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JFS is excited to partner with Jewish Experiences and the Jewish Book Council to welcome Adam Stern, MD as our guest for the November 17 edition of the Acclaimed Authors Series.
Adam Stern, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Psychiatry at BIDMC’s Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation. He has written extensively about his experiences as a physician in several publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The American Journal of Psychiatry. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he appeared on CNN as a psychiatric expert.
Adam recently released his book, Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training. The memoir brings readers along with Stern during his residency, as he and his fellow doctors’ work rounds in psychiatric wards, grapple with impostor syndrome, navigate their personal lives, and experience love and loss. Stern pulls back the curtain of what it’s like to be a doctor tasked with healing the mind. This memoir celebrates human connection through the eyes of a new doctor.
Our own Sondra Wallace, JFS’s Director of Mental Health Services, will moderate the conversation. This edition of the Acclaimed Author Series is a hybrid event. Register here to attend!
Did you know that each month, Jewish Family Services provides more than 800 families with food and non-perishable items through the two locations of its food pantry? Food drives help ensure our guests have a wide variety of items to select from and keep expenses down.
While JFS is happy to accept any shelf-stable food or personal care items, the most needed things for December are crackers, canned chili, cooking oil, peanut butter, and sweet and salty snacks. On Sunday, December 18, 2022, from 10 a.m. to Noon, JFS will hold its monthly community-wide food drive at the Jewish Community Center campus. Please drop off donations with volunteers who will be located in the front circle drive.
Donations can also be dropped off in the JFS barrel in the Jewish Community Campus lobby during business hours or at the Brookside office with an appointment by calling 913-327-8250. Donors may also purchase items for the food pantry directly through the JFS Pantry Wish List on Amazon.