Bowdoin Street Community Day A Sunny Success
Celebrating a Decade of PRIDE!
Staff Appointments
Healthy Work/Healthy Home Shows Healthy Results
Employees of the Quarter
Financial Planning for Women



Bowdoin Street Community Day
A Sunny Success



The sun shone brightly this weekend on Bowdoin Street, where more than 600 volunteers gathered together for the Annual Neighborhood Clean-Up and Bowdoin Street Health Fair. Armed with rakes and shovels, enthusiastic teams were dispersed throughout the neighborhood to gather tons of trash, tend to playground areas, and tidy flower beds. Residents and volunteers were then treated to an afternoon of barbeque (with Bowdoin Street Health Center master chefs), health education tables staffed by Harvard Medical School's Black Health Organization students, and music by DJ Charles Clemmons. The event culminated in a grand raffle drawing (for all those who participated in health education activities) of two pairs of Red Sox tickets! Above: Andrea Jackson, HMS Black Health Organization chair, poses with two lucky winners of Red Sox tickets (center) and DJ Charles Clemmons (right) at Bowdoin Street's barbeque.


Celebrating a Decade of PRIDE!

Please join the Lesbian and Gay Advisory Committee in celebrating a Decade of PRIDE at BIDMC. The Annual Lesbian and Gay Achievement Award Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, June 10 at noon in the Shapiro Board Room. The nominations form for the award can be found on the General Web Portal under Special Events and is now being accepted through May 23. PRIDE week activities will end with the PRIDE Parade on Saturday, June 14. All employees, friends and family are invited to march with our BIDMC team! Please mark your calendars for June 10 and nominate your award-winning colleagues. For more information on these PRIDE activities or the Lesbian and Gay Advisory Committee, call Davide Romero at (66)7-3280 or email dromero@bidmc.harvard.edu.



Staff Appointments

William C. Aird, M.D., has been named chief of BIDMC’s division of molecular and vascular medicine (formerly the division of molecular medicine). An associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Aird is an outstanding hematologist and investigator and an internationally recognized leader in the field of vascular biology.
Under Aird’s leadership, the newly renamed division of molecular and vascular medicine will undertake research initiatives in both vascular and non-vascular areas, and will play a major role (along with other divisions in medicine, pathology, surgery and other departments) in establishing a hospital-wide program in vascular biology. Among Aird’s long-term goals for the division is the development of an innovative multidisciplinary clinical service he terms “endotheliology” (the study of endothelial cells’ roles in disease states).

Aird replaces Robert Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., who is retiring as chief of the division he established here in 1989. Rosenberg’s visionary leadership enabled the development of the first true division of molecular medicine at Beth Israel Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Rosenberg will continue to serve as the William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine at HMS. He will also join the Executive Committee of the new Vascular Biology Program that is being headed by Harold Dvorak, M.D., chairman of pathology at BIDMC and Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology at HMS, and Aird.


Healthy Work/Healthy Home Shows Healthy Results



BIDMC employees took the opportunity to learn more about recycling, home energy conservation and ways to safely dispose of items that use mercury, lead and other non-environmental friendly materials at the fifth annual Healthy Work/Healthy Home (HW/HH) event (above). President and CEO Paul Levy commented at the annual HW/HH Breakfast Roundtable on the importance of raising awareness about ways to support the environment, and praised employees’ commitment to such efforts. To date, 1,500 mercury thermometers, more than 250 pounds of batteries and a monthly average of 23 tons of mixed paper and cardboard have been collected and recycled or safely disposed of.

Employees of the Quarter l to r: Rovena Ward, Foster Browne and Leandro Cabrera

Three members of BIDMC’s Hotel Services staff have been named “Employees of the Quarter”: Rovena Ward, Hotel Service Business Center, is a 15-year employee whose meticulous bookkeeping work and warm smile make her the “go to” person in her department. Foster Browne, food services, is an eight-year staff member who is commended for always maintaining his fun and outgoing, “team player” attitude — even while supervising the receiving and distribution of thousands of pieces of food and paper inventory. Leandro Cabrera, environmental services (EVS), has been honored with the “EVS MVP” award for his hard-working style, commitment to service and conscientiousness in leading the floor care project team with outstanding results. Congratulations!


Financial Planning For Women

Each phase of a woman’s life brings unique financial challenges. With smart planning, you can make the most of your money. To help you meet these challenges, Human Resources and TIAA-CREF will offer a financial education seminar called “A Woman’s Money, A Woman’s Future” on two dates: Thurs., May 8 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Sherman Auditorium, and Thurs., May 15 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Kennedy G2B. There will be a discussion of proven tactics that you can use now — wherever you are in life — to prepare for a more secure financial future. You’ll get easy-to-understand guidance on investment basics, portfolio building, selecting the best products to meet your financial goals, retirement planning and more. To RSVP, call TIAA-CREF at 1-800-842-2733, ext. 1130.

While this seminar is designed primarily for women’s investment needs, there will be similar sessions aimed at a general audience in the near future. Watch for announcements in BIDMCtoday!