*) Thyroid Cancer Patients Support Group meetings are now being held once a month. Please contact office and ask Megan for the next scheduled meeting.

Our support group has been published to the ThyCa website.  Check it out at http://thyca.org/sg/nj_neptune.htm. 

Jersey Shore University Medical Center to Hold Inaugural Thyroid Cancer Support Group Meeting

Neptune, NJ- A new thyroid cancer support group begins on October 3, 2011 from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. at Jersey Shore University Medical Center.  Attendance is free and open to anyone affected by the disease including thyroid cancer patients and survivors, along with their family and friends.  The support group will be held in the Medical Staff Board Room at Jersey Shore University Medical Center located at 1945 Route 33 in Neptune.    

The theme of the first meeting will be ‘Living with Thyroid Cancer.’  During the meeting participants may share their own experiences and offer insight on how they are dealing with thyroid cancer. In following meetings, participants will be joined by speakers from surgery, endocrinology, radiology and speech therapy who will touch on various topics in the treatment and care of thyroid cancer patients.  

The thyroid cancer support group is being facilitated by thyroid cancer survivor, Donald L. Winters, R.Ph., MPA, OCR Manager/Research Pharmacist, from the Meridian Health Office of Clinical Research.  This group is also being supported by Alexander Shifrin, MD and Megan Policastro from the Department of Surgery, and Sunil Asnani, MD and Danielle Lann, MD from the Department of Endocrinology, who are all very familiar with this cancer as well.  

For more information on thyroid cancer and the thyroid cancer support group please call  to RSVP for the first meeting to Megan Policastro at 732-776-4394  or visit http://www.thyca.org/sg/nj_neptune.htm

*) Jersey Shore University Medical Center Research Day is June 7, 2011

*) Inauguration Ceremony and Acceptance as the Fellow of American Collage of Endocrinology (FACE). AACE Congress, San Diego, 4/2011 

*) Jersey Shore University Medical Center Research Day was June 1st 2010

*) See cover story featured in July / August 2008 issue of Meridian HealthViews magazine, page 6: "Simplifying Thyroid Surgery" http://www.meridianhealth.com/index.cfm/Publications/index.cfm 

*) "Tired... Forgetful... Could It Be Your…Thyroid?"
Meridian HealthView Magazine publication, Sept/Oct 2007.

*) August 10, 2007, JERSEY SHORE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER PRESENTED PROGRAM ON THYROID CONDITIONS.  "On Monday, August 13, Jersey Shore University Medical Center is hosting a program titled "Diagnosis of Thyroid Conditions and New Surgical Treatments", from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at The Atlantic Club, 1904 Atlantic Avenue, Wall.This program will feature a discussion on the latest methods for diagnosing and treating thyroid conditions through surgery from Alexander Shifrin, M.D., a specialist in endocrine surgery."

*) Acceptance to the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons, ESES Congress, Barcelona, Spain, April 2008: