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Vol. 26 Issue 71 fiusm.com Friday, March 6, 2015 FIU medical school ROSENBERG HIM-SELFIE programs help local communities NATALIE ALATRISTE cancer at this stage in these underserved Staff Writer South Florida communities is 54 percent. [email protected] “We don’t care that they don’t have insurance. We don’t care that they’re not Since its opening in 2006, the citizens. All we want to do is provide them University’s Herbert Wertheim College with mammograms and be as efficient as of Medicine has implemented programs possible in helping [the community],” that benefit the local community and give said Lorraine Nowakowski, program students a hands-on opportunity to learn. director for all clinical initiatives at One staple of the medical school is the NeighborhoodHELP. Green Family Foundation Neighborhood The mobile mammography unit has a Health Education Learning Program, also mammogram station and two changing known as NeighborhoodHELP. stations. The mammograms use a machine According to its website, the program that uses digital tomosynthesis, which provides service-learning opportunities to creates a three-dimensional image of students, through which the students can the breast. Compared to the traditional apply basic supervised medical care to two-dimensional approach, tomosynthesis patients in the program. is a newer option that more efficiently finds With the use of mobile health centers, masses in the breast and gives less false NeighborhoodHELP provides weekly, cost- positives. free care to underprivileged communities The Braman Family Foundation in Miami. donated $1.1 million to make this initiative The mobile medical units are 38-foot possible, according to John Rock, dean of vans, fully equipped with a laboratory and the College of Medicine. two examination rooms for patients. These The program is named after Linda health centers venture to different local Fenner, who died at 54 of breast cancer areas, such as Miami Gardens and Hialeah and is the sister-in-law of Norman Braman, from Monday to Thursday. founder of the Braman Family Foundation. The program provides services such The donated amount was matched by the as routine physicals, adult vaccinations, Batchelor Foundation, which has funded disease management and screening, health other University entities in the past, such education and WellCare. as the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum In November 2014, the program of Science. PHOTO COURTESY OF @FIU ON TWITTER launched a new branch to its existing “The NeighborhoodHELP was very President Mark B. Rosenberg takes a picture with Wednesday’s edition of program—the Linda Fenner 3-D Mobile excited about this program to help women the Beacon to prove to students that he was answering questions during the Mammography Center. This facility’s gain access to preventative care,” said #askrosenberg Twitter event on March 4. From 3 to 4:30 pm, Rosenberg initiative is to help control the South Rock. “We had a wonderful visionary in answered student questions via the @FIU Twitter. Florida breast cancer rate. the community, Norman Braman… who The national average of women finding helped make this operation [possible].” still in more of a trial process before the students have raised $50,000. implementing a fit schedule, as the general Alfredo Armas, a second-year medical NeighborhoodHELP mobile centers student at the University and member of currently have. MAI, hopes to make a difference. In last Students have not yet joined the year’s fundraiser, Armas recruited artists We don’t care that they don’t have insurance. We don’t care program. Once there’s a system in play, for the show and even submitted some of that they’re not citizens. All we want to do is provide them students will slowly start to be able to join, his work. with mammograms and be as efficient as said Nowakowski. He and other students look forward to possible in helping [the community.] However, students have addressed the working with the mammography bus. issue by establishing the Mammography “The 3-D mammography van not only Lorraine Nowakowski Art Initiative, an organization to help raise raises health awareness in South Florida, Program Director, Clinical Initiatives money for breast health services in South but it also provides mammograms directly NeighborhoodHELP Florida. The organization was founded to many women in the community that three years ago. might otherwise not have ready access to breast cancer at a late stage—stages three Since the program is new, the For the last two years, students have put healthcare, and this is a beautiful thing,” and four—is at about 37 percent. The mobile unit has only gone out a handful together a fundraiser by collecting artwork Armas said. average rate for women finding breast of times. Nowakowski said they’re from local artists for an auction. Thus far, Panel to hold discussion on immigration reform the Cold War. set up a discussion panel to explore continued barriers to freedom that perspectives of these relations. ALESSANDRA VASQUEZ The move, following 18 months the relations between Cuba and the remain for ordinary Cubans,” and The panel will host four speakers, Contributing Writer of secret negotiations, fulfilled one of United States and the immigration that he was convinced that “through including Archbishop Thomas [email protected] President Obama’s key second-term reform. a policy of engagement, we can more Wenski from the Archdiocese of goals. “These 50 years have shown that effectively stand up for our values Miami; Helen Aguirre Ferré, an Last year in December, the Following the Dec. 17 isolation has not worked,” Obama and help the Cuban people help award-winning journalist covering United States and Cuba ended more announcement that called for the said in a televised address, according themselves.” topics in the Hispanic community; than a half-century of aversion revision of the relations between to the Washington Post. “It’s time for For many states, this sparked the Gepsie Metellus, executive director and announced that they would the two countries, the Center for a new approach.” discussion on immigration reform. at Sant La Haitian Neighborhood reestablish diplomatic relations and Humanities in an Urban Environment The president also said that he Now the University is bringing a begin dismantling the last pillar of and the Cuban Research Institute was “under no illusion about the panel to further discuss the different SEE CUBA, PAGE 2 2 The Beacon – Friday, March 6, 2015 NEWS fiusm.com NATION & WORLD Service to be held for late BRIEFS University staff member ADRIAN SUAREZ AVILA South Florida, where in which restaurant gift News Director she spent some time in a certificates will be offered Supreme Court wades into dispute over online [email protected] medically-induced coma. She alongside a sculpture by artist retailers and state taxes passed away after suffering Romero Britto and other A memorial event will be complications in late February. items, according to Jennifer. Online merchants won an may not have a physical presence held to honor the memory of a “[Analise] touched a lot The memorial is sponsored important technical victory at in some states, the Web has, in University staff member who of lives in a lot of different by the Unbridled Spirit the Supreme Court on Tuesday, many ways, brought the average passed away on Friday, Feb. ways,” Jennifer said. Society, an organization that empowering them to challenge American closer to most major 27. In the memorandum, it seeks to provide the means state sales tax reporting retailers,” Justice Anthony A memorandum was sent is mentioned that Dlugasch of assistance to families and requirements in federal court. Kennedy noted, adding that “a by Trudy Fernandez, director is survived by her mother individuals through equine Rejecting the pleas of connection to a shopper’s favorite of Human Resources relations, and father, Lucie and association, according to the two dozen states including store is a click away.” to University faculty and staff Philip Dlugasch, a clinical organization’s web page. Idaho, Texas, Mississippi States, in turn, have been on March 1 to inform them of associate professor in the According to Jennifer, and Washington, the court vexed by their difficulty in the event. Nicole Wertheim College of a portion of the proceeds unanimously sided with online collecting sales taxes from Analise Dlugasch, who Nursing & Health Sciences, will go toward educating companies that favor federal court Internet commerce. California, commenced her career at the and a doctoral student at the restaurant personnel how to as the place to dispute state tax Kennedy observed, has estimated University in August 2010 University, respectively. be better prepared to handle laws. The decision foreshadows that it is only able to collect about working as a student assistant, She is also survived by her choking and other emergency future legal fights relating to the 4 percent of the taxes due on earned her master’s degree sisters Lauren and Nicole, and situations.