Daily Digest for 94-07-12
Dear Friends,
We are very happy to announce that Natasha will soon be making her first=
visit to America -- arriving in the US on July 29 and staying through=
August 24. She will be a guest of The University of Tennessee for the=
first 3 weeks of her stay and of Washington State University for the final=
few days.
While the itinerary is not completely final yet, it looks like we will be=
meeting Natasha in New York City where we will spend a couple of days=
sight-seeing, spending 4 days or so in Washington, DC showing her our=
nation's capital, two days in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, a day or so=
at "the beach" (she wants to see the Atlantic Ocean), two weeks in=
Knoxville (where she will be employed as an information specialist at the=
University), and then the last two days of her trip in Washington state.
We are excited about Natasha's visit and about showing her as much as we can=
of America. Please let us know of anything that you feel she would enjoy=
while here!
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#01-12 July 94 Sender: "Stephen J. Marsden"
(smarsden@ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us)
Subject Kazakhstan - Request for Info
#02-12 July 94 Sender: Beverly Seavey (beverly@yola.nmrfam.wisc.edu)
Subject: trying to contact Bishkek University
#03-12 July 94 Sender: psekirin@epas.utoronto.ca (peter sekirin)
Subject: info request
#04-12 July 94 Sender: edgar@spectrx.sbay.org (Edgar W. Swank)
Subject: Russian Tutor Follow-Up
#05-12 July 94 Sender: Sender: jbarash@maple.circa.ufl.edu
Subject: a question
#06-12 July 94 Sender: david chaika
(David.Chaika@lambada.oit.unc.edu)
Subject: First Russian/American Breast Cancer Conference
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Sender: "Stephen J. Marsden" (smarsden@ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us)
Subject Kazakhstan - Request for Info
I am looking for sources of information reguarding agriculture in
Kazakhstan. Also contacts in Kazakhstan, especially someone with an
Internet connection. Thank you for your help. Steve
Stephen Marsden, Springfield, Missouri, USA
Phone: 417-753-3999, Fax: 417-753-2000
smarsden@ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us
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Sender: Beverly Seavey (beverly@yola.nmrfam.wisc.edu)
Subject: trying to contact Bishkek University
I'm trying to contact Bishkek University in Kyrghystan. In particular,
I'm trying to contact Cholpon Dyikanovna, who taught here in Wisconsin for a=
year. The email address that she gave me: Root@academ.bishkek.su, doesn't=
give any reply. Any help would be appreciated.
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Sender: psekirin@epas.utoronto.ca (peter sekirin)
Subject: info request
Dear Colleagues,
I have just subscribed to your friends-solar-list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please send me materials of your International E-mail conference
DISTANCE LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION, 7 July, 1994
Besides, can you help me to get in touch with my colleages at Moscow
University, St. Petersburg university and other big universities in Russia?
Do you have White Pages directory for Russian e-mail?
Do you know any other subscription lists conferences connected with Russia?
Thank you. Best wishes.
Most sincerely,
Peter Sekirin, PhD
Slavic Department
University of Toronto, Canada
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Sender: edgar@spectrx.sbay.org (Edgar W. Swank)
Subject: Russian Tutor Follow-Up
=46riends,
A while ago (early June) I offered to send anyone a copy of a Russian
tutor program I had who would post it to an FTP site. I received
just such a request from one
Gary Scheid (ASGS@acad2.alaska.edu)
I sent him a copy on June 11, but never heard back from him about any
=46TP site. I sent a followup msg on June 27, but haven't received any
response from that either.
I have received several other requests for the program. I'm not
willing to be a general e-mail distribution site. So I'm sending the
program in nine UUENCODED sections to the friends list. The list
managers can either allow it to go through as is or intercept it and
post it to a site of their selection, or none of the above. In any
case, please don't send me any more requests for this program.
My apologies to the other people who sent me e-mail about this
program. Please consider the above a response to your request.
--
edgar@spectrx.sbay.org (Edgar W. Swank)
SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Cupertino, Ca
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Sender: jbarash@maple.circa.ufl.edu
Subject: a question
I was just wondering what NIS is
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Sender: david chaika (David.Chaika@lambada.oit.unc.edu)
Subject: First Russian/American Breast Cancer Conference
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NEWS
=46IRST RUSSIAN-AMERICAN BREAST CANCER CONFERENCE
USA Headquarters: 8033 Old NC 86, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Phone/Fax: (919) 967-2184 EMail:brc@med.unc.edu
Contact: Bud Vaden
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 8, 1994
=46irst Russian-American Breast Cancer Conference To Be Held
June 7-9, 1995 in Saratov, Russia Is Sponsored by NCI,
State Department, UNC, NABCO
Chapel Hill, NC, July 7 The First Russian-American Breast
Cancer Conference open to physicians throughout Russia will be be
held in Saratov, Russia, June 7-9, 1995. Organized to share
advances in breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and prevention,
the three-day conference is sponsored by the National Cancer
Institute of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S.
Department of State, the National Alliance of Breast Cancer
Organizations, the University of North Carolina School of
Medicine, the Saratov Medical University and Russia's National
Oncology Center in Moscow.
Although the US and Russia have collaborated on cancer
research projects since 1972, with much of the work occurring in
Moscow, Russian physicians in the provincial capital of Saratov,
a city closed to foreigners for a half-century and only recently
opened to Westerners, hailed the conference as a major scientific
and political event that will further melt the ice and promote
expanded cooperation in scientific and medical fields.
Although this conference was created primarily to update the
Russian medical community, interest by North American and
Western European physicians resulted in opening the conference to
those physicians as well. This conference ends a half-century of
seclusion for most doctors in the Soviet Union from Western
scientific and medical development.
Nearly a dozen leading breast cancer experts from the
United States will join specialists from throughout the former
Soviet Union as conference leaders. The distinguished faculty of
American breast cancer specialists includes Martin D. Abeloff,
Director, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center; Bruce A. Chabner,
Director, Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer
Institute; C. Norman Coleman, Chairman, Harvard Joint Center
for Radiation Therapy; Kathleen M. Foley, Professor of
Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Robert N.
Hoover, Chief, Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer
Institute; David W. Kinne, Professor of Surgery,
Columbia-Presbyterian Comprehensive Cancer Center; Edison T. Liu,
Principal Investigator, Breast Cancer SPORE Grant, Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina;
Virginia A. LiVolsi, Director of Surgical Pathology and Vice
Chair for Anatomic Pathology, University of Pennsylvania
Comprehensive Cancer Center; and C. Kent Osborne, Interim Chief,
Division of Medical Oncology and Principal Investigator, Breast
Cancer SPORE Grant, University of Texas Health Science Center.
Russian participants include N.N. Trapesnikov, Academician
of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and Director of the
National Oncology Center in Moscow; E.A. Koreckiy, Professor,
National Cancer Institute of the Ukraine; V.F. Semiglazov,
Corresponding Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical
Sciences and Professor of Oncology at the Petrov Research
Institute of Oncology in St. Petersburg; K.P. Hanson,
Director, Petrov Institute in St. Petersburg; and other
distinguished oncology specialists from cancer institutes and
medical schools in the former Soviet Union.
Co-Chairs of the Conference are Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D.,
adjunct professor of medicine at the University of North
Carolina, who initiated and is principal organizer of the
conference, Academician Trapesnikov and V.F. Kirichuk,
Corresponding Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical
Sciences and Rector of Saratov Medical University.
Dr. Cassileth, internationally known for her work in
psychosocial medicine, developed the idea for the conference
while visiting Saratov Medical University in late 1993. After
meeting with physicians and patients and observing the
decades-wide gap separating Russian and Western medical and
scientific knowledge, she determined to help bring about change.
She broached the idea for an international conference with Drs.
V.V. Vlassov and Josef Gorfinkel, department chairs and
professors at Saratov Medical Institute.
She was especially aware of the pressing need for current
knowledge, technology and communication relating to breast
cancer which, like all medicine in Russia outside Moscow, lags
significantly behind current practices in science and medicine.
The Russian physicians responded enthusiastically and work began
simultaneously in the U.S. and Russia to create the program.
Saratov is a city of one million people on the Volga
River, 450 miles Southeast of Moscow. Formerly a major center
of military manufacturing, only recently has its large medical
community been granted access to Western medical specialists and
literature. Saratov Medical University, one of the first in
Russia, was established in 1909. It now has 5,000 medical
students and a faculty of more than 800 professors in 79
departments and laboratories. Its five teaching hospitals have a
combined total of 2,400 beds. It is one of the largest and
highest-rated medical centers in Russia.
Chapel Hill, site of the University of North Carolina and
its School of Medicine, is a Sister City to Saratov. Although the
Breast Cancer Conference is not a formal Sister City project,
Drs. Cassileth, Vlassov and Gorfinkel are active in their
respective Sister Cities programs. The conference is in keeping
with the international people-to-people concept conceived by
President Eisenhower and today implemented around the world
through the Sister Cities program as a means of promoting
friendship and understanding among nations.
Conference arrangements are coordinated by Svetlana
Lisanti, President, Center for Bio-Medical Communication, Inc.,
Dumont, New Jersey. Additional conference information may be
obtained by telephoning the Center at (201) 385-8080.
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