Volume 5, Number 31 - October 18, 2010

In this issue: 

• New award supports efforts to draw more Latinas to attend genetic counseling for risk
• Patient confidently returns to life as a typical teenager
• Program marks 50 years of fostering budding scientists
• City of Hope melanoma expert helps ground TV doctors and medical storylines in reality
• Saro Armenian named Instructor of the Year

 

A Biller birthday

Cassie Polchow of the Positive Image Center, right, discusses the center’s services with a visitor at the second anniversary celebration for the Sheri & Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center.

More than 600 people attended the Oct. 8 event, in which staff members from various disciplines discussed services offered through the Biller Patient and Family Resource Center, such as clinical social work, expressive art therapies and patient navigation. Sarah Lyding, executive director of the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, and Linda Klein, manager of operations at the Biller Patient and Family Resource Center, spoke at the event. (Photo by p.cunningham)