Hadassah President Nancy Falchuk;
Komen Global Ambassador Hadassah Lieberman; Komen
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ambassador
Nancy G. Brinker; and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. |
In April, Hadassah, the City of Jerusalem, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world's largest breast cancer organization, established a strategic partnership to advance global efforts to eradicate breast cancer. Israel will host the first Susan G. Komen Israel Race for the Cure®, around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, and a week of scholarly events which will bring together health advocates and scientists from leading breast cancer groups, including Breakthrough Breast Cancer, United Kingdom, and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
During an April Latin American Israel Bonds Mission to Israel, delegates visited the Hadassah Medical Center and Hadassah Mexico Board Member Renee Harari presented a statuette of Israeli Former Prime Minister Golda Meir to Hadassah Medical Center Director General Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef.
A 1994-95 graduate of the International Master of Public Health (IMPH) Program of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine has been appointed Permanent Secretary of Health in her home country, Fiji.
With the goal of emulating Israel's public health system as they revamp their country's approach to public health, physicians from the Uruguayan Medical Association visited the Hadassah Medical Center in May.
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Left to right: Antoine Garreau, President of Hadassah Switzerland's Sarah Wetsman
Davidson Tower Committee and co-organizer of the event; Guest Speaker Prof. Azaria Rein,
head of Pediatric Cardiology, Hadassah Medical Center; Monique Cohen-Amon, Hadassah
Switzerland Event co-organizer; Hadassah International President Helaine Ohayon; and
Ellen Frick-Delman, President, Hadassah Switzerland and Hadassah International
Liaison to Europe. |
The Four Seasons Hotel des Berges, along Lake Leman in Geneva, was the venue for an elegant, intimate, inspiring dinner for 30 community leaders and donors, hosted by Hadassah Switzerland, sponsored by Banque Gutzwiller et Cie SA, and featuring Prof. Azaria Rein, head of Pediatric Cardiology at the Hadassah Medical Center.
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Barrister Lee Goffin (left) with her mother, the late Mary
Stuchbery, a founder of Hadassah New Zealand, during a
tour in Israel. |
Hadassah New Zealand hosted an evening in May featuring an Auckland barrister, who had attended an Israel Law Center Conference in Israel and received an insider's look at how the country's legal system handles terrorist activity.
Hadassah Switzerland-Zurich hosted the first of a series of social evenings at the Hotel Eden au Lac along the Lake of Zurich in April, featuring the quartet of Rolf Lyssy, renowned Jazz Drummer, Swiss Film Director, and Hadassah Switzerland Honorary Board Member.
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Hadassah Medical Center Director
General Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef (left) met
Isaac Chertorivsky in February 2009 on a
trip to Mexico aimed at forging new
friendships for Hadassah. |
Hadassah Mexico supporters Isaac and Sara Chertorivsky, along with their son, Salomon Chertorivsky-Woldenberg, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters toured Hadassah Medical Center in April and dialogued with Hadassah Director General Prof. Shlomo-Mor Yosef about the structure of the Israeli health system.
Dr. Esti Galili, Director of the
Hadassah Medical Center's Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department and its Jerusalem
Crisis Intervention Center |
As chief support of the Hadassah Medical Center's Jerusalem Crisis Intervention Center (JCIC), Hadassah Australia welcomed Dr. Esti Galili, JCIC Director and head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Hadassah, to Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth for one-on-one and small-group meetings with donors and potential contributors.
People came from Marseilles, Toulon, Cannes, and Nice for a performance of Troupe du Theatre de la Mémoire, entitled "Fan des 60's," organized by Hadassah Nice at the Palais des Congrès of Saint-Raphael.
To thank its major donors and sponsors, Hadassah Germany invited them to a dinner at the designer Hotel Restaurant Ritzi in Munich.
A two-day medical seminar on trauma emergencies, organized by Hadassah Panama, featuring Hadassah Medical Center trauma specialists, and sponsored by local companies and foundations, marked the third stage of Hadassah Panama's ongoing efforts to help Hospital Santo Tomás, Panama's largest public hospital, improve its emergency care to trauma patients.
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Sarita Cohen, founding member of Hadassah Panama (left)
and Sherry Altura, Hadassah International Liasion to Latin
America (right), provided information about the Sarah
Wetsman Davidson Tower. |
Under the watchword of "Prevention Begins with Awareness," Hadassah Panama sponsored a "Hadassah Health Night" to promote health consciousness in the Panamanian community.
Over 250 men and women of all ages experienced an "express check-up," received medical information from Hadassah Medical Center and local physicians, and were treated to healthy snacks. The express check-up, provided by local sponsors, included tests to measure blood pressure, Body Mass Index (BMI), vision, flexibility, and sugar levels.
A video and graphic displays showcased Hadassah medical breakthroughs and the rising of the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower, Hadassah's new inpatient facility. Proceeds from the event were earmarked for the Tower project.
Hadassah Panama organizers report that Hadassah's new International logo, featured throughout the event on posters, folders, and tote bags, as well as on doctors' coats, was highly praised by all.
At the presentation, from left to right: Tamar Simon,
Leora Schanfield, Tamar Goldman, Nehama Grenimann
Bauch, and Shira Furst (the Fundraising Gala Team),
standing in front of the Faraway Places art pieces. |
This past spring, Young Hadassah Israel's Faraway Places Project came to fruition as supporters officially presented 10 original works of art to Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem to mount in its Intensive Care Unit as a beautiful diversion for patients from the painful realities of their illness.
Drawn together by their common drive to combat cancer, 300 young singles joined Young Hadassah France for a night of music, entertainment, and more.
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