August 15, 2008 - Seeking Sponsors to Send FFLs to the 2nd Annual FFL Conference

ASF is seeking sponsors to help FFLs participate in this years conference. 

Your gift could help cover the cost of:

• Conference Registration Fee ($25)
• The Actual Cost of Attending the Conference ($300)
• A Lunch Table ($1000)
• Travel Scholarships

If you are interested in becoming a conference sponsor, please contact Mollie Wertlieb, Fellows for Life Coordinator, at mwertlie@bidmc.harvard.edu or 617-667-1529.

August 15, 2008 - 2nd Annual FFL Conference Update

REGISTRATION
Registration for the 2nd Annual Fellows for Life Conference, a day-long conference on October 4, 2008 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA, is now open. The registration fee is $25 for Current Fellows and Fellows for Life and $50 for guests.  This fee will help to cover the cost of the conference.  You can either pay the fee on-line or by check, and will be prompted to do so at the bottom of the registration form.  The deadline for registration is September 19, 2008.

To pay on-line: Please use ASF’s on-line donation page.  Please write "FFL Conference" in the special instructions box.

To pay by check: Send checks made payable to The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship to ASF, 330 Brookline Ave (BR), Boston, MA 02215.  Please note "FFL Conference" on the check.

Additional conference details will be available fall 2008. A member of the staff will follow-up with you in 1-2 weeks regarding your registration and any questions you may have. If you have any urgent questions, please contact Mollie Wertlieb at mwertlie@bidmc.harvard.edu

Click here to register.

HOTEL ROOMS
Hotel rooms are available in ASF''s room block at the Royal Sonesta.  To book a room, please call 617-806-4200, and reference the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Fellows for Life Conference room block.

SCHEDULE
FRIDAY OCTOBER 3, 2008
7pm Networking Cocktail Party
Hosted by 2001-02 Boston Fellow for Life Skye Schulte

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 2008
8am-9am Continental Breakfast and Welcome

9am-9:45am Plenary Speaker: Karen McNeil Miller, President, The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust

10am-12:15pm Breakout Sessions
10am-11am  
Reducing Health Disparities in the underserved Asian and Pacific Islander Community: the Hepatitis B Free Clinic
Presenter: Elizabeth Chao*, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine

Health Literacy/Health Communication
Presenter: James Hyde, MPH, Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine  Tufts University School of Medicine

Leaders in Service
Presenters: Ralph Fuccillo°, President, Oral Health Foundation and The Honorable Mark L. Wolf°, Chief Judge,  U.S. District Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Health Care with Dignity for Women with Disabilities
Presenter: Eijean Wu* MD, MPP Resident Physician, Montefiore Medical Center, New York

11:15am-12:15pm 
Networking in Global Health
Presenter: David Edwards*, MD, MPH, The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Research Physician, South Africa

Language Access and Cultural Sensitivity for Immigrant Domestic Violence Victims
Presenters: Pooja Regmi*, Esq, Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center and Jennifer Deng Pickett, Director of DC Language Access Coalition

Food Security
Presenter: Robert Lawrence°, MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
 
Harm Reduction: What It Is and Why It Works
Presenters: Ken Vail*, MPH, MA, Lead Consultant, Healthy Rhythm, LLC and Mariel Selbovitz, MPH, Syringe Exchange Coordinator, FROST''D

12:15 pm-1pm Lunch and Special Topic Lunch Tables

1pm-1:45pm Plenary Speaker: Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green

2pm-4:15pm Breakout Sessions
2pm-3pm
Current Approaches to Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Approaches in Pediatric Medicine
Presenter: Maria Broderick*, EdD, New England School of Acupuncture

Rolling the Stones Out of Your Way: Strategies for Self-Care
Presenter: Meghan Duff*, PsyD, Behavioral Sciences & Community Studies Program at University of Maine, Machias

An International Health Experience in Guatemala
Presenter: Mark Lepore*, MD, Medical Volunteer Coordinator, Hospitalito Atitlan, Guatemala

Leaders in Service
Presenters: TBD

3:15pm-4:15pm
Fundraising
Presenter: TBD

Healing Emotional Wounds and Memories from Violence as the Basis of Interpersonal Reconciliation in Colombia
Presenter: Ana Diaz*, Consultant, Fundacion para la Reconciliacion, Colombia

Albert Schweitzer
Presenter: Ian Rawson° Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania

Educational Attainment of Institutionalized Girls: Incorporating Gender Specific Treatment
Presenters: Sonia Kennedy*, DePaul University and Camille Quinn*, University of Illinois at  Chicago

4:30pm-5pm Closing Plenary Session

5pm-6pm Reception

*Fellow for Life
°ASF Board Member

July 31, 2008 - Chicago Fellows for Life Leadership by Examply Lecture Series

The Chicago Fellows for Life program has organized a series of "Leadership by Example" lectures, inviting exemplary community leaders from a wide variety of fields to talk about their lives in public service.  Our hope is that audience members will be inspired to become agents of change in their communities.

Our next speaker, Meade Palidofsky, founder and artistic director of Music Theatre Workshop, believes theater has the power to be a life-changing force.  The group writing method she developed allows participants to use playwriting to examine their lives, the choices they make, the roles they play, and their relationships with others in order to recognize and consider other goals and outcomes. 
 
Ms. Palidofsky’s theater work with youth in detention has been featured on HUMANKIND, a national public radio program produced in Boston, and on THIS AMERICAN LIFE, from WBEZ in Chicago.  STICKS AND STONES, a national documentary on successful violence prevention programs, highlighted her musical/discussion program, SOMEONE YOU CAN TRUST.  In 2008, P, B and J Productions plans to release a documentary of her Fabulous Females work at the Illinois Youth Center in Warrenville.

The event will be held at Loyola University Chicago''''''''''''''''s Water Tower campus, 111 E Pearson St., 13th Floor, Chicago, on Tuesday, Aug. 12 starting at 6:00pm.  It is open to the public and free of charge, but reservations are strongly recommended.  Click here to see the event flier.

RSVP to: rsvp@hmprg.org or call 312 372-4292 Ext. 24

July 25, 2008 - East Bay Express Names Bay Area Fellow "Most Promising Grad Student"

From the East Bay Express:

If Chevron won''t clean up the greasy messes it makes, at least UC Berkeley graduate student Thomas Azwell is trying. Busy pursuing his Ph.D in environmental science, policy, and management, Azwell is developing thermophilic composting as an oil-spill remediation technology.  The hope is that such people as the Amazonian Ecuadorians dwelling in Chevron''s abandoned cancerous muck could take environmental cleanup into their own hands. By pooling the powers of bacteria, heat, and, eventually, worms, to break down petroleum waste, the rancid oil can be reintegrated into the earth as clean, nutritious compost. Closer to home, Azwell is coaching students at Concord''s Mt. Diablo High School in growing vegetables, installing solar panels, collecting native plant seeds and restoring habitat on the school property. Azwell also is dabbling between classes in a remarkable system of urban gardening called hydroponic agriculture in which he grows vibrant organic produce without soil. Outlandish but true, it''s just another extracurricular project of soon-to-be-Dr. Azwell.

July 14, 2008 - Boston Fellow and Agency Recognized for Community Work

Congratulations to Ashley Younger and the Voice of the Gospel Tabernacle Church for being awarded third place from the American Heart Association’s “Search Your Heart” Campaign!

Ashley Younger is a current Boston Fellow and a graduate student at Boston College Connell School of Nursing.  For her Schweitzer Project, Ashley is collaborating with the Gospel of Tabernacle Church in Mattapan to develop a scholarship and training program for Haitian immigrants to become certified nursing assistants and community outreach educators engaging in illness prevention and cancer screening projects among the local community. 

As part of her project, Ashley helped to organize events in the church community related to the American Heart Association’s “Search Your Heart” Campaign including a health fair, gathering stroke prevention pledges, walking group, and education sessions.  Ashley and the Voice of the Gospel Tabernacle Church were recognized for their achievements at the recent African-American Ladies of Influence Luncheon at UMASS Boston where they received third place and $1,000 prize to benefit the church. 

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