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New business workshop is today

Section: Business

John Pope

A free workshop to help people who are considering launching their own businesses will be held today at 6 p.m. in Building 43 at Southern University at New Orleans' Lake Campus, 6801 Press Drive.

Sponsored by SUNO's Small Business Development and Management Institute, the session, called "Show Me the Money," will feature Monica Baugh of JP Morgan Chase Bank, Eleria Hunter of the federal Small Business Administration and Roy Mack of Louisiana Economic Development, a state agency.

Although the seminar is free, registration is required because seating is limited. People may register and get information by calling (504) 284-5512.

Health-care seminar is set

Improving access to health care will be the theme of a daylong seminar that Louisiana State University's Health Care Services Division will offer Tuesday in Baton Rouge.

The annual conference, which is free to the public, will start at 9 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Select, 4728 Constitution Ave., and is sponsored by the division of LSU that runs the state's charity hospital network.

Dr. Ron Anderson, president and chief executive officer of the Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, will speak on the importance of making preventive medicine a component of health care for everyone. His lecture is named for Dr. Merv Trail, who was chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans from June 1994 until his death in January 2001.

More information about the meeting is available from Marvin McGraw, the spokesman for the Health Care Services Division, at mmcgra@lsuhsc.edu or (225) 922-1424.

Role in rebuilding is topic

The role community-based organizations can play in rebuilding cities will be the topic of a free program the University of New Orleans will offer Thursday.

The session, which will be open to the public, will start at 6 p.m. in the third-floor Gravier Room in UNO's Downtown Center at 226 Carondelet St. It is part of a series of evenings on rebuilding cities that UNO is sponsoring with the Rockefeller Foundation Redevelopment Fellowship.

Speakers in Thursday's program will be Lauren Anderson, executive of Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans, and Jim Capraro, a consultant who is the founding executive director of the Greater Southwest Community Development Corp.

The other events in the series will be held Jan. 24 and Feb. 7 and 21. Topics will be "Innovative Mayors and Redevelopment: The Pittsburgh Story," "Building a For-Profit Business of Urban Redevelopment" and "Government as Entrepreneur: System Change in Bureaucracy."

Open house set for clinic

An open house to show off the new physical therapy clinic at LSU Health Sciences Center and to let people ask questions about this specialty will be held Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The clinic is in Room 7A16 at 1900 Gravier St.

Services are available for orthopedic, neurological and cancer patients. The staff also provides help for an array of issues pertaining to women's health, such as pelvic-floor pain and breast cancer, as well as preventive activities and evaluations of devices such as wheelchairs.

Information is available at (504) 568-4042.

Regents' chairman installed

Pat Strong of Franklin was installed Thursday as this year's chairman of the state Board of Regents.

The other officers are Artis Terrell of Shreveport, vice chairman, and Robert Levy of Ruston, secretary. They also are members of the board's Executive Committee, along with Scott Brame of Alexandria, Clinton "Bubba" Rasberry Jr. of Shreveport, Mary Ellen Roy of New Orleans and Harold Stokes of Metairie.

The regents plan, coordinate and have budgetary responsibility for the state-run institutions of higher learning. Because the regents make policy, they aren't involved in the schools' day-to-day activities.

Mass to honor priest

A Jan. 23 Mass at Our Lady of Holy Cross College will celebrate the feast day of the French priest who founded the order of nuns that established the Algiers school.

The noon Mass honoring the Rev. Basil Anthony Moreau will be held in the center bearing his name. It is open to the public.

People interested in attending may contact Christopher Rholdon, the college's director of alumni and parent relations, at crholdon@olhcc.edu or (504) 398-2279.

Moreau established the Marianites of Holy Cross in 1841 in Le Mans, France. The order founded Our Lady of Holy Cross College in 1916.

Moreau, who died in 1873 in Le Mans, has been beatified by the Catholic Church after a miracle was attributed to his intercession. Proof of one more miracle is required for sainthood.

Honors:

-- Dr. Charles Cefalu, chief of geriatric medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center, has been named clinical adviser of the year for 2007 by Louisiana Health Care Review, which the federal government has appointed to monitor Medicare activities in the state.

-- Rick Gratia, owner of Muriel's Jackson Square restaurant, has been named chairman of the advisory board of UNO's Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Administration.

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