MUSC Catalyst

April 12, 2013

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA

Vol. 31, No. 33

Finding a sisterhood in an unlikely place

BY ALLYSON BIRD Office of Development and Alumni Affairs Amauri Bowman received an unexpected gift while resting in the hospital during a painful episode with sickle cell anemia a few years ago.

The jewelry kit came with a note inviting her to join a group called Sickle Cell Sisters when she turned 13. This unique sorority, the note explained, brings together local teenage girls who struggle with the same blood disease.

“I thought it would be cool to meet other people who had sickle cell and who know what I’m going through,” Amauri said. Now in her second year as a sister, the 14-year-old Porter-Gaud School student said, “It ended up being exactly what I expected.”

The sisters get together for an outing every other month during the school year. They make jewelry. They bowl. They throw a paint splatter party.

The program is therapeutic by design but never forced. Child Life specialist Melissa Hale said she and the other organizers don’t lead the conversations. They simply provide the setting.

“At first, they are just getting to know each other,” Hale said. “By the second meeting they start talking.

Then they open up more and ask, ‘Do you have ports?’

‘When do you go for transfusion?’ They talk about things they can’t talk about with other friends who don’t have sickle cell anemia.”

Sickle Cell Sisters operates on $2,500 of annual funding from the YES Family Fund. The campaign, which stands for Yearly Employee Support, encourages MUSC employees to donate toward education, patient care and research projects in need of extra cash.

“Without the grant, there would be no group,” Hale said. “The YES Family Fund supplies us with the means to provide these girls with an opportunity that they might not otherwise have — the opportunity to spend time with other girls who share the same medical treatments and experiences.”

For the past decade MUSC’s Child Life specialists

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NEW INSIDE WALKING TRAILS MUSC is encouraging employees and students to use the indoor walking routes.

Sickle Cell Sisters Amauri Bowman, Valeria Frazier and Kendra Scott make jewelry with Child Life specialist Melissa Hale (second from left). Sickle Cell Sisters is funded through the YES Campaign. To donate to the campaign, which kicked off April 4, visit https://giving.musc.edu/yes/. have recruited members of Sickle Cell Sisters through the hospital’s clinic. They send out about 40 letters and bring in 10 new high school-aged girls, on average, each year.

The sisters splurged at the end of last year with a spa day. Each of the girls enjoyed a manicure and pedicure, followed by lunch at P.F. Chang’s, where they could each order an appetizer, entrée and dessert.

“They thought that was the coolest thing,” Hale said.

“It’s definitely not what some of them are used to.”

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Amauri said she most enjoyed visiting Charleston Cooks! and learning how to prepare healthy dishes. She and the other girls made and then feasted on ham and cheese crepes, fruit parfait, grilled chicken salad and baked and fried doughnuts.

Amauri also appreciates the open dialogue that accompanies the activities.

“Sometimes we feel like you need to talk about it, like if they just changed my medicine again,” she said. “They are going through the same thing I am.”

DISADVANTAGE BECOMES AN ADVANTAGE

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Former chairman remembered

Squamous cell carcinoma didn’t detour speech pathology student, instead, she became an advocate.

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Meet Jimmy

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Walking trails promote physically active workplace Walking is one of the easiest ways to maintain functional fitness and reduce risk for chronic disease.

The surgeon general advises that 30 minutes of walking five days a week can significantly reduce the risk of developing a host of diseases, ranging from cancer to depression. Even dividing the walks into three 10-minute bouts each day will provide the same benefits.

On April 3, more than 100 employees joined MUSC President Ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., MUSC Health Executive Director Pat Cawley, M.D., and Charleston Mayor Pro Tem Dudley Gregorie on a walk around the MUSC medical mile in support of the American Heart Association’s National Walking Day.

Suzan Benenson Whelan, from left, Drs. Pat Cawley, Susan Johnson and Ray Greenberg stand near one of the walking trail signs.

Since January, nine new employee walking groups have formed and many are using the new walking trails identified by MUSC Employee Wellness: ! MUSC Wellness Walk: The indoor

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Charleston Mayor Pro Tem Dudley Gregorie, left, MUSC President Dr. Ray Greenberg, and MUSC Health Executive Director Dr. Pat Cawley walk a mile with students, staff and faculty. The walk was in support of the American Heart Association’s National Walking Day April 3. walking trail runs along the second floor of the College of Dental Medicine Building to Rutledge Tower and is marked by signs identifying distance. The one-mile roundtrip walk is an option for employees when the weather does not allow for outdoor walking. ! MUSC Medical Mile: This outdoor walking trail starts at the Horseshoe and proceeds down Ashley Avenue to Calhoun Street. Walkers then turn right on Calhoun Street and continue until making a right onto Courtenay Drive.

From Courtenay Drive, walkers make a right on Bee Street and then a right on Ashley Avenue to loop back to the Horseshoe. ! MUSC Lake Loop: This outdoor walk is 1.75 miles round trip and offers scenic views of Cannon Park and

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Moultrie Park, as well as the traditional architecture of downtown Charleston.

Walkers travel from the entrance of the university hospital on Ashley Avenue to Colonial Lake and back on Rutledge Avenue before returning to the hospital via Doughty Street.

Anyone interested in joining the MUSC Moves! walking program should email musc-empwell@musc.edu with preferences for day, time and location (MUSC or other).

Suggestions on walking routes can be found at www.mapmyrun.com. Enter “MUSC Group Walking Program” under the Community/Groups tab or map your own walk.

MUSC Employee Wellness ! Zumba at Harborview Office Tower:

Join licensed Zumba instructor Felecia Curry for a weekly Wednesday night Zumba class held from 5 until 6 p.m., Room 302, Harborview Office Tower.

Zumba is a dance-based aerobic exercise class suitable for any fitness level. Space is limited. Email curryf@musc.edu for more information or to register. ! MUSC Employee Fitness Series: Join Katie Blaylock for a free training class from 4:15 until 4:45 p.m., April 17 in the MUSC Wellness Center. For more information or to register for the class, email musc-empwell@musc.edu. ! Worksite screening: A screening, valued at approximately $350, will be available April 23 in Room 102, Colbert Education Center & Library.

Employees and covered spouses with the State Health Plan will be charged $15.

Employees and spouses without this insurance can participate for $42. The screening includes height, weight, blood pressure and a blood draw for a blood chemistry profile, hemogram, and a blood lipid profile. To register, visit www. musc.edu/employeewellness and click “Worksite Screening Appointment.” ! Push-Up & Up Challenge: In its sixth year, the Push-Up & Up Challenge is a competition on April 13 to see which team can raise the most money and complete the most pushups in 30 minutes. Proceeds support programs in dropout prevention at Communities In Schools of the Charleston Area. To register a team, visit www.pushupandup. org. For more information on MUSC teams, email Susan Johnson, Ph.D., at johnsusa@musc.edu.

/2 @# 3F%F0@ !F"?5@D?$ $5%$FD DFBF5D$A The annual Pinewood Back Nine 5K and one-mile fun run will benefit Chase After a Cure, a non-profit organization that raises money for pediatric cancer research at MUSC. The USATF-certified race will be held at 7:45 a.m. Saturday, April 20 at Legend Oaks Golf & Tennis Club, 118 Legend Oaks Way in Summerville.

If the students of Pinewood Preparatory School reach their fundraising goal of $10,000, Head of School Steve Mandell has committed to shaving his head.

Prizes will be awarded to the top three male and female finishers, plus standard five-year age groups. All finishers in the one-mile fun run will receive a prize.

Packet pickup will be from noon until 6 p.m. Friday, April 19 at Legend Oaks and the morning of the event.

Registration is $30 for the 5K and $15 for the one-mile fun run. Those registering after April 4 will not be guaranteed a T-shirt. To register, visit http://pinewoodbacknine5k.eventbrite. com/. To learn more or donate, visit www.chaseafteracure.com.

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Former chair remembered for encouraging attitude J ohn E. Mahaffey, M.D., died on April 5. Mahaffey was appointed professor and chairman of anesthesiology in 1964.

Mahaffey was Mahaffey born on June 3, 1926, in Lancaster.

He was the son of James Mahaffey and Dora Sally Roberts Mahaffey. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Faustina Mahaffey, and other family.

Mahaffey graduated from Lancaster High School and began college at the University of South Carolina. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946. On his discharge from the U.S. Navy he was diagnosed with inactive tuberculosis, and he completed his degree at USC then entered medical school. He was diagnosed with active tuberculosis at the end of his freshman year and was treated for two years in a sanatorium. He re-entered medical school and graduated from MUSC in 1954.

After completing a residency at Indiana University Medical School, Mahaffey returned to MUSC in 1958 as an instructor and was named acting chairman of the Department of Anesthesia in 1959. He was appointed professor and chairman of the department in 1964. When he retired in 1994, he was the longest-serving anesthesia department chairman in the

United States and was named Professor Emeritus.

Mahaffey started MUSC’s respiratory therapy program in 1963 and the School for Nurse Anesthetists in 1965. He also started the Pain Management Program.

According to Jerry Reves, M.D., dean emeritus of the College of Medicine, Mahaffey created a legacy of anesthesiologists. “He was one of the early anesthesia chairmen and one of the longest serving, which attests to his ability and the enormous legacy of anesthesiologists that he created for our state and nation.”

Mahaffey served as president of the South Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists, was a board member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and held memberships in 44 national medical organizations.

In 2008, in recognition of his contributions to the field of anesthesiology and to MUSC, he was honored with The John E. Mahaffey, MD Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology, the highest award a university can bestow upon a faculty member.

He enjoyed spending time with his family, fishing, driving his boat on the Ashley River and following his South Carolina Gamecocks. He will be remembered for his calm demeanor, encouraging attitude and his conviction to bring out the best in others.

Contributions may be made to The John E. Mahaffey Endowed Chair at MUSC, 18 Bee St., Charleston, S.C., 29425.

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Relearning to speak, eat without a tongue Cancer survivor pursues speech therapy future with new challenges relearning to speak.

“The cancer was a major Public Relations concern for me because, rior to being diagnosed ironically, my major is with tongue cancer speech therapy. I was really at the age of 24 last year, upset about that,” Howard Aliyah Howard had dreams said. “Talking to my speech of becoming a speech pathologist here, I asked pathologist. She graduated her ‘How am I going to be from Columbia College able to find a job sounding with a bachelor’s degree like this?’ She said I’d have in speech pathology and to use this disadvantage was pursuing her master’s as an advantage and be an degree at South Carolina advocate for the patients.

State University when That made sense. You squamous cell carcinoma can’t help but think this forced MUSC surgeons to happened for a good remove her tongue. reason.”

She endured six weeks of Her voice sounds different chemotherapy and radiation than what it was before. after surgery while learning Some words are harder to to speak and swallow again understand than others, with only and some sounds don’t a small come out just right, like portion those associated with of tissue “str” and “skr.” But she’s that was connecting with patients in removed a whole new way. from her “We work with people shoulder who have a lot of voice Howard blade to problems, because act as a tongue placeholder. something is wrong with Since September 2012, their thyroid, they’ve Howard has been canceroverused their voice or free and back to work on are just not hydrated her master’s degree. Instead enough. We also work of staying in Columbia, with people who have she chose to do her field swallowing problems so we work at MUSC under the do swallowing X-ray tests to direction of the same speech see the inside of the throat,” pathologist who guided Howard said. “The patients her through the process of find me interesting and

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want to know what happened.”

Julie Blair, a speech language pathologist who Howard worked with as a patient and now during her field work, said Howard was reluctant to talk to her family and friends initially but has helped patients get past that fear.

Julie Blair, a speech language pathologist, points at a video of a “Cancer patients, patient swallowing as Aliyah Howard, a Columbia College particularly, have B@>"F%@ "#?%C AFD 0F8" (#D9 5@ .6:-, #3BFD<FB+ found her story MUSC staff confirming it. her abdomen. She also is reassuring. Most of them, because she is one of working with a maxillofacial She also didn’t realize how much the chemotherapy prosthetic dentist for a our younger patients, are and radiation would slow customized prosthesis that surprised to hear she’s had her down. It took nearly a would help her swallow cancer and gone through month after treatment for food easier. the treatment,” Blair said. the 25-year-old to finally feel “I don’t eat a standard “They’re encouraged by the her age again. fact that she has come as far meal. On Thanksgiving, I “Cancer is terrible but you had macaroni, cranberry as she has.” see things differently. You sauce and sweet potatoes, Eating has always been a appreciate life, as a whole, challenge since her 15-hour but no meat,” she said. so much better. I was in the glossectomy (removal of the “With the prosthesis, I’m hospital for nine days, and hoping to be able to have tongue) back in June. It’s moving around was tough the feeding tube removed. far harder for her to swallow The prosthesis kind of looks for me,” said Howard. food and liquid than a like a retainer that would sit “Simple things like that, like person with a working in the top of my mouth and walking around outside in tongue. But she doesn’t let the fresh air, mean so much help push the food back to the extra effort get in her more to me. The small the throat.” way. She chops her food things in life are now more Howard also struggled into smaller pieces and special.” with the initial diagnosis drinks lots of smoothies.

Now that she has gone and the radiation. She If she doesn’t have time through the process and said there was a “really to sit down and eat each survived cancer, Howard long, depressing seven meal slowly, Howard is learning to relate to her days” between her ENT must supplement her diet suspecting cancer and the with a feeding tube in See TONGUE on page 8

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MEET JIMMY

James P. New, PharmD Department Pharmacy Services How long at MUSC 8 1/2 years (4 years in school, 2 years in residency and 2 1/2 years in this position) How you are changing what’s possible at MUSC Teaching and standing up for the principles of evidence-based medicine as it applies to the prudent use of medications What music is in your player The Cordovans (a local Charleston band) Unique talent People say I am a good dancer. I came in second place in a dance contest during an 80s block party event held by Piccolo Spoleto a few years back.

Dream job Retirement Who in history would you like to meet Francis of Assissi. He had such an interesting story of committing his life for )$' ('"'#) !& !)$'+*% Favorite quote “No, it won’t all go the way it should, but I know the heart of life is good.”

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Make it happen

BY JEAN CECIL FRICK Of South Carolina Business

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f you know the lyrics to the song, “Oh Happy Day,” you know it is a song of rejoicing. If your child was diagnosed with cancer, needless to say, you would not feel like rejoicing. However, if your child is in need of a bone marrow transplant, you would be given new hope with a treatment available in South Carolina, thus allowing for a truly happy day.

One of the providers of that hope is Michelle Hudspeth, M.D., a pediatric oncologist at MUSC Children’s Hospital. Hudspeth is the director of the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program – the only one of its kind in the state.

A PASSION FOR PEDIATRICS Hudspeth grew up in South Carolina and has deep family roots in the Palmetto State. As a child, she knew she had the keen desire to enter pediatrics and recalls her father saying she would become a doctor one day.

In fact, she is the only person in her family to ever go into the medical field, and it is a passion she takes very seriously.

She enrolled at Wofford College in Spartanburg for undergraduate school and went on to MUSC where she graduated at the top of her class. Hudspeth’s success led her to a pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland.

At Johns Hopkins, she was honored by her colleagues with the David M. Kamsler Award for excellence and compassion in pediatric care. She also served as chief resident for the Johns Hopkins Harriet Lane Service, where she oversaw 80 pediatric residents and wrote chapters on hematology, immunology and oncology for the Harriet Lane Handbook, a best-selling pediatric guide.

In short, South Carolina was lucky to have Hudspeth return to her roots.

Hudspeth was recruited to MUSC in 2007 to lead and expand the stem cell transplant program. By 2008, the number of pediatric transplants had increased by 125 percent.

“The children of South Carolina are very lucky that one of our own, Dr. Michelle Hudspeth, a South

photo by Sandy Andrews

According to Dr. Michelle Hudspeth children in South Carolina should not have to go out of state to get the best care. Hudspeth is passionate about connecting with her patients.

Carolina native, returned to South Carolina and MUSC to provide the very best care for children with cancer,” said Rita Ryan, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics at MUSC Children’s Hospital.

“Not only is she personally committed to this goal but she has built and is continuing to build and lead, frankly, a ‘top-tier’ A-plus pediatric oncology program that will serve our state and its children very well,” Ryan continued. “For example we are the only site in South Carolina that does pediatric bone marrow transplants and Michelle has now recruited a new faculty member, Dr. Amy-Lee Bredlau, who is a specialist in pediatric neuro-oncology and will lead our Pediatric Brain Tumor Program.”

MUSC Children’s Hospital is award-winning and has consistently been ranked in the U.S. News & World Report listing for the best children’s hospitals.

Most recently, it was one of 80 facilities that made the rankings in at least one of the 10 specialties analyzed for the 2012 – 13 Best Children's Hospitals with rankings for cardiology and heart surgery as well as gastroenterology. There is no doubt that with the dedication of Hudspeth, hematology and oncology will one day be included as well.

Childhood cancer is the No. 1 cause of death from disease in children in the Unites States, more than from asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies and pediatric AIDS combined. It is the second leading cause of death in children overall, after accidents.

One of the biggest determinants of a child’s survival after a bone marrow transplant is their socioeconomic status, regardless of race. Twenty-four percent of all South Carolina children are below the poverty level, 28 percent in the Charleston region alone. South Carolina ranks ninth out of 50 states for the highest percentage of children living in poverty.

These statistics shouldn’t prevent a child from getting the critical care they need in their home state, and they don’t. It is a huge sacrifice for families when they are faced with a sick child and numerous days in the hospital. If they had to go out of state, they risk not getting reimbursed under another state’s Medicaid and furthermore they would have costly travel expenses.

There are approximately 75 new childhood cancer diagnoses seen annually at MUSC. Hudspeth treats between 25 and 30 patients a year with a blood or marrow transplant, and her division has served patients from 74 percent of the counties in South Carolina.

BEATING THE ODDS

PROVIDING NEW HOPE

Hudspeth said, “Kids in South Carolina should not have to go out of state to get the best care.”

She couldn’t have said it better.

Her enthusiasm for the children she treats is

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Fellowships to enhance interprofessionalism offered Applications are being accepted for the Maralynne D. Mitcham Interprofessional Fellowship for faculty and professional staff.

The purpose of the fellowship is to prepare faculty and staff to successfully assume new roles in interprofessional education, research, practice or administration. The program seeks to foster a new generation of people who demonstrate interprofessional competencies that span multiple

disciplines and contests. The fellowship period will be from July 1 to June 30, 2014.

Two fellowships will be awarded per year, and each fellowship provides funding in the amount of $5,000.

Applications should include a letter of intent, two letters of support and curriculum vitae, and be received by April 26. For information on the fellowship, visit http://goo.gl/7ib1q or contact Amy Leaphart, leaphara@musc.edu.

HAPPEN Continued from Page Six contagious. On the day we met, she had just wrapped up meeting with a patient who was going through his second bone marrow transplant, and she had promised him a bag of Skittles. As soon as she left our visit, she went straight to the sundry shop to take her patient his surprise.

If a child goes through a bone marrow transplant to treat cancer, there is a 100-day minimum stay within 30 minutes of the hospital. A child is most at risk for complications during this timeframe. Typically, the first four to six weeks are spent in the hospital. Imagine the strain that puts on families, but with care from doctors like Hudspeth, it makes daily life bearable.

Day Zero, or transplant day, is the day a child receives donated cells, wiping out his or her immune system. It is a transfusion with what Hudspeth refers to as a “little bag of hope.”

For many, this could be a day of fear and anxiety, but Hudspeth makes it a day of hope and tells children it is their new birthday – a day of rejoicing and singing “Happy Day Zero.”

Hudspeth said, “Day Zeros are the best part of my job. It is a new chance at life for the children I treat, offering them a renewed hope.”

The Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program offers a number of clinical trials through the Children’s Oncology Group, the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium, the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network, as well as investigator-initiated trials.

MUSC Children’s Hospital is a member of the Children’s Oncology Group, the world’s premier pediatric cancer research collaborative. This network of more than 200 hospitals and 5,000 health care professionals is dedicated to finding answers and sharing results to cure cancer. COG members have been the primary innovators in new treatments for children with cancer.

FINDING THE PERFECT MATCH Another important part of providing a transplant is finding a tissue type or HLA match. Within families, a brother or sister only has a 25 percent chance of being

a match. It can be especially challenging for minorities, as matches tend to run along ethnic lines and fewer minorities participate in donor programs. For most, the best chance at survival is a transplant from an unrelated bone marrow donor or cord blood unit. Hudspeth looks at millions of donors across the world through the National Marrow Donor Program.

She doesn’t take looking for matches lightly.

Knowing there is a tremendous need for more donors, Hudspeth decided to add her name to the national registry. Shortly after giving birth to her daughter, she was notified that she was a match for a 50-year-old mother of three in Philadelphia. Hudspeth became a giver of life to two people that year, practicing what she preaches.

Hudspeth’s motto is “make it happen” and MUSC’s outcomes prove that she exceeds all expectations. The program has outcomes well above the national averages.

In 2012, her patients had a 100 percent survival rate on both Day 100 and on their one year anniversaries for those receiving autologous stem cells. There was an 88 percent survival rate on Day 100 and 85 percent on one year anniversaries for those receiving allogeneic stem cells.

Having a world-class children’s hospital keeps South Carolina on the leading edge. As businesses look to locate in the state, the medical community can be proud knowing it offers the best care available to the state’s children and their families.

“To be able to provide this level of care to the state without families having to travel outside, I think, is a really critical mission,” Hudspeth states. “Our goal is really to provide them with any cutting-edge therapy they need that we can provide here and they don’t have to travel elsewhere.”

For any family faced with cancer, there is fear, but Hudspeth is passionate about providing hope and making it happen for the children of South Carolina.

Editor’s note: Jean Cecil Frick is the multimedia manager at the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and the editor of South Carolina Business. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2013 edition of South Carolina Business magazine and is reprinted with permission.

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TONGUE

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patients and show them what they can accomplish. She will be a guest speaker at various local schools during Oral Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Week, April 14 – 20, and plans to attend several events.

“She’s a special case. I joke that Aliyah is the poster child for what can be accomplished after a glossectomy,” Blair said. “She brings a unique perspective to the clinic.

When I’m telling patients about what they’re likely to experience, I’m telling it from a clinician’s perspective. When Aliyah is talking, she’s giving a personal experience.

Just like in a support group setting, patients take a lot of comfort in knowing that right now their mouth hurts, their face is swollen and they’re in pain but it will get better. The hole in their neck will close and go away. It’s scary for

Oral Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Week events ! April 16 - 17: School discussions across Charleston County ! April 18: Research conference ! April 19: Free oral cancer screenings will be provided on the 10th floor of Rutledge Tower from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. in Dr. Betsy Davis’ clinic. ! April 19: Head and Neck Cancer Awareness banquet for survivors and their family members at the Charleston Yacht Club from 6 until 9 p.m. ! April 27: Grins & Fins boat poker run hosted by College of Dental Medicine students ! Sept. 14: Cancer is a Beach 5K Memorial Run/Walk at Sullivan’s Island

them, but Aliyah helps with that.”

For more information about Oral Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Week, visit headandneck.org.

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EVERY $1 ADDS UP

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LOG A LOAD SUPPORTS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

During a name plaque unveiling at Darby Children’s Research Institute Laboratory, Dr. Carol Wagner, a neonatologist and researcher, center, recognizes S.C. loggers and wood-supplying businesses for their cummulative fundraising of more than $350,000. Much of it was collected through the annual Log A Load Klays for Kids tournament.

The next Klays for Kids fundraiser is April 20 at the Backwoods Quail Club near Georgetown.

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