Personal Branding Workshop (Re-Scheduled)

By Amcdonald. Published on April 13, 2012 in Continuing Education and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

SLA Philadelphia has re-scheduled it’s Personal Branding Workshop for April 30th, 2012 from 5 to 7:30 pm. Registration is at 5 pm. Sandwiches and beverages will be provided between 5 and 5:30. The workshop will be held at the Hagerty Library, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA.

In the seminar, you will discover and express your personal brand story. Gerry Lantz, principal of STORIES THAT WORK will lead the highly interactive workshop. You will be guided through a condensed version of Gerry’s four-step personal branding process:

  • A Brand Audit/Inventory
  • Brand Values Identification (6 in total)
  • Success Stories to support those brand values
  • Application of your Brand to all outreach materials

Bring a laptop if possible.

Cost: Members – $15; Non-members – $25; In-betweens and Retired – $5 

Students  – Thanks to SLA Philadelphia’s Knower Scholarship fund, Drexel iSchool students have a portion of the on-site seats reserved for them on a complimentary basis.

Webinar -  No cost.

Physicians and Psychologists Upset by Gag Law on Fracking Chemicals

By Julia Lewis. Published on April 6, 2012 in Government Relations. 0 Comments

The Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, requires companies to provide the names of chemicals and gases used in fracking, to a state-maintained registry. An added legislative conference provision of HB1950 CL58 included a gag order for health professionals,  “The vendor, service provider or operator may request, and the health professional shall provide upon request, a written statement of need and a confidentiality agreement from the health professional as soon as circumstances permit, in conformance with regulations promulgated under this chapter.”

In a nut shell, physicians can receive information for patients suspected of illness from fracking chemicals, but are gagged from letting those patients know the cause of their illness.

To read more about this, take a look at these articles.

Walter Brasch: Pennsylvania Fracking Law Gags Physicians

Kate Sheppard: For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals

 

 

Annual Meeting & Dinner Reception – online reservations available now!

By LydiaWitman. Published on April 5, 2012 in Events and General News. 0 Comments

Online reservations are now closed; contact Lydia Witman to RSVP (see contact info below).

MLA-Phil’s 2012 Annual Meeting and Dinner Reception will take place on Tuesday, May 1, at the historic Racquet Club of Philadelphia (16th street between Locust and Walnut). Registration and Cocktails begin at 4:00pm.

Our guest speaker for the evening will be Garret FitzGerald, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of Penn’s Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics. Read more about the Institute at www.itmat.upenn.edu , and see Dr. FitzGerald’s biography and key publications at www.itmat.upenn.edu/faculty_fitzgerald.shtml .

Dr FitzGerald’s talk for the evening is titled, “Drugs, Money, and a Night to Remember: Why I Should Care About Translational Medicine.”

We will be accepting donations of books or cash/checks for a local early literacy program! Read more about Reach Out And Read and the Jeff Reads project here.

WHERE: The Racquet Club of Philadelphia, 215 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 http://www.rcop.com/

WHEN: Tuesday, May 1, 4:30 – 8:30pm

4:00 Registration & Cocktails
4:30 Business Meeting
5:30 Guest Speaker – Dr. Garret FitzGerald
6:30 Dinner (seated, buffet)

Please indicate any specific dietary restrictions on your reservation form. The menu for the evening will include several different salads, nuts and fruit, chicken, salmon, prime rib, wild rice, vegetables, and dessert.

COST:
$46 MLA-Phil chapter members
$56 Non-members
$36 Students / Retirees / Between Jobs

The Racquet Club is on 16th street between Walnut and Locust, on the east side of the street. It is easily accessible by public transit (both SEPTA and PATCO), and parking is available at 2 lots across from the Club, on Chancellor street (the 1600 block of Chancellor Street: Standard Parking or Patriot Parking); reduced parking rates are available — bring your parking ticket to the Club and pay at the front desk to receive the discount.

Hoping to see all of you on May 1,

-Lydia

Lydia Witman
Medical Library Association – Philadelphia Regional Chapter, Programming Chair 2011-2012

Lydia Witman, MLIS
Clinical Librarian
Pennsylvania Hospital
800 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Lydia.Witman@uphs.upenn.edu
Phone: 215-829-3596 | Pager: 215-422-0467
Penn Medicine

Christine Chastain-Warheit’s Retirement

By Gary. Published on March 30, 2012 in Member News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Christine Chastain-Warheit, AHIP, retired March 30, 2012 from her twenty-five year position as Director, Medical Libraries, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE. Christine has a thirty-seven year career as a librarian, serving as a school librarian in North Carolina for six years just after receiving her master’s degree in library science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Following post-master’s coursework in medical librarianship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and benefiting from her undergraduate degree in biological sciences, Christine served as a reference librarian at the NIH campus of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, as well as at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, DC and later as a reference librarian at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Read more» » »

Short Term Solutions For Grant Awards At NIH

By Julia Lewis. Published on March 30, 2012 in General News and Government Relations. 0 Comments Tags: .

NIH would like to support less-experienced researchers by offering some short term solutions such as shortening it’s grant-application forms and setting aside spaces for younger researchers. NIH will also look more closely at those funded grants that already achieved the $1.5 million mark. If the automatic budget cuts, by Congress, take effect in January they could lose up to 8% of their budget.

For more information read the Chronicle article by Paul Basken, Squeezed by Congress, HIH Hesitates to Limit big-Dollar Grant Recipients March 28, 2012