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This Week...
August 22
Dr. Matt Malkan "Origins, the Grand Philosophical Question"
Upcoming...
August 29 Jim Crane & UCLA Rotaract "Our Future Leaders Run the Meeting!" September 5
Eric Loberg & Mike
Newman
"Senior Craft Talks" |
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August 22 Dr. Matt Malkan "Origins, the Grand Philosophical Question" |
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August 29 Jim Crane & UCLA Rotaract "Our Future Leaders Run the Meeting!" |
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President Mark Rogo welcomed everyone to the
friendly Westwood Village Rotary and invited PP
Leo Tseng to lead our pledge. I always
appreciate that before Leo leads us in our
pledge to be grateful and appreciative of our
fine country. PP Ed Gauld provided this week's
invocation.
Paul Aslan sang Clementine over and over and over!
Guests this week included Jonathan Kim formerly
from the Westlake Village Rotary and Jim
Collins' youngest son, Mike Collins. Welcome
gentlemen!
President Rogo issued fines to the members at
our head table today:
Diane Good no pin $15
Terry White $50 no tie (for the first time in his perfect attendance for decades! The Shock!!) Tom Barron $50 for being in the newspaper for Catholic Charities and without a Rotary tattoo on his face! ;) Tom then added an additional $50 to his fine b/c from this Sterling advertisement he realized, he never materialized Donald Sterling to our club as he once offered.
President Mark gave us our Rotary History moment
today from 1922
Announcements:
Our speaker today was introduced by our PE, Aly
Shoji, who has staffed Dr. Anne Coscarelli for
the last couple of years at UCLA. Dr.
Coscarelli is a psychologist, the Director of
the Simms/Mann Center for Integrative Oncology
at UCLA and has conducted research on quality
for end of life care specifically relating to
Cancer for the last 33 years. There are many
Cancer Centers across the nation that can cut
the tumor out or provide radiation or
chemotherapy but the Simms/Mann Center provides
psycho-social services in addition to these
clinical services as a special component of our
cancer care. For example if you're a survivor
and concerned about recurrence there are
meditation groups or a husbands group for those
who's wife had breast cancer, or a children's
group if a parent receives a diagnosis. She
will share and articulate the services they
offer, mostly for free, that include
psychologists, social workers, a chaplain,
nutritionists etc. Please give a warm welcome
to Dr. Anne Coscarelli.
Medicine Alone is Not Enough: A Model for
Integrative Oncology Care by Anne Coscarelli,
Ph.D., Founding Director for the Simms/Mann
Center for Integrative Oncology at UCLA started
by sharing it was nice to be back in the company
of Rotarians as the last time was in 1971 when
she won the CA State speech contest and shared
her speech to Rotary. In addition, her Father
was a Rotarian in Long Beach so she has a lot of
respect and familiarity with our organization.
Dr. Coscarelli started by showing a video about
Psychological Reactions to Diagnosis and
Recurrence of Cancer and shared her
"Coscarelli's Law of Cancer," For every physical
effect, there is an equal reactive psychological
effect. And the Impacts of Cancer including all
aspects of an individual's and the FAMILY's
functioning that is often forgotten:
Psychological, physical, spiritual, social,
sexual, work/economic.
Cancer is a FAMILY disease. The devastating
effects go beyond the patient and the tagline
for the Center has been, "The Center exists when
Medicine is not Enough." She provided an
overview
The Center's Mission Statement: A center of
integrative oncology...maintaining wellness,
maximizing health, and complementing the best
oncologic practices and scientific research
through individualized care offered by a
multidisciplinary team committed to enhancing
the physical, psychological and spiritual
well-being of people touched by cancer.
She continued by describing some of the staff
and trainees of the Center and how they hope
this model of care will be replicated into all
cancer centers.
What makes this Center unique? All their
programs and services are located under one
roof, there is a large team of psychosocial
oncology professionals with multiple
disciplines, provision of care in clinics side
by side physicians in multiple locations across
sites, and most services are without any fees.
They are funded by donations, fees (integrative
oncology specialist and some psychiatry),
revenue from Reflections. They do not have an
endowment and do NOT receive revenue from the
University.
Does the Simms/Mann Center Meet the Four Way Test? A resounding YES as she reflected on each point and how the Center shares this idea of Service Above Self. I'm sure our members were able to see her remarkable dedication to our patients and the services the Center provides. She shared her "three children" are Makena - 29, Katelyn - 27, and the Simms/Mann Center - 20. If Dr. Coscarelli had three wishes:
* Cancer could be prevented
* Cancer could be cured for everyone
* Cancer patients and their families receive
optimal integrated medical, psychosocial,
spiritual and psychiatric care throughout the
continuum of cancer treatment and survivorship
YYE Aly Shoji |
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