We had a very successful event co-sponsored by CLC (Chicago Lebanese Club) . The health seminar was attended by 54 people of all ages at Maza Restaurant on Sunday November 13 at 2:30pm. Topics discussed ranged from children's emotional health, pediatric health maintenance, and women's health maintenance. Many thanks to the speakers who sacrificed their time and weekend to educate the Lebanese community on such important topics related to their family's health. Pictures from the event will be available soon on our updated website www.almamater.org under Chicago local chapter section. The speakers were Dr. Susan Gervers, Dr. George Farah, and myself. We hope to do more of these educational events (at least annually or biannually) to give back to our community.
Upcoming meetings.We will have a meeting in January with further details to be announced soon. Nominations and elections for the upcoming 2006 Executive committee will be held at that time. If you are interested in playing a more active role in the direction of the Chicago Chapter of ALMA ? consider running for one of these positions. They include President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer.Membership feesIt was decided by the Executive Committee to have an annual membership fee which would include 4 dinner meetings (dinners included of course) for the whole year along with the chapter fee for a total of $125 annual fee starting January 2006. Doctors ProfilesIf you are interested in posting your profile on ALMA website www.almamater.org , please email Farid Abboud (Our website coordinator) at farid@almamater.org The fee is $50 and part of the proceeds will go towards benefiting our local chapter. (Please mail your checks to Nadia Yammine)ALMA National Meeting.Please check latest updated Info on our website www.almamater.org. The annual meeting will be held on Feb 24-26 in Las Vegas honoring Dr. Debakey and Dr. Salem. I encourage you
to register and attend this meeting . The registration information is found on www.almamater.org/registration2.htm. receive up to 8 CME credits.
NON-ALMA SPONSORED EVENTS: December 10th Phoenician Club of Chicago?s Annual Christmas Party & Awards/Installation Banquet.. They will be honoring Humanitarian - Man of the year, Dr. Aref Senno. The party will be held on 12/10 at Marriott Hotel, 1500 Opus place, Downers Grove, IL. 6:30 cocktails followed by dinner at 7:30pm (cost members $15, nonmembers $35).
Make reservations with Jackie Haddad at 630-941-9388, or George Dandan 708-306-6393.