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EVMS plans 23rd annual King Day ceremony — Eastern Virginia Medical School will host its 23rd annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day January 16 at the medical school's Norfolk campus. Dr. Kim W. Brown, senior pastor at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church in Chesapeake, will give the keynote address. The program begins at 6 p.m. in McCombs auditorium in EVMS Lewis Hall, 700 West Olney Road. Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

Working together for a tobacco-free campus — The Eastern Virginia Medical Center — home to Eastern Virginia Medical School, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, the Norfolk Public Health Department and Sentara Norfolk General Hospital — is now a Tobacco-Free Environment. As of January 1, 2009, smoking and tobacco products are not permitted anywhere in the medical center campus, including sidewalks and parking lots. All EVMS satellite offices also are included in the tobacco ban. Read more.

Students distribute donated coats — EVMS students handed out hundreds of coats this year to children and families through the annual Coats for Kids drive. At right, first-year medical student Christina Funari helps Triahna Hines. The coat drive is now in its 21st year.

Foundation supports cancer research — Representatives of the Coach Ray Barlow "Believe in Yourself" Foundation visited the EVMS campus recently to support EVMS prostate cancer research. From left are Steve Earp, Tiny Barlow (widow of Ray Barlow), Jim Hazlett and EVMS cancer researcher O. John Semmes, PhD.

The $10,000 donation represents the proceeds of a golf tournament held in memory of Barlow, an inspirational high school baseball coach who died of prostate cancer. To learn more about the Barlow Foundation, visit www.coachraybarlow.com.


Harry T. Lester President	Gerald J. Pepe, Ph.D. Dean and Provost

EVMS leaders describe vision for school's future — Eastern Virginia Medical School President Harry T. Lester and Dean Gerald J. Pepe, Ph.D., outlined the school's remarkable progress over its first 35 years and their vision for the years ahead during the 2008 State of the School Address on Wednesday.

President Lester highlighted the impact of the school's strengthened relationship with the Commonwealth of Virginia and community partners, and Dean Pepe touted the ever-strengthening faculty of clinicians and researchers who vigorously pursue EVMS' core missions of teaching, discovering and caring.

Read the full text of their remarks:
President Harry T. Lester
Dean and Provost Gerald J. Pepe, Ph.D.

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