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A screening of the new documentary
a professional conference for hospice care-
Transforming Loss, benefiting the Jewish
givers, social workers, nurses, physicians,
Hospice and Chaplaincy Network
clergy and other professionals
(JHCN), is planned for 7 p.m.,
who work with those facing
Tuesday, March 12, at the Berman
end of life. The conference will
Center for the Performing Arts at
be at Congregation Shaarey
the Jewish Community Center in
Zedek in Southfield. For infor-
West Bloomfield.
mation, go to www.caring
The evening is the inaugural
coalition.org.
Tickets for the March 12
program of JHCN's Grand Circle
of Women, created to help sup-
film are $18, including a spe-
port educational programming on Judith
cial talk-back program and
Burdic k
hospice issues for women.
refreshments. Order by calling
(248) 592-2687 or by mailing
The film tells of seven survivors
of profound loss. The film's direc-
ticket requests and payments
tor and writer, psychotherapist
to JHCN, 6555 W. Maple Road,
Judith Burdick of Bloomfield Hills,
West Bloomfield, MI 48322. No
will introduce the film and partici-
tickets will be sold that evening.
pate in a conversation afterward.
At the same number, learn
Noted journalist, political pun-
about the Grand Circle of
dit and writer Eleanor Clift also
Women and patron opportuni-
will be a featured speaker. She is a Elean or Clift
ties for March 12.
contributing editor for Newsweek
The Jewish Hospice and
magazine and author of Two Weeks of
Chaplaincy Network provides patient
Life: A Memoir of Love, Death and Politics, advocacy and support services to meet
which tells the parallel stories of her
the cultural and spiritual needs of Jewish
husband's death at home with hospice
patients and their families. It is also
alongside the national debate over Terri
the administrating organization for the
Schiavo.
Caring Coalition and upcoming confer-
Clift also will speak March 13 at the
ence. For more information, visit www.
sixth annual Caring Coalition Conference, jewishhospice.org.
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WSU's Brain Study
Breaks New Ground
Wayne State University School of
Medicine researchers have shown for
the first time that brain connectivity in
human fetuses can be measured, which
could translate into new ways to diagnose,
prevent and treat brain disorders like
autism, attention deficit hyperactivity dis-
order, dyslexia and cognitive impairments
in early life.
A collaborative project between WSU and
the Perinatology Research Branch (PRB)
of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development of the National Institutes
of Health led to this major discovery.
The team, led by neuroscientist Moriah
Thomason, Ph.D., assistant professor of
Pediatrics at the WSU School of Medicine
and director of the Perinatal Neural
Connectivity Unit of the PRB, applied
functional magnetic resonance imaging
to study when communication or connec-
tivity between areas of the brain emerge
during human fetal life. Extremely chal-
lenging to perform, the research discov-
ered that connectivity is already present
during fetal life and becomes stronger
during fetal development.
"Many brain disorders are thought
to arise from disrupted communication
in brain networks:' Dr. Thomason said.
"Therefore, it is of great importance to
understand how these networks form and
what events can impact the formation of
networks and their connectivity'
Transplant Institute
Gets Coverage OK
The Henry Ford Transplant Institute
— the only center in Michigan perform-
ing transplantation of the intestine —
received approval from the Center for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
to provide more coverage to patients who
are candidates for intestine transplant.
"CMS approval opens the door for
our Medicare and Medicaid patients,
who comprise more than 50 percent
of individuals in Michigan in need of
an intestine transplant:' says Marwan
Kazimi, M.D., director of the Henry Ford
Transplant Institute's Small Bowel and
Multivisceral Program.
Henry Ford Hospital is among five
programs in the country to offer a com-
prehensive small bowel and multivisceral
transplant program.
There were 180 multivsceral trans-
plants performed in the United States last
year. Henry Ford Hospital performed the
first intestine transplant in Michigan in
August 2010.