Monday Night 3/21/2005- Special Guest Chat Announcement

[Guest guest]

Be sure to mark your calendars for this very special chat.

Dr. JoEllen Habas from Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque, NM will be our

special guest on Monday evening - 3/21/2005 - from 9 PM to 10 PM Eastern at

the MDA Mito Chat. We anticipate many participants and questions, thus we

will use the following format. We realize that the format is somewhat strict

but this allows us to have order and to make our guest comfortable. If you

are coming to view the chat and not ask a question - please log off and log

back in as a " guest " . This will allow the maximum number of people who have

questions the opportunity. If you have asked a question and it has been

answered, please log off and log back in as a guest so that others have the

opportunity to enter the chat. The chat allows a certain number of

participants and when we exceed that number, no one else is allowed to

enter.

As you enter the room, you will be given a number which will be openly given

on the chat site. That number is sequential thus in the order you entered.

When your number comes up, you may ask one question and only one question

will be open for the doctor at a time. When she has completed answering the

question the next person in the sequential order will be allowed to post

their question. You will be notified by private message when it is your turn

to ask your question just prior to the time to post it. You might find it

helpful to have pre-posted the question in preparation for entering but be

very careful not to hit the send key until you have been given clearance to

do so. Please post your question in ALL CAPS as this will help Dr. Habas

recognize each new question. In this case - it will not be considered

shouting. When our guest has completed answering the question she will post

a " ? " to let us know that she is ready for the next question to be asked.

Please reserve this chat for questions to be asked of our guest only. It is

a very special gift of time and expertise that the guest is offering us and

we need to treat our guest with respect. If you wish to chat with someone in

the room, please go to the private chat and communicate.

Anyone who violates the instructions will receive a warning. If a second

warning is necessary, the person will lose their privilege to be in the chat

and will be removed. We hope that we don't find it necessary to do this.

The chat transcript will be available on the MDA website as soon as it has

been edited by Dr. Habas and the MDA Chat Administrator. Sometimes this

takes a considerable amount of time as these individuals are very busy. We

ask for your patience while this is being prepared. We are very happy you

have joined us tonight and hope you enjoy this special chat session. We also

express our gratitude to Dr. Habas for being with us tonight.

Dr. Habas is board certified in both Endocrinology and Internal Medicine.

She graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She

completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Downstate Medical Center

in Brooklyn, NY and a fellowship in Endocrinology at Columbia University in

New York City.

Following her residency and fellowship training, Dr. Habas spent seven years

in private practice in Greenwich, CT, where she was on the faculty of

Greenwich Hospital's Yale University affiliated Internal Medicine Residency

training program. She was lured to the Southwest and for the past eight

years has worked with the Indian Health Service first in Oklahoma and most

recently in New Mexico with a focus on Type 2 Diabetes and the Metabolic

Syndrome.

To register/sign in and join in the chats..

Go to http://database.azstarnet.com/dynamic/plsql/mdachat25

There is more than 1 chat thus you will need to click on the arrow for the

drop down menu & choose the mitochondrial chat.

If you need to adjust your time for chatting please go to

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

Alice

--

No virus found in this outgoing message.

Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.

Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.3 - Release Date: 3/15/2005