Kids summer safety topic of community program

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center and the WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus will sponsor a community mini-medical school program on summer safety for kids.

The seminar will be held at 7 p.m. on May 15 in the auditorium of the Health Sciences Center on the Berkeley Medical Center campus. Guest speakers Scott Vascik, M.D., Sarah Moerschel, M.D., and Rafka Chaiban, M.D., will discuss sun and water safety; lumps and bumps; caring for minor wounds, including when to go to the emergency department; dehydration; heat stroke; and food safety.

Dr. Vascik, Dr. Moerschel, and Dr. Chaiban are all pediatricians with WVU Medicine, and are on faculty at the WVU School of Medicine. A Q&A discussion will follow the presentation.  

Registration for the mini-medical school program and the Eastern Pylons History of Medicine lecture begins at 6:15 p.m. This month’s Pylons Lecture, "History of Aristotle - Embryologist," will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will feature James Brown, M.D., assistant dean, WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus. The mini-medical school program will follow at 7 p.m.

The mini-medical school program is being offered free to the public as a community service of WVU Medicine and the WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus. The Pylons Lecture Series has been made possible in part by a grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council.