University of Colorado Hospital to commemorate perinatal loss
To honor and remember infants who have died before, during or after birth,
a special service will be held at University of Colorado Hospital for
grieving parents and their families and friends. Each spring, the hospital
holds a perinatal loss memorial service to assist parents who are in mourning
and to help affirm their ongoing lives despite their losses.
Organizers believe the service helps create a positive and supportive
atmosphere for those who have lost infants in recent years.
This year’s service will take place at 1:30 p.m., June 3, in the CU
School of Nursing auditorium at 4200 E. Ninth Ave., on the south side of
the street near the hospital bridge.
A brief reception will follow the commemorative service, which is being
sponsored by the Perinatal Loss Memorial Committee and the Division of Child
Psychiatry. For more information, contact Spiritual Care Services at (303)
372-8540.
Leadership Book Group
The HSC Faculty Women’s Committee, Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee
and the Office of Diversity would like to invite the campus community
to join a new Leadership Book Group.
This group is being created to build collegiality
and to specifically focus on developing leadership potential in individuals
from underrepresented groups (e.g., women, minorities, those with disabilities,
and members of the GLBT community). We would like to stress, however, that
this program is open to anyone who would like to participate. Participants
will read and discuss books on leadership and professional development.
Carol Rumack, MD, will lead the book discussion.
The first book group meeting will be on June 6, on the Ninth Avenue campus,
in the Humphrey’s Lounge at 5:00 pm. RSVP to Vicky Saulsberry at 303-315-8558
or e-mail at Vicky.Saulsberry@uchsc.edu, to ensure that the room will accommodate
all attendees.
The book selected for the inaugural meeting is Tempered Radicals: How
People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work by Debra E Meyerson. The
Health Science Center campus bookstore has copies available for purchase.
If you cannot read the entire book, focus on chapters 1 (defines what
a tempered radical is), 5 (includes some helpful suggestions on reframing
and negotiating) and 8 (talks about some of the issues to be faced by people
taking this approach).
June community events at the
University of Colorado Cancer Center
Please see the events listed below for community calendar postings offered
through the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
Thursday, June 1
Lung Cancer Support Group
Time: 5-7 p.m.
Place: UCH Anschutz Cancer Pavilion, room 3052
Who: Patients, family members, caregivers
Contact: The Cancer Resource Center, 720-848-0268
Wednesday, June 7
Brain Tumor Support Group
Topic: Nutrition and Brain Cancer
Speaker: Colleen Gill, MS, RD
Time: 5-7 p.m.
Place: UCH Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion, room 2005
Who: Patients, family members, caregivers
Contact: The Cancer Resource Center, 720-848-0268
Thursday, June 8
Kidney Cancer Patient and Family Information and
Support Group
Topic: Decision Making
Speaker: Harri Brackett, RN, MS, OCN
Time: 6-7:30 p.m.
Place: UCH Anschutz Cancer Pavilion, room 3052
Who: Patients, family members, caregivers
Contact: The Cancer Resource Center, 720-848-0268
Thursday, June 15
Lung Cancer Support Group
Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Place: UCH Anschutz Cancer Pavilion, room 3052
Who: Patients, family members, caregivers
Contact: The Cancer Resource Center, 720-848-0268
Cancer Survivorship Celebration Event
“A Celebration of Hope”
Time: 6-7:30 p.m.
Place: UCH Anschutz Cancer Pavilion lobby
Who: Patients, family members, caregivers
Contact: Alison Faust, 720-848-0395
Tuesday, June 20
US TOO! Prostate Cancer Support Group
Time: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Place: UCH Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute,
room 3007
Contact: Richard Donlan, 303-794-0891
Thursday, June 22
Ask the Doctor about Innovations in Lymphoma
Treatment
Speaker: Dr. Han Myint
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Place: UCH Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute,
room 3007
Contact/To Register: call the Lymphoma Research
Foundation, 1-800-500-9976 or e-mail mspellman@lymphoma.org
Tuesday, June 27
Nutrition and Cancer Classes
Topic: Heart Healthy Eating.
Speaker: Colleen Gill, MS, RD, dietitian specializing in
Cancer
Time: 6-7:30 p.m.
Place: UCH Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute,
room 3007
Who: Community members, patients, family members
Contact: The Cancer Resource Center, 720-848-0268
For more information on cancer, support, resources, and events please visit the
Cancer Resource Center in Room 2015 at the Anschutz Cancer Pavilion or call 720-848-0268.
HSC at the Denver Zoo
The Chancellor's Campus Life Committee presents HSC at the Denver Zoo on Saturday,
June 24. Tickets will be $10 and will include zoo admission and lunch. Watch
e-mail for the announcement of ticket sales.
Tickets will be sold at:
UCH Gift Shop (9th Ave),
HSC Bookstore,
Public Service Credit Union offices at Eighth Ave. and Colorado Blvd. and at
Fitzsimons
Lawrence Street Center
Also, please visit our calendar on the Web at www.ucc
Saturday night at the movies
Enjoy eight Saturday nights of free outdoor fun in original downtown
Aurora’s Fletcher Plaza with popular, family-friendly films on the
big screen.
The 2006 Flicks on the ‘FAX film series will run June 17 through
Aug. 12. Movies begin at sunset on a customized outdoor movie screen.
Bring a
blanket or lawn chair and get there early to get the best seat on the
plaza. Pre-show activities range from craft projects to trivia games.
Refreshments
will be sold on site.
Visitors are not permitted to bring alcohol or dogs
to the event.
The 2006 Flicks on the ‘FAX film series schedule:
• June 17 – Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG)
• June 24 – Charlie and Chocolate Factory (PG)
• July 8 – Legend of Zorro (PG)
• July 15 – Madagascar (PG)
• July 22 – Yours, Mine and Ours (PG)
• July 29 – Zathura (PG)
• Aug. 5 – Coach Carter (PG-13)
• Aug. 12 – King Kong (PG-13)
Fletcher Plaza is located adjacent to the martin Luther King, Jr. Library/Municipal
Services Center, 9898 E. Colfax Ave. at Elmira Street. Flicks on the ‘FAX
is sponsored by the Aurora Credit Union Alliance. For more information,
call the Flicks on the ‘FAX
hotline at 303-326-8804 or visit www.auroragov.org/flicks.
Take a walk on the art side
Sneak a peak at Aurora’s emerging art scene at the 2006 Summer Art
Walk in Original Aurora.
The event will be held from 5-8.30 p.m., June 23, and from noon to 5
p.m. June 24.
Dubbed the East End Arts District due to its location on East Colfax,
the more than 20 participating galleries, working studios and arts-related
venues will be open to the public for live performances, public receptions
and open houses during these special hours to showcase a variety of art
and artists.
The galleries and studios feature pottery and painting, jewelry and sculpture,
performing and culinary arts, print and furniture making, and more. Participants
include Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA), East End Applied Arts, Emmett
Fine Furniture, Florence Griffith Pottery Studio, The Fox Arts Center,
The Other Side Arts (TOSA), Red Delicious Press, and newcomers Ad Lopez
Originals,
The Dancer’s Advantage, Dangerous Pottery, Elias Elias Gallery, and
The Mud Hut.
Public art is also on view throughout the district in five locations
including Uptown: A Place for Art and Community, a five-panel mural created
by Denver artist Jason Needham and 40 DAVA youths that depicts a colorful
community street scene. This public art project is one of five significant
public arts projects totaling $200,000 to be installed by summer 2006 in
the East End Arts District.
You can see this and the other artworks at www.auroragov.org/artinpublicplaces.
The East End Arts District, a 16-block area, is located along the historic
commercial corridor from Clinton to Geneva streets on East Colfax Avenue.
A map of the art walk route may be downloaded at www.auroragov.org/artwalk .
Volunteers will be posted along the route to direct visitors to the various
locations, and free pedi-cabs will be available for those who cannot or
do not wish to walk among the sites.
The event is sponsored in part by the Community College of Aurora’s
Arts and Humanities Department.
To find out more, call 720-203-3575 or visit www.auroragov.org/artwalk.
June 28 is Bike to Work Day
On Wednesday, June 28, thousands of people will leave their cars at home
and take two wheels to work. We're hoping that plenty of UCD/UCH employees
will be among those taking part in Bike to Work Day, an annual event that
educates and excites people about commuting by bicycle.
Why bike to work? It's a great way to get out of traffic, save gas, make
time to exercise and enjoy fresh air. Denver has been rated as one of the
nation's best places to bike by the American League of Bicyclists, and one
of the most congested cities by the Texas Transportation Institute, so bicycle
commuting just makes sense.
Bike to Work Day is a perfect event for novice bicycle commuters, as
plenty of participation means that groups are more likely able to ride together,
and extra support is available for planning routes, tips on best commuting
practices and road safety.
You can also stop by one of more than 100 bike stops that morning to
catch your breath and get some free breakfast.
Register online at http://www.drcog.org/btwd2006/. Click on the link
to REGISTER and choose UCD/UCH as your employer, or call 303-458-POOL
(7665) to register.
For more information, contact Jackie Brinkman and jackie.brinkman@uchsc.edu or call 303-724-1525.
Feedback on tenure report welcome
On March 24, 2005, the University of Colorado Board of Regents approved
a joint resolution from the president with the support of the faculty
to "conduct
a system-wide review of the processes for awarding and maintaining tenure,
including the processes for awarding tenure at the time of initial appointment
and after a probationary period as well as the processes for post-tenure
review."
Since then, the Advisory Committee on Tenure-Related Processes has spent
more than a year developing and implementing a comprehensive study of
the tenure system. General Howell Estes, III, recently presented his
independent report to the committee.
To view the independent report, go to http://wwwcu.edu/tenurereview/independentreport.html.
Feedback is encouraged.
Fitzsimons 9-hole golf league
The Fitzsimons 9-hole golf league is open to all City of Aurora and Fitzsimons
campus employees and students. The league runs Tuesdays from 3-6 p.m .,
through August 29. Cost is $8 for social play (no prizes) and $10 competitive
play (prizes). Carts are an additional $5.75 per rider, per 9 holes.
Golfers can sign up weekly and can play with their own group or be paired
with others. There will be different formats each week and Cimarron Grill
will offer food and drink specials.
For more information or to sign up, call the Fitzsimons Golf Shop at
303-364-8125. A sign-up sheet is available at the Golf Shop each week for
the following week.
Self Defense program offered through University Police
The University of Colorado Denver Police Department is
again offering it's "R.A.D. Systems" basic self-defense program
for women.
Session dates are June 10th and 11th, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and
will be held in Humphreys Lounge on the Health Sciences Center’s
Ninth Avenue campus.
Participants must be able to attend the full 16 hours.
Space in the class is limited, and registration is by payment only.
Registration deadline is June 2nd at 2 p.m. Cost for the class is as
follows:
-Students (anywhere, student ID required) $20.00
-UCD and UCH affiliates (ID required) $25.00
-General Public $30.00
For more information or to remit payment for registration, call Officer Lynn
Whitten at 303-724-0739, or e-mail Lynn.Whitten@UCHSC.edu.
A detailed course description can be found at http://www.uchsc.edu/police/RAD.htm.
Blood donations needed
Spring has sprung and it’s time to roll up your sleeves and donate
blood.
The need for blood is increasing but supplies have been decreasing.
Please consider donating blood to the patients of University of Colorado Hospital.
There are opportunities for whole blood donation and platelet donation on both
campuses. The whole blood donation takes about 30 minutes and saves two lives;
the platelet donation takes about 1 – 1 1⁄2 hours and can save up
to four lives.
Donor Center Locations:
•
9th Avenue and Colorado – basement of Critical Care Tower, room CC027,
open Monday – Thursday. Call 303-372-0494 for information.
• Fitzsimons – Cancer Pavilion, 2nd floor, room 2005, open
Tuesday – Thursday.
Call 720-848-1230 for information. (Starting May 8, the Fitzsimons donor center
will be open Monday – Thursday)
Please contact either donor center by phone or via email at donorcenter@uch.edu
to schedule an appointment to donate blood and save lives.
Yoga instructor program one of a kind
James Ford knew he was on to something about seven years ago, when the popular
yoga classes offered by his department at the Community College of Aurora (CCA)
continued to draw back past students seeking more training in the Eastern exercise.
With so much demand for the upper level yoga classes, Ford, the chair of the
school’s Mind and Body Health department, created a program specifically
designed to train and create yoga instructors.
Six graduating classes and more than a hundred new, nationally certified yoga
instructors later, CCA is still the only public school in the state and one of
the few in the country to offer a yoga instructor program.
The unique CCA yoga instructor program requires 225 classroom and field hours
for completion, and students typically complete their studies during the nine-month
program which goes from August to May. The program focuses on the wide-encompassing
soft classical Hatha yoga style, and its graduates meet the requirements of the
nation’s top yoga certification organizations.
There are several other private companies in the metro area offering yoga instruction
certification, but because CCA is a college receiving state funds, the cost of
its 10-credit program – about $850 – is about a third of the private
programs.
For information about CCA’s soft classical Hatha yoga instructor program,
call Ford at 303-340-7125.
Magazines
needed
Last year the volunteers at University of Colorado Hospital distributed
more than 16,000 donated magazines throughout the hospital and clinics
for patients and visitors to read. Because of the ongoing demand,
there is a
constant need of magazines that are less than six months old.
Please drop off your donations of magazines to the University of
Colorado Hospital, 12605 E. 16th Ave. If you have any questions,
please contact
the Volunteer Services CARE Team at 303-372-8448 or volunteer@uch.edu.
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