In Brief
Take a stroll for Strong kids
For the ninth year, Stroll for Strong Kids will raise money for Golisano Children's Hospital. The event on June 4 at Genesee Valley Park includes a two-mile walk and children's activities, including a concert by Gary the Happy Pirate. To register, visit www.gchas.org/events/stroll/index1.cfm or call x3-5948.
Download new petty cash form
A new petty cash fund request form is available on the finance department Web site at www.rochester.edu/adminfinance/finance/finforms.htm. The form, used for requesting a new petty cash fund, also includes options for increasing, decreasing, or terminating a fund.
Check out the spring music fest
Eastman's Community Music School is hosting Spring Festival Week that kicks off May 21 and continues through Saturday, May 28. The event features nightly concerts, recitals, lectures, juries, and other events. For a schedule, visit www.rochester.edu/Eastman/community.
Experts discuss end-of-life issues
Timothy Quill, director of the University's Center for Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics and a leading expert on end-of-life care, will lead a community discussion on advanced directives--living wills, health care proxy, power of attorney, and do-not-resuscitate orders--at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 9, at Greece Apollo Middle School, 750 Maiden Lane.
Advanced directives and related issues have received increased attention in recent months due to the debate surrounding the death of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman in a vegetative state whose parents and husband fought a bitter legal battle to determine who would make decisions about her end-of-life care.
Marcia Buckley of the Palliative Care Consult Service at the Medical Center and Beth Dorscheid, director of Hospice Care for Visiting Nurse Service, will join Quill for the discussion "Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, Terri Schiavo, and You: Does Your Family Know How You Feel about End-of-Life Issues?"
There will be onsite volunteers to assist with health care proxy forms at the discussion. The program is part of a lecture series sponsored in part by the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center.
Irish photo exhibit continues
Works by local photographer Joe Territo will be on view as part of the exhibition The Children of Belfast through May 27 in the Edward G. Miner Library at the Medical Center. An award-winning medical photographer who specializes in the field of ophthalmology, Territo was inspired to pursue this project, in part, by a young girl from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who has visited him for several summers thanks to a program sponsored by the Irish Children's Program of Rochester. For details, call x5-3361 or visit www.urmc.edu/hslt/miner/about/news/Territo_exhibit.cfm.
Camp helps athletes avoid injury
University Sports Medicine is sponsoring an eight-week strength and conditioning camp designed to help high school athletes increase strength, power, and flexibility regardless of their particular sports concentration. Trainers will coach athletes in correct biomechanics for basic movements. In addition, the camp will include components of the ACL injury prevention program, along with other injury prevention techniques.
Two eight-week camp sessions, one for males and the other for females, continues from June 20 to August 11. Athletes must be between the ages of 14 to 18 to participate. Sessions are Mondays and Thursdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more information or to register, call University Sports Medicine at 341-9150.
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