Alumni Weekend 2007
Saturday, May 12
Online registration is now closed. To guarantee your place at Alumni Weekend, you must register with a credit card by calling the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 215-898-8951 by 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 11.
Friday, May 11 | Saturday, May 12
Dental Hygiene Reunion | Visitor Information
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Saturday, May 12
8:30-11:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Robert Schattner Center, Henry Schein Atrium
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Class of 1957 Breakfast
(for members of the Class of 1957 and their guests)
Sig Seigel Alumni Center and Conference Room
Evans Building, Second Floor
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Women's Forum Presents "Empowering Patients to be Effective Collaborators: 21st Century Prescription for Health and Wellness"
by Dr. Marie A. Savard
Levy Building, B-13
Dr. Marie A. Savard (NHP '70, NU'72, M'76, INT '80), an internationally-recognized internal medicine physician, expert on wellness, and champion for patient rights has developed a simple but revolutionary program that teaches people how to partner with their physicians and take charge of their health care. Many people know far more about their car's maintenance record or their pet's medical history than they know about their own health history. Not until they are suddenly faced with a serious diagnosis or a chronic health condition do people recognize the importance of their specific medical histories and risk factors and taking charge of their health. Dr. Savard learned this first hand from personal and patient experiences and became even more passionate that patients must take control of their own health and health information. As a result, she developed a simple but revolutionary system to inspire and teach people how to manage their own health care.
Detailed in her three nationally acclaimed books, How to Save Your Own Life: The Savard System for Managing – and Controlling – Your Health Care and The Savard Health Record, and The Body Shape Solution to Weight Loss and Wellness, her system teaches people to trust their own instincts, collect their medical records, identify their own risk factors, research their conditions, shoulder the responsibility for prevention and wellness behaviors, and work in a fruitful partnership with their practitioners.
At the end of her presentation, participants will be able to:
• Identify common myths and behaviors that can jeopardize care and treatment and that contribute to rising health care costs and medical mistakes.
• Develop simple but powerful strategies to manage their personal health information and health care including how to assess personal risk factors and collect, organize, and understand their medical records.
• Identify and encourage specific techniques to partner more effectively with their physicians including how to prepare for doctor visits and hospital stays, research their health questions and concerns, and find a "health buddy" or health partner.
• Implement a simple monitoring system to keep track of mutually agreed upon individualized health and wellness goals and adhere to personal regimens.
• Empower patients to design in partnership with their physicians their own customized preventive health care regimen based on patient-identified goals, including tracking immunizations and seeking necessary preventive tests.
The Women's Forum, an initiative started in 2004 by the Penn Dental Medicine Alumni Society, offers alumni, in particular women, a special networking opportunity for making new connections and identifying new opportunities. Alumni are encouraged to attend the Forum, and participate in the dialogue about how to achieve and maintain a healthy work life balance. We can all benefit from supporting and assisting each other in our careers.
One credit lecture hour is offered to attendees. Penn Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP recognized provider.
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Dental School Tours/DentSim Lab Open House
Tours will leave from the Robert Schattner Center, Henry Schein Atrium
The DentSim Lab is located in the Evans Building, B-30.
Current students will lead tours of the Dental School. The DentSim Lab, which enables students to develop their preclinical skills using virtual reality technology, will be open for alumni to visit.
11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
A Conversation with President Amy Gutmann
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Auditorium
38th and Walnut Streets
Come hear President Amy Gutmann update Penn's plans for the future—from the campus' dramatic eastward expansion, to a revolutionary cancer-treating proton therapy center, to local and global initiatives and the University-wide capital campaign that will support them. A question-and-answer session will follow.
12:00-3:00 p.m.
Alumni Picnic
Hill Square, 34th and Chestnut Streets
Enjoy a buffet-style lunch with alumni in the Dental School's tent. Kosher meals will be available.
Throughout the picnic, enjoy a range of professional entertainment as well as student performing arts groups. At Kids Corner, arts and crafts will keep children amused and entertained during the picnic.
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Quakerkids 2007
Houston Hall, Hall of Flags
3417 Spruce Street
Bring the whole family to paint the campus red and blue! Stop by after the Picnic for great treats and fun activities for young children. Be sure to visit Penn Vet's M*A*S*H Tent, where kids will get a chance to stitch and mend stuffed animal patients, aided by veterinary students and faculty trauma docs. As a bonus, specialists from the Philadelphia Zoo will be on hand with furry and feathered friends sure to delight all ages.
6:30-10:00 p.m.
Reunion Class Dinners
Union League of Philadelphia
140 South Broad Street
The evening will begin with a cocktail reception for all reunion alumni followed by individual class dinners. The 2007 Alumni Awards of Merit will be presented during the cocktail reception. This year's recipients are I. Stephen Brown (GD'69), Cecile A. Feldman (C'80, D'84, GD'85, WG'85), John C. Kois (D'77), Arnold B. Porges (D'59), Burton Rosan (D'57, GD'62), Harvey M. Rosen (D'71, M'73, FEL'79), and Jonathan A. Ship (C'80, D'84).
There will also be a special presentation inducting Thomas Evans into the Hall of Fame of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, an international honorary dental organization that recognizes outstanding dentists and celebrates their achievements.
