Philadelphia Regional Chapter / Medical Library Association
The Chapter’s 2010 Annual Meeting was held at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, as it was last year. Members and guests were able to join friends and colleagues to learn about Chapter activities and recognize leadership in and contributions to medical librarianship. Photos from the event are available on the Chapter’s flickr® page: <http://www.flickr.com/groups/363552@N22/>. Please visit. Join the group, and help us tag the photos to identify everyone!
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The following individuals were recognized at our Annual Meeting for their achievements, their potential for achievement, and their service to the Chapter:
Winner of the Chapter Achievement Award: Daniel Gustavo Kipnis.
Dan Kipnis and his wife
The Chapter Achievement Award is given to an individual who has made significant contributions to the Chapter and to the field. This is the Chapter’s highest award and is reserved for outstanding individuals. Dan has been a Chapter member since 2001 and served on the Board as a Committee Chair and Chapter Officer from 2002 thru 2007. He is active in MLA on the national level, served on and chaired the Continuing Education Committee for an extended term, and was appointed National Program Committee liaison for the 2009 Chicago meeting. Read more» » »
Andrea Kenyon, who last year was the Chair Elect/Program Committee Chair, steps up to serve as Chapter chair this year. Gary Kaplan has been elected Chair Elect/Program Committee Chair. Stepping down from the Chair position (or maybe she’s rising from the Chair?), Cynthia McClellan is taking a new seat as our Chapter’s Nominating Committee Chair/Parliamentarian, as Etheldra Templeton retires from that post. Rounding out the Executive Committee are Mitzi Killeen, who assumes the Treasurer duties from Linda Katz; and Priscilla Stephenson, who assumes the Secretary’s duties from Sheryl Panka-Bryman. (Note: Priscilla is also the new Chief of Library Service at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. She is profiled elsewhere in this issue.)
Another Board member making a move is Linda Katz, assuming AHIP Liaison duties from Esther Dell. As Joan McKenzie, our Archivist of many years, has retired, Annie Brogran, who is the new Librarian at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, is assuming those duties. And since Gary Kaplan is now our Chair-Elect, Crystal Knapp has taken over Webmaster duties.
Returning Board members include By-Laws Committee Chair Lenore Hardy, Chapter Council Representative Anne Seymour, Chapter Council Alternate Nancy Calabretta, Communications Committee Chair Rachel Resnick, Development Committee Chair Christina Daley (finishing the term begun by Ellen Justice), Education & Credentialing Committee Chair Jeanette de Richemond; Government Relations Chair Stephanie Ferretti, and Membership Committee Chair Lydia Witman.
See <http://www.mlaphil.org/wp/15/officers/> for the current board list and contact information.
-RR
At this year’s Annual Business Meeting & Reception, attendees heard from registered nurses Karen Slutsky and Dominic Parone from Cooper University Hospital, who traveled to Haiti with a government team to aid victims of the earthquake last winter. Following the events of 9/11, Nurse Slutsky joined the New Jersey Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT), which functions as part of Federal National Disaster Response Teams. She has responded to many disaster situations since joining NJ-DMAT. The Haiti mission was Nurse Parone’s first deployment since he joined DMAT shortly after Hurricane Katrina. Nurse Slutsky provided general information about responding to disasters, and Nurse Parone spoke about the clinical care they provided during the Haiti mission.
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N.B.: Don’t read this if you are eating.
Before the Annual Meeting and Reception, I had the opportunity to tour the Mütter Museum, which is housed in The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and provides an historically accurate nineteenth century museum experience, exhibiting specimens much as they would be displayed in times past. On the upper level were several exhibitions: of note was the art exhibit “Corporeal Manifestations,” which displayed abstractions of medical conditions and deformities in order to depict how our bodies affect our psyches. Also on that level was an interesting examination of medicine during the Civil War, including images relevant to the Lincoln assassination. While my least favorite exhibit was the one of shrunken heads, I was more interested in other specimens which were embalmed or otherwise preserved. Read more» » »
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