Newsmakers

Last week, Michael E. Chansky, MD, Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on a segment for CBS3’s “Health Watch” discussing safety issues related to Hurricane Irene, including contaminated flood water, food spoiling, and generator dangers.

This week, CBS3 featured a story about the fateful encounter of two local physicians who met at ground zero on September 11, 2001, during the attacks on the World Trade Center. John Pryor, MD, a Philadelphia Trauma Surgeon and John Chovanes, DO, a Cooper Trauma Surgeon, both went on to serve in the military and a very close friendship was formed.

Every Wednesday, now through fall, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., Cooper’s Farm Stand, on the corner of Haddon Avenue and Benson Street, is open to the Camden community and Cooper employees. The stand offers locally grown fruits and vegetables, locally made cheese, eggs and other nutritious foods from area farms.

Cooper University Hospital’s Fourth Annual Resident/Fellow Forum was held August 11 on the 10th floor of the Roberts Pavilion. Residents and Fellows in attendance represented 13 programs.

World Breastfeeding Week, August 1 -7, was the perfect time to kick off an interdepartmental partnership to earn an elite designation for Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper as a “Baby-Friendly Hospital."

This week’s “Cooper Connections” in the Courier-Post features an article written by Thomas J. Presenza, DO, radiologist at Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper, on radiation safety for pediatric patients.