Mark Your Calendar
Save the Date: Oct. 27-28
The Center for Connected Health Annual Symposium
“Who Provides, Who Decides, Who Pays: Consumers, Clinicians & Business Models in the Connected Care Era,” is this year’s symposium theme, Oct. 27-28, at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at HMS. A special reduced rate of $450 is now available for BWH invitees. Use the invitation code Partners when registering to receive this rate. For information and registration, visit www.connected-health.org or contact mmspinale@partners.org
MITSS Hope Award
Nominations Due Sept. 1
Nominations are now being accepted for the inaugural MITSS HOPE Award, which recognizes those who support healing and restoring hope to those affected by adverse medical events. Nominations are due Sept. 1, and the award will be presented at the MITSS annual dinner Nov. 6. Visit www.mitss.org or contact Winnie Tobin at 617-232-0090 for more information.
Quality Rounds
If Rural Tanzania Can Do It, Can We?: The WHO Safe Surgery Checklist
Sept. 9 at noon
Anesthesia Conference Room, CWN-L1
Presented by Atul Gawande, MD, MPH
Physician Assistant Dinner
Oct. 2, 6 – 10 p.m.
Museum of Fine Arts
HMS CME on Patient Safety in Obesity Surgery
Sept. 11 to 13
HMS hosts “Patient Safety in Obesity Surgery,” a comprehensive CME course that will cover each of the task group reports along with topics required to establish Centers of Excellence in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center. Speakers will include HMS faculty as well as guest faculty from government, industry, professional medical societies, and the media.
For more information, call 617.667.5100 or visit www.rmf.harvard.edu/events/index.asp
Discussion on
End of Life Care
Sept. 25, 5:30 p.m.
The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, CRICO/RMF, Beacon Hospice, and the Massachusetts Medical Society invite you to a facilitated discussion where professional caregivers and a patient share their perspectives on a variety of end of life experiences. The event, part of the Schwartz Center’s Speaker Series, is in the Longwood Hall in The Inn at Longwood Medical, 342 Longwood Ave. To RSVP and for more information visit the Mass. Medical Society or call 1-800-843-6356 by Sept. 15.
Orthopedic Update: What the Primary Care Physician, Physical Therapist, and Athletic Trainer need to Know
Oct. 17 – 18, 7 a.m. – 4 p.m.
The Conference Center at Waltham Woods
Hosted by the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. Register at www.cme.hms.harvard.edu/courses/orthopaedicupdate or contact Brenda Surowiec at bsurowiec@partners.org or ext. 2-5655 for more information.
BWH/BWPO Physician
Recognition Dinner
Nov. 8
Intercontinental Hotel, 510 Atlantic Ave.