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Travel with FAIR and meet a few of our
newest physician members and friends...
New AMWA President
With Lila A. Wallis, M.D. With Lila A. Wallis, MD. Dr. Lila Wallis's bio includes clinical professor of medicine at Cornell University Medical College, past president of the American Medical Women Associations (AMWA) and founder and first president of the National Council on Women's Health. She is the only physician, male or female, in the United States to have acquired board certifications in internal medicine and hematology as well as endocrinology and metabolism, and she is an internationally recognized expert on estrogen replacement therapy. Wallis is the editor in chief of Textbook of Women's Health and senior author of The Whole Woman: Take Charge of Your Health in Every Phase of Your Life. A graduate of Barnard College in Columbia University, and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia, Dr. Wallis is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal and the Georgia Anna Jones lifetime achievement award. AMWA has also established an annual women's health award in her name. The Lila A. Wallis Award is given each year by the AMWA to an individual whose lifetime achievements, accomplishments, motivation, mentorship, energy and enthusiasm for women’s health, education, and research reflect the trailblazing achievements and influences in women’s health exemplified by Dr. Lila A. Wallis. The annual nomination deadline is April 15th and you may submit your nomination here. With Leah Dickstein, M.D. Psychiatrist Leah J. Dickstein, MD, MA, is a former president of the American Medical Women's Association and former Vice President of the American Psychiatric Association. Her innovative Health Awareness Workshop Program, at the University of Louisville, was based on her experience attending medical school while raising a child with the help of her husband, Herbert. The popular program, which covered everything from individual well-being to personal relationships as well as race and gender issues, has made the University of Louisville one of the nation's most family-friendly medical colleges. Graduating from college in 1955, she married and lived in Belgium with Herbert who was a medical student. She taught English at the Berlitz Language School to support the remainder of his medical education. In 1959 when Herbert returned to complete residency training, Dr. Dickstein taught school in Brooklyn for six years and subsequently entered medical school in 1966 at the age of 32. She was one of only six women in her class and had to balance her academic responsibilities with the demands of raising a son. She was clear about her priorities and expectations and chose to save Saturdays and summers for family activities, rather than attempt to graduate at the top of her class. Her husband, a pathologist, helped keep her close to her son, even bringing him to visit her at the hospital when she was on call during medical school. She and her family made a number of practical adjustments as well. They ate off paper plates to save clean-up time, and she became an early devotee of permanent-press clothing. She jokes that her son even asked her what an iron was when he found it in the closet, as supposedly he'd never seen one in use. Her practical experience, combined with the skills and strategies she developed to cope with everyday challenges of being a mother and physician, became the basis for the Health Awareness Workshop Program that she directed from 1981 until 2001. The program topics ranged from study skills and time-management to exercise and nutrition, community resources and mentoring. Many of the presentations and materials were authored by senior medical students and one by her youngest son. The message is that students must take care of their own physical and mental health before they can learn to take care of others. As Director, Dr. Dickstein helped teach medical students and their partners how to cope with the demands of medical school. Copies of her book, Health Awareness Workshop, a reference text, are available from Dr. Dickstein at ljdicksteinmd@aol.com. To see this excellent resource's front and back cover, click here. With
the American Medical Association
With
Satya Khalsa of Silver Dream With
Jennifer Almli (L), Regional Account Manager of the Student
Assistance Foundation, To
South Lake Tahoe for Dr. Darling's presentation to University of
Nevada-Reno School of Medicine's CME Course entitled "Alimentary Update."
Course brochure and
agenda.
With FAIR members
Joanne Imperial, MD, and Ken Morgan, Treasurer of the
As he
did in Tucson at the AMWA Convention, Dr. Darling's Tahoe presentation point out
the
and as the keynote speech at the concluding dinner, at which time Dr. Darling gave his speech promoting organ donation, the "Gift of Life," and the need for new organ-donor policies to offset the organ-donor crisis in America with one person dying every 90 minutes while waiting.
In Palm Desert to physicians and healthcare professionals in a presentation sponsored by Astellas Healthcare (Formerly Fujisawa). Here with Astellas's Healthcare Specialist, Sandy Smith, (standing) and seated representatives from the Loma Linda University Medical Center as follows (L-R): the Director of Referral Development Julie Humeston, Liver Transplant Coordinator Jennifer Stuart, RN, and Kidney Transplant Coordinators Lynn Bossiere, RN, BSN
And
below with (L-R) kidney-pancreas transplant recipient, Danny
Below at the Fifth Inter-county Annual Hepatitis C Task Force
Conference hosted by the
FAIR's CEO, Dr. Darling, educated on the "Dilemmas and Solutions of
Transplant Patients"
We
invite you to visit with Dr. Darling as he brings
the FAIR Foundation as an
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