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NEWS FROM CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE

February 6, 2007

Cambridge Health Alliance Celebrates Staff's Literary Accomplishments at Meet the Authors Event

Caption: (from left) Karen Levine, PhD, Robert Jay Lifton, MD, Dennis D. Keefe, Kathleen Regan, RN, BSN, MHA, and Janna Malamud Smith, MSW (photo courtesy of Cambridge Health Alliance)

On Thursday, January 25, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) hosted a reading, book signing, and reception in celebration of four staff members who published books in the past year:

Janna Malamud Smith, MSW, CHA social worker and author of My Father Is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud;

Robert Jay Lifton, MD, CHA psychiatrist, a leading scholar of the psychological dimensions of war, torture, and political violence, and co-editor of Crimes of War: Iraq;

Karen Levine, PhD, Clinical Director of Autism and Developmental Disabilities at CHA's Center for Child and Adolescent Development and
co-author of Replays: Using Play to Enhance Emotional and Behavioral Development for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders; and

Kathleen Regan, RN, BSN, MHA, nurse manager of CHA's Child Assessment Unit and author of Opening Our Arms: Helping Troubled Kids Do Well.

CHA Chief Executive Officer Dennis D. Keefe hosted the festivities, which took place at The Cambridge Hospital campus at CHA and were free and open to the public.

Cambridge Health Alliance is a regional healthcare system with three hospitals and more than twenty primary care practices in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston's metro-North communities. As a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance offers medical residency/training programs and undergraduate learning experiences in hospital and community settings. Cambridge Health Alliance also includes the Cambridge Public Health Department, CHA Physicians Organization (CHAPO), and Network Health, a managed Medicaid plan.