New contacts for health advocacy

Dear Brown Health Advocates,

As a health advocate and Brown alum ('67) I excited and proud that you are organizing and activating health advocacy at Brown. I am now working with the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia (this fall my colleague there, Sayantani DasGupta '92 and I published a co-edited book of women's illness narratives that includes sections on narratives of advocacy), with Medicare Rights Center, and as advisor to a women's health reform coalition (Raising Women's Voices for the Healthcare We Need), all of which would be of interest to health advocates at Brown.

Marsha Hurst, Ph.D.

www.marshahurst.com

Brown University Assistive Technology Fair

PHR, AMSA, and the Bionic Man elective present...

Part 4 of the Disability Awareness Series:

Brown's 1st Assistive Technology Fair

Wednesday, Feb. 13
7-8:30 pm
Crystal Room in Alumnae Hall
194 Meeting St.

*Dinner from Twist on Angell, as well as desserts and warm beverages from Olga's will be served.

Feel free to stop by anytime between 7 and 8:30 pm for as long as you would like. This event will be in a vendor-exhibit format, in which attendees will circulate around a room of display tables.

Featuring:
TechACCESS of RI
The Assistive Technology Lab at URI
Prentke Romich Company (PRC)
Afferent Corporation
Brown's Disability Support Services (DSS)
"Toys and Technologies for Rehabilitation" Collaboration

Black History Month at Brown Med

Happy Black History Month! In celebration, SNMA is sponsoring a lunchtime lecture series. This is an opportunity to explore intricacies of culture and race, an intersection that will no doubt play a role in all of our lives as physicians (and as people).

We are excited and looking forward to a great series. All events are from 12-12:50pm and lunch is provided.

Thursday, Feb 7th: Conceptualizing Persisting Politics of Race-Mr. Marco McWilliams (BMC 202)

Monday, Feb 11th: Social Policy as Health Policy-Dr. Dannie Ritchie (Eddy/BMC 291)

Monday Feb 18th: Crossing Barriers: Blacks and Latin America-Prof. Anani Dzidzienyo (BMC 202)

Friday Feb 22nd: The New Struggle: Emancipation through Education-Prof. Marion Orr

Any questions? feel free to contact brown@snma.org.

THANKS!

-SNMA

Make-A-Wish Foundation Benefit Event

Hi all - just wanted to let you know about an upcoming event for the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Providence. Its a great organization, and their fundraisers are a lot of fun :)

March 8, 2008
If You Had One Wish Dinner & Dance
Knights of Columbus, Providence RI
Dinner and dancing to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Rhode Island. Tickets $20.00
For more information, call Jeanine Iannucci (401) 578-7091

Peace,
annie thacker
Anne_Thacker@brown.edu