Category: Journal Club

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FLG Journal Club Follow-Up

We had another great turnout for Journal Club this week! Thank you to everyone who was able to join us! It was a great discussion about organ donation, which become ever-more challenging, and fraught, issue!

As an unexpected treat, Dr. Peter Colosi was in town and joined us for Journal Club. As a true expert on brain death and organ donation, he helped deepen the discussion and was kind enough to provide a list of helpful resources…

Stay tuned for our next Journal Club date, coming soon!

Resources

Essay by Dr. Colosi at Our Sunday Visitor

Essay by Dr. Heidi Kessig

Dr. Kessig’s Website

…and her YouTube channel…

A talk by Dr. Colosi on brain death

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FLG Journal Club – June 23, 2026

We are happy to announce that our next FLG Journal Club!

While certainly not required, if you would like to volunteer to contribute to the refreshment table, please sign up here.

Our February FLG Journal Club was a huge success! We had a mix of professional backgrounds, both from within healthcare and from other walks of life, which led to an interesting and robust discussion.

Our goal is to make our Journal Club discussions accessible to everyone, so please join us!

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As some (visual) background, here’s a schematic of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (not the locations of the clamps)

Reference: Alamouti-Fard E, Garg P, Wadiwala I J, et al. (June 29, 2022) Normothermic Regional Perfusion is an Emerging Cost-Effective Alternative in Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) in Heart Transplantation. Cureus 14(6): e26437. doi:10.7759/cureus.26437

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Journal Club – February 26

We are pleased to announce that the Finger Lakes Guild of the CMA will be hosting Journal Club on February 26, 2026 at St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry (map) from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Light refreshments will be provided.

We will be discussing a recent article in JAMA Internal Medicine reporting on clinical “nudges” in the ICU. In this case, the “nudges” were meant to remind ICU clinicians to offer a comfort-only approach to patients and their families who had been intubated for at least 48 hours. While on the surface this seems rather harmless, we will discuss practical and moral issues related to such interventions, their goals, and outcomes.

If you are planning to attend, please let us know so we can plan refreshments. However, you are welcome to join us whether or not you are able to RSVP.

We hope to see you there!

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Virtual Journal Club…Success!

Thank you to everyone how made last night’s Virtual Journal Club discussing NFP a resounding success! We two wonderful presenters (Felix Rodriguez and Anne Olek) and we were both blessed and humbled to be joined by the authors of the paper, Dr. Fehring and Dr. Manhart!

We had a great turnout and appreciate everyone’s engagement. Lots of insightful questions and discussion!

We are planning to host VJCs quarterly, so stay turned for us to announce the Fall/Winter date!

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Cross-Guild Virtual Journal Club!

“The Finger Lakes Guild of Rochester, New York and the Palm Beach Physicians Guild of Florida are happy to announce an exciting new way to connect in these challenging times. Building on the successful initiative first launched in New York, the guilds are collaborating with the national CMA office to offer all guilds the new Virtual Journal Club…” continued

VIRTUAL JOURNAL CLUB (Sign up here!)

Natural Family Planning and Marital Chastity: The Effects of Periodic Abstinence on Marital Relationships
Journal: The Linacre Quarterly
Authors: Fehring, R. J., & Manhart, M. D. 

• Connect with fellow CMA members across the country
• Discuss timely topics relevant to living the Catholic faith while practicing in an increasingly secular world
• Inspire colleagues to join your local Guild and the CMA by “bringing” them along

Join us on August 6, 2020 at 7 p.m.
https://www.fingerlakescma.org/virtual-journal-club-sign-up/

Thank you especially to St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry for making Virtual Journal Club available via Zoom!

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Journal Club 1/16/20 – Update

The Guild’s next Journal Club will be on January 16, 2020 at St. Bernard’s from 7 to 8:30pm.

The session will be led by Dr. Ontiveros, who one of our dedicated Board members (you can check out the cool stuff he does for his day job here).

Dr. Ontiveros will be leading the discussion on:

Organ Donation and Declaration of Death: Combined Neurologic and Cardiopulmonary Standards by Doran and Vukov, which is from the most recent edition of the Linacre.

Please contact us here and we will be happy to send you a PDF of the article before the meeting.

Please feel free to join us for what promises to be an interesting discussion whether or not you are able to review the article beforehand!

Remote Video Conference Option

If you are not able to join us in person, please consider joining via video conference.  This will be hosted via Zoom with the following connection methods:

iPhone one-tap: (US Toll): +16468769923,,803588247# or +16699006833,,803588247#
Meeting URL: https://urmc.zoom.us/j/803588247
Join by Telephone
Dial: +1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)
+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 803 588 247
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Journal Club Last Night

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our quarterly Journal Club yesterday evening!

We had a great turnout with wide-ranging and inspiring discussion about the technocratic influences in medicine and our society in general.

Ultimately we agree that we can perhaps occasionally fight the ‘big fight’ against such dehumanizing forces…and…we must never lose sight of the ways in which we can, in our everyday lives, intentionally maintain/restore human connections.

Again, thank you to everyone who was able to make it last night. We will be announcing our next Journal Club date and topic soon, so stay tuned!