BULLETIN - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
If you weren't able to attend Friday's meeting, you missed a good one! Catch up on everything here.
Today’s Program – September 7, 2018Dr. Samir Patel, Chief of Diagnostic Imaging at Guelph General Hospital, spoke about the use of advanced imaging technology to diagnose and treat injury and illness.
See below for more details.
Next Week's Program – September 14, 2018
Will be at the ICC as always but, our guest speaker, Dr. John Tibbits, President of Conestoga College, has to attend a prior comittment so he will begin his presentation at 12:15pm and lunch will follow afterwards.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, September 12 at 6pm – Rotary Club of Guelph’s annual BBQ at Bob Ireland’s home. Purchase your $15 tickets from Ruth Thatcher.
Saturday, September 29 at 6pm - Rotary Club of Guelph's annual LobsterFest dinner at the ICC. Tickets are $100pp and are available from Rosemary Clark or Luisa Del Rosario.
Today’s Guests
Jaya James welcomed four guests: Rob Cameron, guest of Chris Willard; Sandra MacKenzie, from Inverness in Scotland, guest of Jim MacKenzie; Kevin Lynch, guest of Peter McSherry; and Paul Lindhauer, guest of Mahmud Hassain.
Announcements
Paul Dredge made four announcements; (1) Next Friday’s meeting will have a changed running order. Our guest speaker is Dr. John Tibbits, President of Conestoga College, and he will give his presentation at 12:15pm as he has to leave for another appointment. Lunch will be at 12:45pm followed by the remainder of normal meeting agenda items; (2) The 2018-19 Budget Meeting was held on September 4, and on September 17, the Board will meet to ratify it; (3) Ruth Thatcher was recently hospitalized but she insisted to Paul that “I am fine now”. Interestingly, Ruth used the “Lifeline” emergency system to alert medical personnel when she fell ill. “Lifeline” was a Rotary initiative; (4) finally, Paul announced the resignation of member Ken Hammill due to personal and family health issues.
Terrie Jarvis gave an update of the Food4Kids in Guelph Program. The first food delivery of the new school year was made today and the goal of this year’s program is to feed 90 local children every school weekend until next June.
Randy Wilson appealed for volunteers to assist at this year’s LobsterFest. There are a variety of tasks to be done and most of them require only a one or two hour commitment. These include setting up the cooking equipment on Friday, cooking the lobsters on Saturday evening and cleaning up on Sunday morning.
Ab Moore had a sad story to relate regarding Cameroon and the water wells and water filtering projects we are supporting. The local secretary of the water project was shot and killed recently and it has been blamed on the Francophone versus Anglophone conflicts currently occurring throughout the country.
Bonnie Evans asked for help in filling the Wine Wheelbarrow which is one of the main live auction items at LobsterFest. She asked members to consider either donating a bottle of wine of making a donation in lieu of a bottle.
Peter McSherry and Bev Trist-Stewart reminded members to buy their $15pp tickets for the annual club BBQ at Bob Ireland’s home on September 12.
New Member:
Sean Yo was introduced as our newest member by his sponsor, Carolyn Weatherson.
Sean is a past recipient of the Rotary Youth Award for Leadership, he has a Master’s Degree from the University of Guelph and is a past recipient of the Guelph “40 Under 40 Award” award. He is married to Jennifer, his high school sweetheart, and he has two daughters, Gwendoline and Lillian. He and his family live in Puslinch.
Presentation:
Dr. Samir Patel, Chief of Diagnostic Imaging at Guelph General Hospital
Ranjit Singh introduced Dr. Patel. Samir lives in Mississauga, is married with two daughters and is a Board Member of the Hospital’s Foundation.
Samir’s presentation covered the remarkable strides in innovation and technology in diagnostic imaging in medicine. The modern radiologist uses a wide range of highly innovative equipment to diagnose and treat illness.
Samir used real-life examples to illustrate how imaging technology provides a more accurate and clearer diagnoses of a patient’s condition. While he was talking, Samir circulated a biopsy needle, and a catheter used for removing blood clots, for the audience to examine.
One amazing example was that of a 72-year old man who suffered a stroke due to a blood clot in his brain. Samir’s department used a CT scan and a CT angiogram, to locate the site of the clot. Then using a quite different, but just as critical, technology - a video call – they were able to share their imaging results with a neurologist working in another hospital which is what they refer to as their “Telestroke” program. The patient underwent clot retrieval surgery where a catheter containing a needle on a wire was inserted in an artery and used to break up the clot and restore normal blood circulation to the brain. The most remarkable part of the story was that the patient, who had total paralysis on one side of his body, fully recovered and was back to his pre-stroke activities within a few hours after the surgery.
Samir thanked Rotary for it’s generous donations and said that one out of every two dollars needed by the hospital comes from fundraising and donations are used exclusively by the hospital to purchase their imaging equipment.
Fred Ramprashad thanked Samir for an interesting and informative presentation and presented him with a certificate of thanks stating that, in his name, Rotary has made a donation that will vaccinate 100 children against polio.
50/50 Draw
Won by Sharon Rice
