April 3, 2001
Contact: Jennifer Day, (313) 577-1058, jday@med.wayne.edu

CALENDAR ITEMS:
Diabetes Day, Jews and Medicine

WSU hosts Diabetes Day to educate,
help diabetics cope with disease
Wayne State University’s School of Medicine and the Detroit Medical Center will host its 14^th Annual Diabetes Day, a community education program for people with diabetes, on Saturday, April 28, in the Sterling Inn, in Sterling Heights. The daylong event will feature Dr. Richard Rubin, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who is nationally known for his work in helping people deal with diabetes on a personal level, as well as several WSU-affiliated experts. Participants will be offered free health screenings and have access to product displays. Registration is $15, including program book, lunch and snacks. For more information, call the American Diabetes Association, an event sponsor, at (248) 443-3830.

International Conference on Jews and Medicine:
Religious Thought, Cultural Patterns
and Practical Applications
Wayne State University’s School of Medicine and the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies will host an international conference on Jews and their contributions to medicine on Sunday, May 6, and Monday, May 7. The conference will explore various themes that define the Jews’ historic encounter with medicine and healing: Biblical religion and folk remedies, the emergence of medicine as a distinctive profession, the image of the Jewish doctor, the Jewish medical response to catastrophe and Jewish approaches to the distribution of health services. Sunday night’s program at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield will feature a keynote address, “The Jewish Doctor as Cultural Mediator,” by David B. Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff professor of modern Jewish history and director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Monday’s three conference sessions will be hosted at McGregor Memorial Conference Center on WSU’s campus. Registration is $35 and includes breakfast and lunch on May 7. For more information, contact Sandy Loeffler at (313) 577-2679 or aa2690@wayne.edu.