The DIG at Vanderbilt has been working on the Miles for Melanoma project based on the one at Drexel University. They have organized a project here at Vanderbilt and have raised a significant amount of money. This was discussed at the DIGA meeting in New Orleans. We can do this at our school to to be involved in the national effort.
Miles for Melanoma is a charity fundraiser where we have representative run marathons, half marathons, etc. to raise awareness for melanoma and to raise money for the Melanoma Research Foundation. For more information, please visit www.melanoma.org.
To begin this project at our school, the first thing we need to do is prepare an organizing committee. Then recruit runners (generally medical students), contact the marathon to inform them of your intent to have represntative run for our cause (check the marathon websites for contact information; for our marathon, for example, it was okay to use the name of the marathon on our brochures, but not the logo), contact Bill Marsch from the Melanoma Research Foundation (wrmarsch@earthlink.net) to inform him of your interest, prepare a brochure (attached, you would have to make a few minor changes such as the name of your race), and distribute them to your community. For more information about the project at Vanderbilt, please visit the activities link on the Vanderbilt Website.
The cities with marathons for our schools follows. Some of the dates have already passed and some are not until next year.
Emory - Atlanta, GA (11/24/2005)
Case Western & NEOUCOM - Cleveland, OH (5/22/2005)
Ohio State - Columbus, OH (10/16/2005)
UTSW - Dallas, TX (5/15/2005)
Duke - Durham, NC (none)
UT Galveston - Galveston, TX (none)
Dartmouth - Hanover, NH (4/18/2005--Boston)
Indiana - Indianapolis, IN (10/15/2005)
UC Irvine - Irvine, CA (3/6/2006--Los Angeles)
Vanderbilt - Nashville, TN (4/30/2005)
SUNY, Stony Brook - New York, NY (11/6/2005)
Drexel - Philadelphia, PA (11/21/2005)
UCSF - San Francisco, CA (7/31/2005)
St. Louis, MO (4/9/2005).
The University of Texas Medical Branch Dermatology Interest Group (UTMB DIG) is a resource for medical students interested in Dermatology as well as for dermatologists and residents.
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