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Chaim Brickman Named
To Lupus Hall of Fame

JCCouncil Meeting
Features Journalist

Jack . Rosenthal, Pulitzer
Prize-winning editorial page
editor of the New York Times,
will be the keynote speaker at
the Jewish Community Con-
cii of Metroplitan Detroit's
annual meeting 7:30 p.m.
May 28 at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek. A dessert
reception will precede the
meeting. At the meeting, the

The Council will
hold its annual
election of officers.

Council will hold its annual
election of officers and
members of the board of direc-
tors, and will present the 24th
Annual Walter E. Klein
Youth Award for outstanding
effort in social action.
Mr. Rosenthal directs the 12
member Times editorial
board and supervises the Op-
Ed page and the letters to the
editor columns. He recently
visited the Soviet Union and
Israel, and will speak on
"Jews in the News: Media

Jewish Charities
Approves Grants

United Jewish Charities
has approved two grants
totalling $28,000 to further
the training of hundreds of
Jewish educators.
A $25,000 grant was award-
ed to the Jewish Educators
Council to help local teachers
who plan to attend the 1991
Coalition for the Advance-
ment of Jewish Education
(C.A.J.E.) Conference. In addi-
tion, $3,000 was awarded to
the C.A.J.E. Scholarship
Fund, which supports
teachers who live in com-
munities not served by
federations.
Administered by the Agen-
cy for Jewish Education, local
subsidies of up to $150 per
teacher will be available.
Those planning to attend the
conference will apply for the
grant through their schools.
The subsidy will cover one-
third of the estimated cost of
the conference. The re-
mainder will be paid for by
participants and their
employers.
The C.A.J.E. Conference, at
Hofstra University in Hemp-
stead, N.Y., will bring
together teachers from
around the world.
In partnership with the
Jewish Welfare Federation,
UJC distributes earnings
from its investments to a wide
range of programs and
charities.

Coverage of the Middle East
and Other Jewish Issues." In
recent years, the issue of how
the media cover the Middle
East has itself become con-
troversial. Mr. Rosenthal will
discuss reasons why the news
media are often criticized for
their treatment of Israel and
other Jewish issues.
This meeting will mark the
end of Council President Paul
D. Borman's three year term
as president. Mr. Borman's
presidency has been marked
by an emphasis on solidarity
with Jews in Israel and the
Soviet Union, and upon more
effective relationships bet-
ween the Jewish and other
religious and ethnic
communities.
The slate of nominees for of-
ficer positions includes Jean-
nie Weiner for president;
Alexander Blumenberg, Berl
Falbaum and Allen Zemmol
for vice president; Andrew

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Jack Rosenthal

Zack for secretary and Elaine
Driker for treasurer. The
Council delegates also will
vote to fill sixteen board of
directors positions.
There is no charge for the
program. Reservations are re-
quired; call the Jewish Com-
munity Council, 962-1880.

Bonds Dinner Honors
Hospital Executives

The Metropolitan Detroit
Professional Health Services
Division of State of Israel
Bonds will honor the top ex-
ecutives of two major Metro
Detroit hospitals at a tribute
dinner 6:30 p.m. June 13 at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
Receiving State of Israel
Maimonides Awards will be
Paul L. Broughton, president
of Harper Hospital, and Jack
H. Whitlow, executive direc-
tor of Pontiac Osteopathic
Hospital.
Serving as the dinner's co-
chairmen are Drs. Harold
Bienenfeld and Melvin
Lester.
In addition to his position
as president of Harper
Hospital, Paul Broughton is
the senior vice president of
the Detroit Medical Center.
Prior to joining Harper-Grace
in 1989, Mr. Broughton serv-
ed as president and chief ex-
ecutive officer of Children's
Hospital of Michigan. Before
joining Children's Hospital in
1977, he spent over 10 years
at the Children's Hospital
Medical Center in Boston.
Mr. Broughton is a mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees
for the Southeast Michigan
Hospital Council and is
the immediate past chairman
of that board. His profes-
sional service includes
memberships and committee
involvement with the State-
wide Health Coordinating
Council, Healthcare Finan-

Broughton

Whitlow

cial Management Associa-
tion, Greater Detroit Area
Health Council, • Council of
Teaching Hospitals, and the
United Foundation.
Jack Whitlow graduated
from Wayne State University
in Detroit with a bachelor of
science degree. He began
working at Pontiac Osteo-
pathic Hospital in 1958 and
has been the hospital's ex-
ecutive director since 1974.
He is a fellow and past
president of the College of
Osteopathic Care Executives
and a Fellow of the American
College of Healthcare
Executives.
Mr. Whitlow is a member of
the American Academy of
Medical Administrators, a life
member of the American
Osteopathic Hospital Associa-
tion and a member of the Pon-
tiac Downtown Development
Authority.
For tribute dinner reserva-
tions, call Israel Bonds,
352-6555.

summer internship in
1961 quickly turned
into a lifelong passion
for 38-year-old Dr. Chaim
Brickman.
After high school, the
Philadelphia native started
working as an assistant at
the Albert Einstein Medical
Center in Philadelphia in a
lab that specialized in lupus,
a disease primarily affecting
women in which the body's
immune system is overac-
tive.
"Ever since, the study of
lupus has been dear to my
heart," said Dr. Brickman of
Southfield. "I enjoy my
research." He was recently
inducted into the American
Lupus Society Hall of Fame
for his dedication to lupus
research and patient care.
Each year, a physician
who has made some impact
in studying the disease is
named to the Lupus Hall of
Fame, a national association
of researchers and doctors.
This year's choice, Dr.
Brickman, an internist, is
Sinai Hospital's director of
the lupus and immunology
program.
Lupus can't be cured, but
it can be controlled with
drugs and education. Symp-
toms are joint pain and skin
rashes. With lupus, the skin
is often overly sensitive. -
Living with lupus, he said,
is often as simple as staying
out of the sun, though severe
cases can be fatal. It is fatal
in five percent of its victims.
The disease strikes nine
times as many women as
men, most in their child-
bearing years. It affects one
of 250 blacks and one of 600
white women.
"With lupus, the body gets
confused and rejects itself,"
Dr. Brickman said.
Lupus can be triggered by
sunshine, estrogen and other
drugs. It can be treated with
cortisone, a neutral steroid.
Some cases are treated with
chemotherapy, he said. Next
month, Dr. Brickman will
launch a study to see if lupus
can be treated by reducing
estrogen levels. The process,
in which a woman with
lupus would take a medica-
tion that blocks normal
hormone production, has
been tested on mice.
Dr. Brickman said that
mice treated with this
medication, which is
awaiting U.S. Food and

Drug Administration ap-
proval, lived twice as long as
they usually live with the
disease.
The medication, which
would be marketed by Tap
Pharmaceutical of Chicago,
has never been used to treat
lupus. "It seems to be a safe
method of putting lupus into
remission," Dr. Brickman
said.
For the study, he is looking
for 25 females afflicted with
lupus, who can bear children
but are not trying to get
pregnant.
"Lupus is the granddaddy
of all immune system
diseases," Dr. Brickman
said. "They all have the
same basic thread in which
the body is allergic to itself.
If we understand lupus, we
can understand such diseases

"If we understand
lupus, we can
understand such
diseases as
multiple sclerosis,
rheumatoid
arthritis and
diabetes:'

as multiple sclerosis, rheuma-
toid arthritis and diabetes."
Dr. Brickman joined Sinai
Hospital in 1984 as chief of
the laboratory of clinical
immunology.
He spent four years at the
National Institute of Health
performing research for
lupus-related conditions. He
is a fellow of the American
College of Physicians and an
advisory board member of
the Michigan Lupus Foun-
dation. ❑

Chernobyl Children
Group Sets Meeting

Children of Chernobyl will
hold an informational and
organizatonal parlor meet-
ing 7:30 p.m. May 22 at the
home of Miriam Ferber, 4401
S. Bay Dr., West Bloomfield.
The meetings will be hosted
by Miriam Ferber and Bar-
bara Nusbaum. For directions,
call 681-4843.
A second meeting will be
held 7:30 p.m. May 23 at the
home of Steven and Sharon
Shaffer, 1230 Pembury Lane,
Bloomfield Hills. For direc-
tions, call 332-1083.
Jay Litvin, National Coor-
dinator of Children of Cher-
nobyl, will speak at both
meetings and there will be a
video presentation as well.

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