Health

Greater Detroit Hadassah's health workshop on Sunday
will bring women up to date.

EDITH BROIDA
Special to the Jewish News

Right, Barbara
Moretsky and Laura
Muzich assemble
giveaway Las for
guests at Hadassah's
health education clay.

Below, Barbara
Moretsky and Shirley
Robbins.

Keynote Focus:
Space•Age Health

Saralyn Mark, M.D., has serious concerns about
women's health care.
"I believe past gender-based inequities in both the
conduct of science and in access to health care services
have left serious gaps in our knowledge of the causes,
treatment and prevention of diseases in women and has
placed millions of American women at risk."
Trained as an endocrinologist and a geriatrician,
Mark's experience as senior medical advisor to the U.S.
Public Health Services Office on Women's Health has
given her a unique perspective on how health research
budgeting and clinical research trials have often excluded
women. She is particularly interested in space-age medi-
cine and was recently named senior medical advisor for
the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences at NASA.
Her Hadassah presentation on Sunday, "Women's
Health in the Space Age," will focus on advances in
imaging and telemedicine which, she feels, will improve
the diagnosis and treatment of women's diseases. Mark
will refer to a "technology transfer" from "the birth of
stars to breast health."

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1999
110 Detroit Jewish News

fter 10 months of planning,
the Greater Detroit Chapter
of Hadassah is presenting its
first health education day,
"Body, Mind, Heart, Soul," from 8:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 23, at the
Westin Hotel in Southfield.
The program will offer workshops for
women of all ages and a nationally
known keynote speaker, Dr. Saralyn
Mark, whose topic is "Women's Health
Care in the Space Age."
According to Beverly Apel, chapter
president, in recent years Hadassah has
introduced "Check It Out," an early
breast cancer detection program designed
for female 11th- and 12th-graders in
Wayne and Oakland County high
schools, and this year the chapter will
introduce a similar program on tes-
ticular cancer for high school males.
The health education initiative was
inspired by Hadassah's national con-
vention last July, which first present-
ed the "Body, Mind, Heart, Soul"
theme. Once the local chapter
adopted the project, it took five
months to find a site, said Barbara
Moretsky, Hadassah vice president
for education. Co-chairs of the event
are Roberta Blitz and Leila Stollman.
Designing the program proved
easier. "We wanted something for
young mothers," said Apel. The "She
Said, She Said" workshop focuses on
the decision of working or not work-
ing when parenting children. The
interests of other age groups are
served by "Adolescent Survival Kit,"
designed for their parents; "Getting
Older, Growing Better," focusing on
menopause issues and osteoporosis,
and "To Lift or Not to Lift," explor-
ing plastic surgery options. ment
procedures.
Other workshops include
"Jewish Mysticism-Applications to
Curative and Palliative Care,"
which considers the integration of
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mysticism in treatment; "How to Be